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What the Elders Called the “Between Place”: Hypnagogia, Ancestor Visitation, and the African Science of the Dream State You are not quite asleep. You are not quite awake. Your body has stilled but your awareness has not—it has simply changed channels.... https://ubuntuvillageusa.org/african-dream-traditions-ancestor-visitation-2/ #African_dream_traditions #African_science #Akan_spirituality #ancestor_visitation #ancestral_healing #Black_mental_health #consciousness #decolonizing_wellness #dream_states #hypnagogia #Igbo_Chi #liminal_space #ubuntu_village #Yoruba_cosmology
African scientists and technology could drive future black hole discoveries
The Milky Way above a single MeerKAT antenna in the Northern Cape Province of South Africa. Inset: EHT image of the Milky Way black hole. SARAO, EHT Roger Deane, University of the Witwatersrand and Iniyan Natarajan, University of the Witwatersrand Astronomers have revealed the first image of the black hole at the centre of our galaxy, the Milky Way. The image was produced by the Event Horizon…
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Scientific Journals Accused of Behaving Badly
Scientific Journals Accused of Behaving Badly
I discussed peer review in my previous post, and immediately came across an article on “Predatory Publishing” (Science, 367, p 129). They report that six out of ten articles published in a sample of what they call “predatory” journals received no citations, i.e. nobody published a further paper referring to the work in these papers. The only reasonable inference that could be taken from what…
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Science Must Grow Young Advocates if it Wants to Connect With the Real World
Science Must Grow Young Advocates if it Wants to Connect With the Real World
by Tolullah Oni
Science needs more “academic hybrids”: scientists who buck the stereotype of working in silos. This way of thinking must be broken if the narrative around the reality of science’s role in improving society for future generations is to change.
Education will be the key to smashing this stereotype, as will the creation of advocates – ordinary people who grasp just how important…
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Science needs to start speaking to people’s everyday lives in Africa
Science needs to start speaking to people’s everyday lives in Africa
There have been wide-ranging reactions from the scientific community after a South African university student called for “Western” science to be eradicated. By Marina Joubert
The young woman argued that science “is a product of western modernity” and suggested that decolonisation would begin with the introduction of “knowledge that is produced by us, that speaks to us and that is able to…
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