We know positive social support can improve our capacity to cope with stress. But right now we’re being asked to keep our distance from others to minimise the spread of the virus. Many people are facing periods of enforced isolation if they are believed to have COVID-19 or have been in contact with someone who has.
Pretty much every South African event for the foreseeable future has been cancelled by the coronavirus outbreak but it’s always sad to get confirmation of that fact. Comic Con Africa’s Cape Town event has been cancelled, and there’s no follow-up planned this year. Well, bugger.
Now more than ever before, the stakes are getting higher in professional gaming. E-sports should be taken seriously as both an occupation and a form of leisure. Riot Games, the developers of desktop juggernaut League of Legends, is even taking the game into Monday Night Football territory with its own weekday broadcast of the game’s major tournament.
News and views about coronavirus has spread via social media in a way that no health emergency has done before.
Platforms like Twitter, Facebook, Tik Tok and Instagram have played critical roles in sharing news and information, but also in disseminating rumours and misinformation.
The world is changing, whether we like it or not. Social events around the world are being postponed or cancelled…
As the coronavirus pandemic spreads around the world, it’s a good time to understand how cleaning can help prevent the spread of disease and what you can do to cut the risk of infection in your home.
Social media feels so much like a space that is owned by its users that it’s easy to forget that…
To slow the spread of coronavirus we’re being told to wash our hands more, preferably with soap and water, or failing that, with hand sanitisers. The resulting rush to buy hand sanitisers has led to empty shelves in supermarkets and chemists. But it hasn’t taken long for recipes for hand sanitisers to appear online. But do they work?
Just the other day Stuff reported that Nintendo and LEGO were teasing a crossover, throwing the springy Italian plumber into…
Because in this strange, obviously absurdist timeline wherein we find ourselves living it can only be logical to assume that…