I recently reread the Grimm brothers’ Hansel and Gretel, a fairy tale I was familiar with as a child. This time round, I became aware of how invaluable the story is as life lessons for everyone who reads it, regardless of age. Here we have a brother and sister who come across a house in […] […]
Medea’s Weekly Tonic for Mind Body & Soul: Fairy Tales — Rosalind Medea — Life & Soul Magazine
Games are a powerful medium for everyone to learn life skills, yet the characterisation in games – a bias towards white male characters – appeals only to a fraction of worldwide gamers. The need for diversity of characters has been the subject of frequent debate around the mainstream gaming industry. While those talks have been… Diverse […]
Diverse Games: The Rise of Africa’s Gaming Industry — Medea’s Media — Life & Soul Magazine
The back story of video game character, Niuma – the first superheroine with Albinism from West Africa – is the subject of a new comic book, Blind Frontier: Niuma’s Tale. The story follows the adventures of Niuma and her struggles with nystagmus, involuntary movement of the eyes. Like all children in Wadis City, Niuma dreams […]
Niuma’s Tale: Comic chronicles the story of West African superheroine with albinism — Life & Soul Magazine
The elements – fire, water, earth and air – are the focus of Pixar Animation Studios’ upcoming movie, Elemental. The film journeys alongside two characters, Ember and Wade, a fire elemental and a water elemental live in “a city where fire, water, land, and air-residents all live together”. The fiery young woman, Ember, and the […]
Elemental: Pixar’s upcoming movie tells the story of two city-living elements, Ember and Wade — Life & Soul Magazine
New Zealand-based artist Swiftmantis has been adorning walls in the North Island with stunning murals of cats. The large scale portraits are part of Swiftmantis’ Stray Stories, which tell the stories of stray cats who have found their forever-homes in interesting places. Among the stories that have been making crowds smile is Hangar the Cat on St […]
Swiftmantis: Cat murals tell stories of strays in New Zealand — Life & Soul Magazine
Prosearium is an initiative to increase the participation of African women in game development by documenting 1,000 women of all backgrounds and their experiences creating and contributing to games. The Prosearium website aims to be a “digital garden of experiences” documenting African women’s experience in game development. Founded by South Africa-based game developer and community […]
Prosearium: “Digital garden of experiences” aims to increase presence of African women in game development — Life & Soul Magazine
Energy is fluid and since each and everyone of us is energy, that too makes us fluid. That awareness will shine a light this week on areas of your life that have perhaps become stagnant or inflexible. Are there things that you are doing based upon the beliefs, thoughts, fears and expectations that had your […] […]
Medea’s Weekly Tonic for Mind, Body & Soul: Fluidity — Rosalind Medea — Life & Soul Magazine
Artist Derick Fabian creates character designs inspired by graffiti art, anime, and Sanrio such as Hello Kitty. Everything from “simple and cute to the more detailed and cool style”, the Hawai’i-based artist is not afraid to follow through on what he is intuitively guided. The 7Sketches founder says: “I illustrate characters. From simple and cute […]
7Sketches: Hawaiian artist Derick Fabian “just goes for it” after years attempting to combine art with “something sensible” — Life & Soul Magazine
Solar Paint – a paint that you can apply to your roof, your walls, or your solar panels to generate extra electricity – has been developed by a research team at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology. The solar paint generates clean hydrogen fuel from sunlight and moisture in the air. By collecting water vapour […]
Solar paint generating renewable energy — Life & Soul Magazine
The Fifth Element is a superhero comic book series with a Zambian teen female lead who battles to save the planet from climate change. The Fifth Element series follows the adventures of 14-year-old superhero Quintessa, a 10th grader in Lusaka, Zambia, whose goal is to fight climate change. The comic book series was launched in […]
The Fifth Element: Comic book sees young female lead fight climate change in Zambia — Life & Soul Magazine
Salt Lake City-based startup, Halcium, is working on a small-scale wind turbine designed as a standalone renewable energy system for individual homes or buildings. Known as the PowerPod, the portable renewable energy device, which has no external moving parts, is a 1 kW wind turbine that potentially produces 3x more power than a regular turbine. […]
PowerPod: Small-scale wind turbine designed to be a standalone renewable energy system — Life & Soul Magazine
Accumulating toys and new playthings is pretty much inevitable over the Christmas and summer holidays. We all like to reward and treat our kids and provide them with fun and educational sources of entertainment. And toys and playtime are an essential part of the growth and development of our children. But giving our little ones […] […]
How to declutter your children’s toy collection — TerraCycle News — Life & Soul Magazine
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