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An eighty-one-year-old who started playing video games to keep up with her grandchildren now streams to a hundred thousand followers who tune in mostly to hear her commentary. She loses almost every match and says that is the entire appeal. Her grandson runs the camera.
A new study of South African households found that years of rolling blackouts permanently changed how families cook, eat and spend evenings together. Gas stoves, one-pot meals and earlier dinners have stuck around even as the grid has stabilised, and many parents say the candle-lit evenings became the best conversations they'd had in years. The researchers call it an accidental national experiment in slowing down.