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On Becoming a Guinea Fowl review: A fierce, acerbic Zambian comedy-drama about community

Mashable Tech

The second feature by Zambian-Welsh director Rungano Nyoni, On Becoming a Guinea Fowl is a brilliantly wry film of funeral traditions and familial idiosyncrasies. From there on out, On Becoming a Guinea Fowl sweeps through its mere 99 minutes with clamorous force. What is On Becoming a Guinea Fowl about?

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Amazon is letting employees use their stock to finance home purchases and even second homes

TechCrunch

percentage points above the market rate, depending on how the down payment is structured.” While Amazon may be its test guinea pig, Better is aiming to make Equity Unlocker available nationwide for employees of public and private companies. Want more fintech news in your inbox? Sign up here.

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Listen to Your Data: Lessons from a Multilingual Text Message Campaign

NTEN

What's hard is finding a customer who wants to be a guinea pig as we explore new avenues of outreach. Throughout their campaign, they've tested everything – from what time you should call your legislators to the best way to structure a text message – in English and in Spanish.

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Heat Listed

The Verge

By the early 1920s, Austin was a residential haven for upwardly mobile families, with structures designed by architects such as Frederick Schock and Frank Lloyd Wright. Unbeknownst to McDaniel, he was a sort of guinea pig, one of the first individuals to be put on Chicago’s “heat list.”.

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Worst of Museums for this Decade

Museum 2.0

Djupdraet (@mdjupdraet) December 9, 2019 Instead museums found themselves at the mercy of the next big thing and the whims of tech firms: Being big tech guinea pigs: We end up with unsustainable shiny tech and then just feel used. If museums actually did change their fundamental structures change might happened but so many are not.

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Reflections on the Science Center World Congress

Museum 2.0

They are places outside our daily lives--the Arctic, Papau New Guinea--and are easy, in some ways, to ignore or forget. We need to create some collaborative structures (probably on the web) for continued dialogue and mutual support. The same is true for the political and educational challenges threatening science education worldwide.

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Nigerian fintech Appzone raises $10M for expansion and proprietary technology

TechCrunch

However , they seem to be doing quite well compared with traditional banks that face challenges like legacy cost structures and a major lack of operational efficiency. Other countries with a presence include the Democratic Republic of Congo, Ghana, Gambia, Guinea, Tanzania and Senegal. Appzone is a fintech software provider.