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NOAA

NASA’s Suomi NPP satellite highlights California wildfires at night

NOAA-NASA's Suomi NPP was able to image this nighttime image of the California fires on Aug. 20, 2020. This image does not have the Visible Fire Product active showing the outline of the fires. City lights are scattered in this image by smoke. Fires are noted. Credit: NOAA/NASA/William Straka U…

bubmagAugust 21, 2020

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Ozone across northern hemisphere increased over past 20 years

Credit: CC0 Public Domain In a first-ever study using ozone data collected by commercial aircraft, researchers from the Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES) at the University of Colorado Boulder found that levels of the pollutant in the lowest part of Earth's atmosphere have increased across the Northern…

bubmagAugust 21, 2020

Greta Thunberg

Ban Yachts

It’s been a big week for yacht news. Yesterday, white supremacist shirt-layering aficionado Steve Bannon was arrested on a $28 million, 150-foot yacht in Connecticut for defrauding donors to his Build the Wall crowdfunding page.* Also yesterday, Politico reported that the boat from which Evangelical Liberty University President Jerry Falwell…

bubmagAugust 21, 2020

Spanish Flu

Pandemic could be over in less than two years

The World Health Organization hopes the coronavirus crisis will be over in less than two years, according to WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus. The Spanish flu that affected the world back in 1918 took two years to end, he said. "Our situation now with more technology, of course with more connectiveness, the…

bubmagAugust 21, 2020

Obamacare

Health Care Reform Is Being Slashed Into Oblivion

If one issue dominated the Democratic presidential primaries this cycle, it was health care. Bernie Sanders’s Medicare for All proposal set a standard that other candidates vied to match while simultaneously striving to not commit to as generous a plan. Debate moderators asked endless variations of the same question: How…

bubmagAugust 21, 2020

VR

Iron Man VR update adds free New Game+ mode today

Plus new weapons, improved loading, and more. If Iron Man VR isn't quite metal enough for you in its base state, you might want to prep your excitement nodules; it's getting a New Game+ mode - and a bunch of other addition - as part of a free update arriving on…

bubmagAugust 21, 2020

NATO

Senators suspect cover-up in PhilHealth roof leak

Senators suspect cover-up in PhilHealth roof leak MANILA, Philippines — Senators have expressed suspicion that the roof leak in one of the Philippine Health Insurance Corp. (PhilHealth) offices in the Ilocos Region, which allegedly damaged computers and other equipment, was intentional and part of efforts to cover up the reported…

bubmagAugust 21, 2020

Google

Giant Google Pixel 5 leak seals the deal

The Google Pixel 5 just leaked in a very big way. This device was shown in renderings made from CAD drawings of the device, showing the device front, back, and sides. This view of the device essentially shares the entirety of the smartphone’s secrets, including camera placement, display size, fingerprint…

bubmagAugust 21, 2020

NSA

Pro-Abortion Group EMILY’s List Helped Fund Attack Ads to Boost Kris Kobach in Kansas GOP Senate Primary

Former Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach talks about the Kansas voter ID law in Topeka, Kansas, May 12, 2016. (Dave Kaup/Reuters) The pro-abortion group EMILY’s List and a PAC run by allies of Senator Chuck Schumer (D., N.Y.) funded a Democrat-linked PAC that attempted to boost Kris Kobach in…

bubmagAugust 21, 2020

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Science foundation discusses funding giant Hawaii telescope

Updated 10:28 am CDT, Friday, August 21, 2020 FILE - This July 14, 2019, file photo, shows a telescope at the summit of Mauna Kea, Hawaii's tallest mountain. The National Science Foundation has launched an informal outreach to Hawaii about possible funding efforts for the stalled Thirty Meter Telescope project. The…

bubmagAugust 21, 2020

NASA’s Suomi NPP satellite highlights California wildfires at night

Ozone across northern hemisphere increased over past 20 years

Ban Yachts

Pandemic could be over in less than two years

Health Care Reform Is Being Slashed Into Oblivion

Iron Man VR update adds free New Game+ mode today

Senators suspect cover-up in PhilHealth roof leak

Giant Google Pixel 5 leak seals the deal

Pro-Abortion Group EMILY’s List Helped Fund Attack Ads to Boost Kris Kobach in Kansas GOP Senate Primary

Science foundation discusses funding giant Hawaii telescope

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