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Peace

U.S. athletes fight racism on and off the sports field

Rebellion is growing, from Minneapolis, where demands to defund the police radiate globally from the site of George Floyd's murder, to cities nationwide where monuments to Confederate generals, colonizers and others are being torn down. Some decry this onrushing change: corrupt police unions dismiss the violence their members wreak with…

bubmagJune 25, 2020

NOAA

NASA Awards NOAA’s Space Weather Follow On-Lagrange 1 Spacecraft

On behalf of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), NASA has awarded a delivery order under the Rapid Spacecraft Acquisition III (Rapid III) contract to Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp. of Boulder, Colorado, for the Space Weather Follow On-Lagrange 1 (SWFO-L1) spacecraft.Read More

bubmagJune 25, 2020

Self-driving Vehicles

Waymo, Volvo partner to develop electric robotaxis

Waymo’s self-driving software footprint is expanding — this time in a partnership with Volvo Car Group. The two companies announced Thursday an “exclusive” partnership to integrate Waymo’s self-driving software into a new electric vehicle designed for ride-hailing. Volvo and Waymo provided few details on the partnership and what this might…

bubmagJune 25, 2020

Global Warming

Global pollution estimates reveal surprises, opportunity

Calculated trends in geophysical PM2.5 values from 1998–2018. Warm colors indicate positive trends, cool colors indicate negative trends and the opacity of the colors indicates the statistical significance of the trends. Credit: Martin Lab It is not unusual to come across headlines about pollution or global warming and find that…

bubmagJune 25, 2020

Elon Musk

After Telling Staff That Working During Pandemic Was Voluntary, Tesla Reportedly Sent Termination Notices

Photo: Justin Sullivan (Getty Images)Some Tesla workers who were originally informed they were not “obligated” to show up for shifts at the company’s Fremont, California production facility as it reopened during the coronavirus pandemic have in fact received termination notices, the Washington Post reported on Thursday.Tesla employees Carlos Gabriel and…

bubmagJune 25, 2020

Hrant Dink

THE LETTERS, TREATIES, AND COVENANTS OF THE PROPHET MUHAMMAD

THE LETTERS, TREATIES, AND COVENANTS OF THE PROPHET MUHAMMAD SPECIAL ISSUE “THE LETTERS, TREATIES, AND COVENANTS OF THE PROPHET MUHAMMAD” Special Issue Editors Special Issue Information Published Papers A special issue of Religions (ISSN 2077-1444). Deadline for manuscript submissions: 1 January 2021. SHARE THIS SPECIAL ISSUE SPECIAL ISSUE EDITORDr. John Andrew Morrow Website1 Website2Guest Editor The Covenants…

bubmagJune 25, 2020

Korean War

Time for a Korean Solution to Ending the Korean War

Editor's Note: As the world commemorates the 70th anniversary of the start of the Korean War, the Center for the National Interest’s Korean Studies team decided to ask dozens of the world’s top experts a simple question: Do you believe that the Korean War will finally come to an end before its next major…

bubmagJune 25, 2020

Korean War

Why the Korean War Won’t End Anytime Soon

Editor's Note: As the world commemorates the 70th anniversary of the start of the Korean War, the Center for the National Interest’s Korean Studies team decided to ask dozens of the world’s top experts a simple question: Do you believe that the Korean War will finally come to an end before its next major…

bubmagJune 25, 2020

eSports

Spirit, Na’Vi reach playoffs at WePlay! Clutch Island

Team Spirit and Natus Vincere claimed the final two playoff spots with victories on Thursday during Stage 3 of the $50,000 WePlay! Clutch Island online event. Spirit swept ESPADA 2-0 in the Group A decider match, and Na’Vi did the same to Gambit Youngsters in Group B. Both winners advanced…

bubmagJune 25, 2020

Korean War

Korea, Huawei, And The China Problem

Seventy years ago today North Korean troops and tanks poured across the 38th parallel into South Korea, stunning and nearly overwhelming America and the West as an incipient Cold War suddenly grew dangerously hot. Today we are proud to remember the veterans of the Korean War and those who made the…

bubmagJune 25, 2020

U.S. athletes fight racism on and off the sports field

NASA Awards NOAA’s Space Weather Follow On-Lagrange 1 Spacecraft

Waymo, Volvo partner to develop electric robotaxis

Global pollution estimates reveal surprises, opportunity

After Telling Staff That Working During Pandemic Was Voluntary, Tesla Reportedly Sent Termination Notices

THE LETTERS, TREATIES, AND COVENANTS OF THE PROPHET MUHAMMAD

Time for a Korean Solution to Ending the Korean War

Why the Korean War Won’t End Anytime Soon

Spirit, Na’Vi reach playoffs at WePlay! Clutch Island

Korea, Huawei, And The China Problem

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