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Belfast

Full Colour: An Irish Street Art Story

Full Colour is a documentary about the street art communities of Dublin and Belfast created by Dublin native Harry Moylan. “Why do these artists make art? How does street art evolve in a city? It covers many topics including the old political murals and evolution of the modern street art scene…

bubmagMay 12, 2020

Turkish Refugee Camp

The Humanitarian Works of Shigeru Ban

The Humanitarian Works of Shigeru Ban Cardboard Cathedral. Image © Stephen Goodenough 2014 Pritzker Laureate Shigeru Ban may be as well known for his innovative use of materials as for his compassionate approach to design. For a little over three decades, Ban, the founder of the Voluntary Architects Network, has…

bubmagMay 12, 2020

Exoskeleton

How AI is Changing the Mobility Landscape

Click here to learn more about Gilad David Maayan. There are a significant number of investments in the automotive industry nowadays. The majority of these investments focus on artificial intelligence (AI) and the optimization of self-driving technology. Meanwhile, new mobility systems and players are making their way into the automotive…

bubmagMay 12, 2020

Animal Protection

Covid-19 and the true cost of wildlife exploitation

NEW DELHI: Wildlife trade has become big business and the subsequent exploitation of wild animals puts our health, economies and biodiversity at risk, says World Animal Protection as they launch a campaign today targeting G20 leaders to support a permanent wildlife trade ban to protect wildlife and prevent future zoonotic…

bubmagMay 12, 2020

Space Debris

Russia admits, yup, the Americans are right: One of our rocket’s tanks just disintegrated in Earth’s orbit

Russian rocket tanks used to launch a radio telescope have broken up into 65 chunks, littering Earth’s orbit with debris. The tanks, dumped from the Fregat-SB upper stage of the Zenit-3SLBF rocket that took the Spektr-R radio telescope into orbit in 2011, disintegrated on Friday, Roscosmos said on Sunday. “According…

bubmagMay 12, 2020

Brexit

‘Foretaste’ of Brexit: Virus cuts off much of UK farm labor

View photosIn this May 5, 2020, photo, workers prepare apple trees for soaking ahead of planting at Stocks Farm in Suckley, Worcestershire. Britain’s fruit and vegetable farmers have long worried that the exit from the European Union would keep out the tens of thousands of Eastern European workers who come…

bubmagMay 12, 2020

Green Deal

France ready to welcome back car industry in exchange for state aid

The Capitals brings you the latest news from across Europe, through on-the-ground reporting by EURACTIV’s media network. You can subscribe to the newsletter here. Before you start reading today’s edition of the Capitals, the EURACTIV family is reaching out to you, the reader. As news revenue has been heavily impacted…

bubmagMay 12, 2020

Black Swan

Quarantine culture report: Louis Armstrong is trending. Billie Eilish is not

Culture mavens under quarantine are embracing jazz and classical music, Russian literature, and science-fiction films.And they’re ditching electronic music and buddy movies.According to a new report by recommendation engine TasteDive, interest in jazz trumpeter Louis Armstrong is up almost 19% from the pre-quarantine days, while singer Billie Eilish’s stock is…

bubmagMay 12, 2020

Black Hole

The Unexpected Reason Why The Smallest Black Holes Bend Space The Most

An illustration of heavily curved spacetime for a point mass, which corresponds to the physical... scenario of being located outside the event horizon of a black hole. As you get closer and closer to the mass's location in spacetime, space becomes more severely curved, eventually leading to a location from…

bubmagMay 12, 2020

Biological Warfare

Covid-19 — a conspiracy or retribution?

Daud Khan is a retired UN staff based in Rome. He has degrees in economics from LSE and Oxford, where he was a Rhodes Scholar Leila Yasmine Khan is an independent writer in the Netherlands. She has … Read More

bubmagMay 12, 2020

Full Colour: An Irish Street Art Story

The Humanitarian Works of Shigeru Ban

How AI is Changing the Mobility Landscape

Covid-19 and the true cost of wildlife exploitation

Russia admits, yup, the Americans are right: One of our rocket’s tanks just disintegrated in Earth’s orbit

‘Foretaste’ of Brexit: Virus cuts off much of UK farm labor

France ready to welcome back car industry in exchange for state aid

Quarantine culture report: Louis Armstrong is trending. Billie Eilish is not

The Unexpected Reason Why The Smallest Black Holes Bend Space The Most

Covid-19 — a conspiracy or retribution?

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