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Slavery Abolition

Best alternative ways to hang out with friends over video chat, from karaoke to cook alongs

Just shy of one month into lockdown, the novelty is starting to wear a bit thin – especially when it comes to socialising. Meeting up for Zoom beers or quarantinis over Facetime may have been fun a few weeks ago, but now the jarring interruptions as more than one person…

bubmagApril 17, 2020

Nuclear Disarmament

Jimmy James

Obituaries BMJ 2020; 369 doi: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.m1481 (Published 17 April 2020) Cite this as: BMJ 2020;369:m1481 John Henri James, known as Jimmy, was born in Lusaka (then Northern Rhodesia, now Zambia). He was the youngest son of a Dutch protestant missionary and an English Methodist minister. He was educated in Kingswood…

bubmagApril 17, 2020

Chernobyl

Seth Meyers Questions Trump’s Push to Reopen the Economy

As President Donald Trump rushed forward with guidelines for state government’s to reopen the economy during the coronavirus pandemic on Thursday, Late Night host Seth Meyers wasn’t convinced Americans will be so fast to re-enter everyday life while the health crisis still rages.“I’m still wiping down every piece of mail…

bubmagApril 17, 2020

Matteo Salvini

A Story Idea Each Day for a Month — Day 17

This is the 11th year in a row I’ve run this series in April. Why a story idea each day for the month? Because the best way to come up with a great story idea is to come up with a lot of ideas. And the best way to come…

bubmagApril 17, 2020

Old-Age Poverty

Putting A Gender Lens On COVID-19: Thought Leaders Weigh In

Thought leaders put a gender lens on COVID-19 - Even though the COVID-19 pandemic is viewed primarily as a global health crisis, having claimed over 130,000 lives worldwide, we are only beginning to understand how this pandemic will deeply impact our nation economically, politically, culturally and socially—and how those far-ranging…

bubmagApril 17, 2020

Ukrainian Revolution

Gamaredon APT Group Use Covid-19 Lure in Campaigns

By Hiroyuki Kakara and Erina Maruyama Gamaredon is an advanced persistent threat (APT) group that has been active since 2013. Their campaigns are generally known for targeting Ukrainian government institutions. From late 2019 to February of this year, researchers published several reports on Gamaredon, tracking the group’s activities. In March,…

bubmagApril 17, 2020

Ukrainian Revolution

Gamaredon APT Group Use Covid-19 Lure in Campaigns

By Hiroyuki Kakara and Erina Maruyama Gamaredon is an advanced persistent threat (APT) group that has been active since 2013. Their campaigns are generally known for targeting Ukrainian government institutions. From late 2019 to February of this year, researchers published several reports on Gamaredon, tracking the group’s activities. In March,…

bubmagApril 17, 2020

Ukrainian Revolution

Gamaredon APT Group Use Covid-19 Lure in Campaigns

By Hiroyuki Kakara and Erina Maruyama Gamaredon is an advanced persistent threat (APT) group that has been active since 2013. Their campaigns are generally known for targeting Ukrainian government institutions. From late 2019 to February of this year, researchers published several reports on Gamaredon, tracking the group’s activities. In March,…

bubmagApril 17, 2020

Spanish Flu

To know the real number of coronavirus cases in the US, China, or Italy, researchers say multiply by 10

Coronavirus case totals in China, Italy, and the US could be at least 10 times higher than the reported figures. Many patients likely haven't been identified due to limited testing capacity, testing errors, and difficulty tracing asymptomatic cases.Blood tests could eventually reveal how many people have recovered, but some deaths may…

bubmagApril 17, 2020

Scotland

Tourism in the age of COVID-19: You can now remote control a human tour guide in the Faroe Islands

As tourism around the globe grinds to a halt, the Faroe Islands have come up with a creative way to keep visitors coming: by letting them remote control a human tour guide.Members of the Visit Faroe Islands team—Faroese locals—are walking through the landscape with a live video camera strapped to…

bubmagApril 17, 2020

Best alternative ways to hang out with friends over video chat, from karaoke to cook alongs

Jimmy James

Seth Meyers Questions Trump’s Push to Reopen the Economy

A Story Idea Each Day for a Month — Day 17

Putting A Gender Lens On COVID-19: Thought Leaders Weigh In

Gamaredon APT Group Use Covid-19 Lure in Campaigns

Gamaredon APT Group Use Covid-19 Lure in Campaigns

Gamaredon APT Group Use Covid-19 Lure in Campaigns

To know the real number of coronavirus cases in the US, China, or Italy, researchers say multiply by 10

Tourism in the age of COVID-19: You can now remote control a human tour guide in the Faroe Islands

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