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Solar Storm

NASA announces new mission to study solar particle storms with satellites the size of toaster ovens

NASA announces new mission to study solar particle storms, with six small satellites the size of toaster ovens that will orbit Earth and measure radiation from the sunNASA has announced a new project to study dangerous solar particle stormsThe project will launch no earlier than July 1, 2023 at a…

bubmagMarch 31, 2020

Elon Musk

Tesla Cybertruck may have 600,000-plus preorders to its name

Approximately 622,000 and counting. Tesla I'd say Tesla literally took the internet by storm when the Cybertruck entered this world back in November. Since then, Tesla has only dropped small bits of information on the electric pickup truck, but the internet has perhaps given us a big update.Thanks to a…

bubmagMarch 31, 2020

NASDAQ

Stocks post worst quarter since 2008 financial crisis

The first quarter of 2020 ended with a whimper — with the Dow Jones Industrial Average, S&P 500 and Nasdaq posting their worst quarter in decades — as the COVID-19 pandemic continues to cause uncertainty and volatility across all major stock market indices. At the beginning of the quarter, we…

bubmagMarch 31, 2020

Refugees

At Kalindi Kunj Camp: Living amid medical waste, these refugees don’t fear virus, only hunger

Written by Anand Mohan J | New Delhi | Updated: April 1, 2020 2:15:25 pm A heap of medical waste in blue bags at Sharan Vihar, New Delhi. Express Photo by Anand Mohan J“The one who collects the maximum number of syringes wins the game,” shouted 11-year-old Irshad as he…

bubmagMarch 31, 2020

Black Hole

Hubble finds best evidence for elusive mid-sized black hole

Astronomers have found the best evidence for the perpetrator of a cosmic homicide: a black hole of an elusive class known as "intermediate-mass," which betrayed its existence by tearing apart a wayward star that passed too close. Weighing in at about 50,000 times the mass of our Sun, the black…

bubmagMarch 31, 2020

Cold War

Weaker, later: On Olympics postponement

The postponement is better than cancellation, but Olympics is not on anyone’s mind now Sport at its best is a glorious indulgence that blends adrenaline rush, exultant joy and mind-numbing grief both for the athlete and the expectant fan. However, in its worst form, sport is war minus the shooting…

bubmagMarch 31, 2020

Clearview

Archive.org, Google and Piracy

04-01-2020, 03:59 AM #12 the rook, bossing Never. Posts: 1,596 Karma: 7092040 Join Date: Jun 2017 Location: Ireland Device: Both Kinds: epub based makes and Kindle Quote: Originally Posted by stumped a poll would be interesting but I have no idea how to create one. I am with…

bubmagMarch 31, 2020

Korean War

Wartime Production Law Has Been Used Routinely

You are here: Home / Health Care / Wartime Production Law Has Been Used Routinely March 31, 2020 at 3:57 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment New York Times: “A Korean War-era law called the Defense Production Act has been invoked hundreds of thousands of times by President…

bubmagMarch 31, 2020

Mexico Border Wall

Border wall work in Arizona speeds up, igniting contagion fears

AJO, Arizona — Motels, mobile home camps, and Airbnbs in this small Arizona border town are full up. Work crews stream into eateries for takeout orders. License plates on trucks parked outside the crowded laundromat come from as far away as Alaska.Around the country, some states have cut back on…

bubmagMarch 31, 2020

Jerusalem Controversy

Jerusalem sanitizes stones of Western Wall amid pandemic

How coronavirus is spreading around the world Hundreds of thousands of people from around the world travel to Israel each year to visit the Western Wall in the holy city of Jerusalem. But as cases of coronavirus soar worldwide, the city is taking extra precautionary measures to halt its spread. The…

bubmagMarch 31, 2020

NASA announces new mission to study solar particle storms with satellites the size of toaster ovens

Tesla Cybertruck may have 600,000-plus preorders to its name

Stocks post worst quarter since 2008 financial crisis

At Kalindi Kunj Camp: Living amid medical waste, these refugees don’t fear virus, only hunger

Hubble finds best evidence for elusive mid-sized black hole

Weaker, later: On Olympics postponement

Archive.org, Google and Piracy

Wartime Production Law Has Been Used Routinely

Border wall work in Arizona speeds up, igniting contagion fears

Jerusalem sanitizes stones of Western Wall amid pandemic

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