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Nuclear Weapons

N Korea fires more missiles than ever amid coronavirus pandemic

North Korea has fired two suspected ballistic missiles into the ocean off its east coast - according to South Korea and Japan - the latest in a flurry of weapon launches that Seoul decried as "inappropriate" amid the global coronavirus pandemic. Two "short-range projectiles" were launched from the coastal Wonsan…

bubmagMarch 29, 2020

Mass Tourism

Why the travel industry will be stronger and better after coronavirus

March 29, 2020 | 12:30am Enlarge Image American and United Airlines jets are temporarily stored as demand for air travel drops amid the coronavirus outbreak AP The travel industry has been decimated by the coronavirus — with estimates of over $24 billion lost as 825,000 jobs have been wiped out…

bubmagMarch 29, 2020

Cuba Boxing

Knights of Columbus Established (1882)

The Knights of Columbus is the world's largest Catholic fraternal service organization. Founded by Father Michael J. McGivney in New Haven, Connecticut, in 1882, it was named in honor of the mariner Christopher Columbus. Originally serving as a mutual benefit society to working class and immigrant Catholics in the United…

bubmagMarch 29, 2020

Paul Newman

A Mercury Retrograde Mardi Gras by Holiday Mathis

hhd@get.creators.com (Holiday Mathis) If your life were a Mardi Gras parade, what would your float be like? The meetup of the moon and a retrograde Mercury promises surprise themes and happenings for revelers (and lots of lost keys and phones)! Even if you don’t celebrate Fat Tuesday, this is a…

bubmagMarch 29, 2020

Air Pollution

A Dirty Economic Restart Can Be Deadlier Than The Coronavirus

Pedestrians wearing protective masks cross a road in front of an electronic stock board displaying ... the Nikkei 225 Stock Average outside a securities firm in Tokyo, Japan, on Monday, March 2, 2020. Photographer: Kiyoshi Ota/Bloomberg © 2020 Bloomberg Finance LP The coronavirus lockdown hasn’t just slowed the march of…

bubmagMarch 29, 2020

Antarctica

Science News Briefs from around the Planet

Somewhat fresher chicken eggs than the ones discovered from the time of Roman Britain. Credit: Steve MirskyHere are a few brief reports about science and technology from around the planet, including one about the discovery of an intact chicken egg dating to Roman Britain.Hi, I’m Scientific American podcast editor Steve…

bubmagMarch 29, 2020

Slavery Abolition

North has already destroyed itself (2)

By Dele Sobowale NOTE 1: Ordinarily, this page would not carry tables or charts. Those belong on the Business/Economic pages. But part 2 can best be understood by summarising the message in a table. If “a picture is worth a thousand words”, then a table is worth ten thousand words.…

bubmagMarch 29, 2020

Nukes

North Korea fires two projectiles into sea

North Korea on Sunday fired two suspected ballistic missiles into the sea, South Korea said, calling it "very inappropriate" at a time when the world is battling the coronavirus pandemic. South Korea's Joint Chiefs of Staff said it detected the projectiles flying from the North Korean eastern coastal city of…

bubmagMarch 29, 2020

Kim Jong Un

North Korea launches more ballistic missiles into the sea

A woman in Seoul passes a televised broadcast image of North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, March 21. Photo: Jung Yeon-je/AFP via Getty ImagesNorth Korea has fired what appeared to be two short-range ballistic missiles into the ocean off its east coast, officials in Japan and South Korea said Sunday morning…

bubmagMarch 29, 2020

Mass Tourism

Swedish writer Zac O’Yeah, who made India his home decades ago, wonders if this is the end of the road for wanderlust

Updated: March 29, 2020 12:46:17 pm A woman walks outside Castel Sant Angelo, as Italy tightens measures to contain the spread of COVID-19. (Reuters)By Zac O’Yeah I happened to be discussing monkey wrenches with the owner of a tiny hardware kiosk, when I heard the screams, “Corona! Corona!” Being a…

bubmagMarch 29, 2020

N Korea fires more missiles than ever amid coronavirus pandemic

Why the travel industry will be stronger and better after coronavirus

Knights of Columbus Established (1882)

A Mercury Retrograde Mardi Gras by Holiday Mathis

A Dirty Economic Restart Can Be Deadlier Than The Coronavirus

Science News Briefs from around the Planet

North has already destroyed itself (2)

North Korea fires two projectiles into sea

North Korea launches more ballistic missiles into the sea

Swedish writer Zac O’Yeah, who made India his home decades ago, wonders if this is the end of the road for wanderlust

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