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Pikachu

We Live In A World With A Dak Ralter Action Figure, And More Of The Most Unbelievable Toys Of The Week

Welcome back to Toy Aisle, Gizmodo's regular round up of all things toy. This week, we’re catching up on New York Toy Fair with some lovely Star Wars reveals, snoozing with Pikachu, and swinging into action with Spider-Man. But there’s also a truly weird Chia Pet, and K’nex takes on…

bubmagMarch 1, 2020

Bushfire

Rock Star Legend Auctions His Guitars To Aid Australian Wildlife

PARNDANA, AUSTRALIA - FEBRUARY 21: A koala affected by the recent bushfires is released back into ... native bushland following treatment at the Kangaroo Island Wildlife Park on February 21, 2020 in Parndana, Australia. The Kangaroo Island Wildlife Park owned by Sam and Dana Mitchell has treated 600 animals since…

bubmagMarch 1, 2020

Seed Vault

An Update On Microsoft’s ‘GitHub Arctic Vault Program’

Want to read Slashdot from your mobile device? Point it at m.slashdot.org and keep reading! An Update On Microsoft's 'GitHub Arctic Vault Program' (news.com.au) Posted by EditorDavid on Sunday March 01, 2020 @04:34PM from the cold-storage dept. news.com.au reports: The GitHub Arctic Vault program is part of the now Microsoft-owned…

bubmagMarch 1, 2020

Water Pollution

‘Smart’ Pune’s garbage woes flare up again

Despite its claims of being a ‘Smart City’, there seems to be no solution to Pune’s garbage disposal problems with residents of Uruli Devachi and Phursungi villages stopping the civic body’s garbage trucks from dumping waste in the landfill near their villages for the fifth consecutive day on Saturday. The…

bubmagMarch 1, 2020

Economic Bubble

Weekly Commentary: Hair Of The Dog

"U.S. Stocks Tumble 11% in Worst Week Since Crisis," read the Friday evening Bloomberg headline. A Wall Street Journal caption asked the apt question: "U.S. Stocks Were at Records Last Week. What Happened?" A Friday Bloomberg article (Lu Wang) is a reasonable place to start: "It's a stat so shocking…

bubmagMarch 1, 2020

Refugees

Is the European Union facing a new refugee crisis?

Turkey and the European Union are on a new collision course because of the millions of war refugees and migrants it is looking after. Tens of thousands, mostly Syrians exiled in Turkey, are heading towards the borders with Bulgaria and Greece. That's after Turkey eased border controls following the killing…

bubmagMarch 1, 2020

Mass Tourism

Nafplio: Greece’s most beautiful seaside town (on the mainland)

One of the joys of travelling, as we all know, is discovering beautiful places you didn't have a clue about before. For me, Nafplio is such a place. Unlike Greece's most famous seaside towns, it's not on an island, but nestled on the south coast of the Peloponnese peninsula, a…

bubmagMarch 1, 2020

Unwelcome Refugees

Islanders on Lesbos block camp and port as refugee arrivals spike

Lesbos, Greece - Refugees arriving on the island of Lesbos on Sunday told stories suggesting the Turkish government co-opted people smugglers in its policy of ushering asylum seekers west in Europe. A group of 28 Syrians and people of several African nationalities sat on the beach near the Mytilene airport…

bubmagMarch 1, 2020

eSports

Pokémon: Andrew Ding wins Collinsville Regional VGC Masters division

The Collinsville Regional Pokémon Championships took place this weekend. There, Andrew Ding beat former world champion Wolfe Glick 2-1 to win the VGC Masters division.Wolfe Glick is one of the most popular competitive Pokémon players, with 174k subscribers on his YouTube channel. He makes a number of informative videos about…

bubmagMarch 1, 2020

Slavery Abolition

Greg Grandin’s The End of the Myth Tackles Frederick Jackson Turner

James Thornton Harris is a contributing editor to the History News Network. For more information see www.JamesThorntonHarris.com. “History makes what happened comprehensible by reducing events to a dramatic pattern and seeing them in a simple form,” wrote historian Johan Huizinga some one hundred years ago. To establish dramatic patterns for their readers,…

bubmagMarch 1, 2020

We Live In A World With A Dak Ralter Action Figure, And More Of The Most Unbelievable Toys Of The Week

Rock Star Legend Auctions His Guitars To Aid Australian Wildlife

An Update On Microsoft’s ‘GitHub Arctic Vault Program’

‘Smart’ Pune’s garbage woes flare up again

Weekly Commentary: Hair Of The Dog

Is the European Union facing a new refugee crisis?

Nafplio: Greece’s most beautiful seaside town (on the mainland)

Islanders on Lesbos block camp and port as refugee arrivals spike

Pokémon: Andrew Ding wins Collinsville Regional VGC Masters division

Greg Grandin’s The End of the Myth Tackles Frederick Jackson Turner

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