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Moon Mission

NASA Could Get a Raise Next Year to Help Fund a 2024 Human Trip to the Moon

For decades, NASA has been the kid politely asking for a raise in its allowance. Time was NASA’s pocket money was huge. Go back 54 years, to 1966, and the space agency was getting $5.9 billion a year—which would be a tidy $47 billion in 2020 dollars. That represented 4.1%…

bubmagFebruary 18, 2020

Global Warming

Do the climate effects of air pollution impact the global economy?

Aerosol emissions from burning coal and wood are dangerous to human health, but it turns out that by cooling the Earth they also diminish global economic inequality, according to a new study by Carnegie's Yixuan Zheng, Geeta Persad, and Ken Caldeira, along with UC Irvine's Steven Davis. Their findings are…

bubmagFebruary 18, 2020

Times Square

Hatch: Allison Schulnik’s Debut @ P.P.O.W. NYC

P.P.O.W. Galery // February 20, 2020 - March 21, 2020 Blue MountainDesert PincushionFinch NestGin Bowl and TarantulaOld GinPregnant CoyoteRickles #1TarantulaTupelo #1Tupelo #2 Allison Schulnik's paintings, sculptures and animation are among our favorites so it's great to shout out her debut solo exhibition with P.P.O.W this Thursday, February 20th. Her films have been included in…

bubmagFebruary 18, 2020

Climate Change

How your favorite airline can slash its colossal carbon emissions

Waiting for takeoff... Image: Jingying Zhao / Getty Images By Mark Kaufman2020-02-18 17:42:17 UTC If the airline industry were its own country, it would emit more heat-trapping carbon dioxide into the air than nearly every nation on Earth. To quell these prodigious emissions, and to prepare for a future where…

bubmagFebruary 18, 2020

Pikachu

First Teaser Image Of Sword & Shield’s New Mythical Pokemon Released

Sword and Shield's new Mythical Pokemon is Zarude, a Dark/Grass type. As teased, The Pokemon Company unveiled the new monster as part of its Pokemon Day celebration. While few details about it were revealed, The Pokemon Company confirmed Zarude can't be found in Sword and Shield through normal gameplay, and…

bubmagFebruary 18, 2020

Gundam

Oppo publishes the updated road map of ColorOS 7

Last November, the Chinese company Oppo has introduced its new ColorOS 7, the latest version of the proprietary interface based on Android10. After the announcement, the company published the official roadmap and the update appeared on board the first models starting from January. Then the setback and the cause is…

bubmagFebruary 18, 2020

Joker

‘The AGFA Horror Trailer Show’ Will Bring Rare Trailers, Commercials & More to Alamo Drafthouse Theaters

Despite the rise in digital projection, there are still 35mm screenings of new releases, as well as repertory screenings of older movies at select theaters across the country. But The American Genre Film Archive will offer up something different on 35mm for those lucky enough to be near the right…

bubmagFebruary 18, 2020

Google

How Spotify ran the largest Google Dataflow job ever for Wrapped 2019

In early December, Spotify launched its annual personalized Wrapped playlist with its users’ most-streamed sounds of 2019. That has become a bit of a tradition and isn’t necessarily anything new, but for 2019, it also gave users a look back at how they used Spotify over the last decade. Because…

bubmagFebruary 18, 2020

Riots

The Reason Our Teeth Are So Sensitive to Pain

Leading up to a U.S. presidential election, each state (and territory) must vote to decide which candidates it wants to compete in that election—but how exactly that decision happens differs from state to state. Some have primaries, while others hold caucuses. A primary is a relatively straightforward process that resembles…

bubmagFebruary 18, 2020

Qassim Soleimani

Far Left Democrat Chris Murphy Admits to Meeting Secretly with Iranian Foreign Minister in Germany — Defies Trump Administration

Far Left Democrat Chris Murphy Admits to Meeting Secretly with Iranian Foreign Minister in Germany — Defies Trump Administration by Jim Hoft February 18, 2020 In early January the United States killed General Qassim Soleimani, a top commander of Iran’s al-Quds Force, in an airstrike at Baghdad’s International Airport. The strike…

bubmagFebruary 18, 2020

NASA Could Get a Raise Next Year to Help Fund a 2024 Human Trip to the Moon

Do the climate effects of air pollution impact the global economy?

Hatch: Allison Schulnik’s Debut @ P.P.O.W. NYC

How your favorite airline can slash its colossal carbon emissions

First Teaser Image Of Sword & Shield’s New Mythical Pokemon Released

Oppo publishes the updated road map of ColorOS 7

‘The AGFA Horror Trailer Show’ Will Bring Rare Trailers, Commercials & More to Alamo Drafthouse Theaters

How Spotify ran the largest Google Dataflow job ever for Wrapped 2019

The Reason Our Teeth Are So Sensitive to Pain

Far Left Democrat Chris Murphy Admits to Meeting Secretly with Iranian Foreign Minister in Germany — Defies Trump Administration

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