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Thousands of pets in Wuhan are trapped and facing starvation with their owners stranded outside the city by the coronavirus outbreak Animal Protection

Thousands of pets in Wuhan are trapped and facing starvation with their owners stranded outside the city by the coronavirus outbreak

Getty ImagesA woman carrying a dog in the Chinese city of Wuhan on January 22. Thousands of pets are trapped and facing starvation in Wuhan, local activists say. Pet owners either stuck in quarantine or stranded outside the city amid a lockdown that began January 23 are unable to return…
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February 5, 2020
Tech Matters: Don’t fall for fake coronavirus news and scams -Examiner Biological Warfare

Tech Matters: Don’t fall for fake coronavirus news and scams -Examiner

The new coronavirus outbreak has provided fuel for hackers, scammers and pranksters. Opportunists all, they may be out for your money, your time and attention, but you can avoid falling for these traps by knowing where to get your facts and practicing safe online behavior.One of the most harmful coronavirus-related…
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February 5, 2020
Book Review: The Cosmopolitan Tradition: A Noble but Flawed Ideal by Martha C. Nussbaum Slavery Abolition

Book Review: The Cosmopolitan Tradition: A Noble but Flawed Ideal by Martha C. Nussbaum

In The Cosmopolitan Tradition: A Noble but Flawed Ideal, renowned philosopher Martha C. Nussbaum offers a set of essays that take their cue from the Cynic and Stoic traditions to explore the tensions within the cosmopolitan ideal through the works of Cicero, Hugo Grotius and Adam Smith. Questioning the book’s positioning…
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February 5, 2020
The World Didn’t Understand How Bad Nuclear War Would Be Before This Exercise Hiroshima

The World Didn’t Understand How Bad Nuclear War Would Be Before This Exercise

Key Point: Someone leaked details to West Germany’s Der Spiegel newspaper. According to the leaked info, targets in West Germany had borne the theoretical brunt of the exercise, with 268 of the 335 mock nuclear weapons detonating inside the country. Throughout the Cold War, the prospect of nuclear war hung over…
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February 5, 2020
New FOIA’d emails reveal the chaos behind the scenes of the National Weather Service’s #SharpieGate Hurricane

New FOIA’d emails reveal the chaos behind the scenes of the National Weather Service’s #SharpieGate

In early September 2019, President Donald J. Trump tweeted something dumb. Specifically, this time it was about the encroaching Hurricane Dorian, and the places that it would or would not hit. In addition to Florida - South Carolina, North Carolina, Georgia,…
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February 5, 2020