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Beyond Meat

KFC expands its Beyond Meat test to Charlotte and Nashville

The much wider experiment could serve as a more important test. The Atlanta test was helped in part by the exclusivity of having to visit one restaurant for a short period of time. This will show whether there's still demand when curious eaters are under less…

bubmagJanuary 29, 2020

Skateboard

Ever Free: Unity and Politics with Jeffrey Cheung @ New Image Art, Los Angeles

New Image Art Gallery // January 25, 2020 - March 07, 2020 Opening night photos by Ivan OntiverosJeffrey Cheung and friendsJeffrey Cheung with Marsea Goldberg and friend As a gallery on the pulse and constantly exploring the emerging talent around California and other major metropolis', New Image Art Gallery continues…

bubmagJanuary 29, 2020

Catalonia

In Bid to Reinvigorate Independence Drive, Spain’s Catalonia Gets Set for Snap Regional Election

BARCELONA - The pro-independence head of the Catalonian government said on Wednesday he planned to call a snap regional election in a move that could have a major impact on Spain's national politics. Quim Torra cited distrust in his coalition partner in the regional government and said he wanted to…

bubmagJanuary 29, 2020

Greenland

Even the ‘optimistic’ climate change forecast is catastrophic

Here's the deal. Humanity is on pace to heat Earth by around 3 degrees Celsius, or 5.4 degrees Fahrenheit, above pre-Industrial Revolution temperatures by the century's end. That level of warming would be devastating. Why? The world has warmed by a little…

bubmagJanuary 29, 2020

Volodymyr Zelensky

Q: What caused Stepford senators in GOP? A: Campaign contributions from Trump’s lawyers

I've often wondered what kind of blackmail has got Mitch McConnell, Lindsey Graham, et al running so scared that they now don't even try to hide their mindless, sycophantic kneeling before King Trump. But, according to Salon, the answer is much simpler than blackmail – it's about what it's almost…

bubmagJanuary 29, 2020

Air Pollution

Amazon’s airport ambitions might be squashed by a tiny group of activists

A group of environmental and labor activists in Southern California are taking on Amazon and the U.S. government, in hopes of stopping a new airport terminal that’s expected to be used as a massive Amazon fulfillment center that could make air quality in the area even worse. The groups filed…

bubmagJanuary 29, 2020

Paul Newman

Watch This Man Find Out His $346 Rolex Daytona Is Now Worth $700,000

Antiques Roadshow is a nice show that fills most of its one-hour runtime with someone’s hopeful grandma bringing things she fished out of her attic in for appraisal. But every once in a while, viewers are treated to the spectacle of someone essentially hitting the lottery in front of a…

bubmagJanuary 29, 2020

Gundam

Gundam Fan Builds Gunpla for 24 Hours to Raise Charity

Mobile Suit: Gundam's 40th Anniversary may technically be over as the series premiered in 1979, but 2020 marks the 40th birthday for the plastic models that have become such a staple of the mech franchise: Gunplas. Selling over 500 million units during its long history, the franchise has pumped out…

bubmagJanuary 29, 2020

Republica Srpska

How Radovan Karadzic Led an American Scholar Into a Labyrinth of Genocide Denial

Jessica Stern, an expert on terrorism, has just published an unusual book about Radovan Karadzic, who was convicted in 2016 for committing genocide against Bosnian Muslims. Her book, My War Criminal, has already drawn attention for Sterns choice to allow Ka…

bubmagJanuary 29, 2020

Holocaust

As South Dakota State House Votes on Anti-Trans Bill, Lawmaker Says He Regrets Comparing Gender Confirmation Surgeries to Nazi Medical Experiments

South Dakota lawmakers are scheduled to vote Wednesday on a bill that would make it a crime for doctors to treat transgender children younger than 16 with puberty blockers or offer gender confirmation surgeries. The vote comes a day after South Dakota state …

bubmagJanuary 29, 2020

KFC expands its Beyond Meat test to Charlotte and Nashville

Ever Free: Unity and Politics with Jeffrey Cheung @ New Image Art, Los Angeles

In Bid to Reinvigorate Independence Drive, Spain’s Catalonia Gets Set for Snap Regional Election

Even the ‘optimistic’ climate change forecast is catastrophic

Q: What caused Stepford senators in GOP? A: Campaign contributions from Trump’s lawyers

Amazon’s airport ambitions might be squashed by a tiny group of activists

Watch This Man Find Out His $346 Rolex Daytona Is Now Worth $700,000

Gundam Fan Builds Gunpla for 24 Hours to Raise Charity

How Radovan Karadzic Led an American Scholar Into a Labyrinth of Genocide Denial

As South Dakota State House Votes on Anti-Trans Bill, Lawmaker Says He Regrets Comparing Gender Confirmation Surgeries to Nazi Medical Experiments

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