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Plastic Pollution

Doctor Who serves up ecological horror with a side of romance

Photo: Ben Blackall (BBC America)TV ReviewsAll of our TV reviews in one convenient place.A missing submarine in the Indian Ocean, birds going haywire in Peru, and active alien tech in Hong Kong. Or is it a kidnapped astronaut, a missing travel vlogger, and a suspiciously well-equipped lab on a beach…

bubmagFebruary 3, 2020

Brown Coal

Election 2020 climate policies: From the ambitious to the vague

What happened to “the climate election”, where the issue would take over all others?Ireland was among the first countries in the world to declare last year that we are living in “a climate and biodiversity emergency”. Despite having little more than a decade to change how we consume, live, and…

bubmagFebruary 3, 2020

Kashmir

I want to see Kashmiri Pandits return with dignity to their homeland: Shikara director Vidhu Vinod Chopra

Written by Nishant Shekhar | New Delhi | Updated: February 3, 2020 9:39:22 pm Vidhu Vinod Chopra directorial Shikara will hit screens on February 7.Why did you decide to go with the title Shikara? Shikara is a cultural symbol of Kashmir. The movie is about Kashmiri Pandits’ exodus and while…

bubmagFebruary 3, 2020

Trade War

China January factory activity growth slows to five-month low: Caixin survey

BEIJING (Reuters) - China’s factory activity expanded at its slowest pace in five months in January, even as an outbreak of a new virus added to risks facing the world’s second-largest economy, a private survey showed on Monday. Employees work at the production line of aluminium rolls at a factory…

bubmagFebruary 3, 2020

Rocket shelling

Mom tells of moment she fell with baby when rushing for shelter in rocket attack

A mother has told of how she used her body to protect her newborn baby as she fell while rushing to a bomb shelter during a rocket attack on Sderot last week. The three-week-old girl was hospitalized with moderate head injuries after the incident on the stairs in the family…

bubmagFebruary 3, 2020

Doping in Cycling

Report: Jakob Fuglsang linked with banned doctor Michele Ferrari

Top Danish rider Jakob Fuglsang is the subject of an investigation over links with the notorious doctor Michele Ferrari, Denmark’s Politiken newspaper claimed Sunday. “Information from the Cycling Anti-Doping Foundation (CADF) indicates that (Astana rider) Jakob Fuglsang is part of the program of Michele Ferrari, and that his teammate Alexey…

bubmagFebruary 3, 2020

Meritocracy

9 reasons the Indian CEO keeps coming to the rescue

S. Mitra Kalita is the senior vice president for news, opinion and programming at CNN Digital. She is the author of two books, one on migration to American suburbia and the other on globalization. The opinions expressed in this commentary are her own. (CNN…

bubmagFebruary 3, 2020

Colin Kaepernick

Beyonce, Jay-Z & Blue Ivy Sit Down During Super Bowl National Anthem

Beyonce, Jay-Z & Blue Ivy Sit Down During National Anthem ... At Super Bowl LIV 2/2/2020 4:02 PM PT Exclusive TMZSports.com Beyonce, Jay-Z and their kid, Blue Ivy, chose not to stand up for the National Anthem at Super Bowl LIV ... even with Jay being a big partner of…

bubmagFebruary 3, 2020

Food Industry

Truth decay: when uncertainty is weaponized

Sugar: multinationals have used the tobacco-industry playbook to stymie legislation aimed at cutting consumption.Credit: James MacDonald/Bloomberg via Getty The Triumph of Doubt: Dark Money and the Science of Deception David Michaels Oxford Univ. Press (2020)In 2017, US presidential strategist Kellyanne Conway coined the phrase “alternative facts” to defend false claims…

bubmagFebruary 3, 2020

Spanish Flu

Daily briefing: How to design your own doctoral project

NATURE BRIEFING 03 February 2020 Create your dream doctoral project, tech tools to help make labs more open and inclusive, and the virologists poised to work with live samples of the coronavirus. Hello Nature readers, would you like to get this Briefing in your inbox free every day? Sign up…

bubmagFebruary 3, 2020

Doctor Who serves up ecological horror with a side of romance

Election 2020 climate policies: From the ambitious to the vague

I want to see Kashmiri Pandits return with dignity to their homeland: Shikara director Vidhu Vinod Chopra

China January factory activity growth slows to five-month low: Caixin survey

Mom tells of moment she fell with baby when rushing for shelter in rocket attack

Report: Jakob Fuglsang linked with banned doctor Michele Ferrari

9 reasons the Indian CEO keeps coming to the rescue

Beyonce, Jay-Z & Blue Ivy Sit Down During Super Bowl National Anthem

Truth decay: when uncertainty is weaponized

Daily briefing: How to design your own doctoral project

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