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Aesop Rock Reveals Legendary Videographer Kurt Hayashi Has Suffered A Stroke

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bubmagJanuary 21, 2020

Gundam

Gundam Unleashes New Movie “G40 Project”

With the fortieth anniversary of the Mobile Suit: Gundam series, we received a bevy of different announcements and events to celebrate the longest running and most popular anime mech franchise to date. With a "Gundam Satellite" launching later this year as pa…

bubmagJanuary 21, 2020

Gulag

A Slap in the Face of Stalinism

Varlam Shalamov in 1929. Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons. Every story of mine is a slap in the face of Stalinism, Varlam Shalamov wrote to his friend Irina Sirotinskaya in 1971, and like any slap in the face, has laws of a purely muscular character. He …

bubmagJanuary 21, 2020

Christianity

“Empty the Pews” Shares Stories of Christians Who Left the Fundamentalist Fold

The white evangelical version of Christianity that takes up a good deal of air space and national publicity has done so much damage over the past few decades — especially the past few years — that more and more “ex-vangelicals” are speaking up and sharing their stories of exodus. Some…

bubmagJanuary 21, 2020

Exoskeleton

CES 2020 Interview: HaptX has got the Touch

Haptics was a big thing at CES 2020 earlier this month with bHaptics demoing its Tactsuit system for virtual reality (VR) gamers while Teslasuit announced its new glove prototype – although there wasn’t one to actually demo. One company which has been working in the haptic glove field for some…

bubmagJanuary 21, 2020

Why a Troop Drawdown in Africa is Exactly the Wrong Approach

On December 24, 2019, The New York Times reported that Defense Secretary Mark T. Esper is weighing proposals for a major reduction or even a complete pullout of US forces from West Africa. This is the first phase of reviewing deployments that could reshuffle …

bubmagJanuary 21, 2020

WEF

Greta Thunberg’s Message to Capitalists: ‘Act as if You Loved Your Children’

Greta Thunberg is over it. The 17-year-old Swedish climate activist spoke at the annual World Economic Forum (WEF) meeting in Davos, Switzerland on Tuesday where she told all the business leaders, bankers, and politicians in the audience that they need to get…

bubmagJanuary 21, 2020

Obamacare

Supreme Court Rejects Fast-Track Review of Affordable Care Act Suit

WASHINGTON (AP) The Supreme Court refused Tuesday to consider a fast-track review of a lawsuit that threatens the Obama-era health care law, making it highly unlikely that the justices would decide the case before the 2020 election. The court denied a reques…

bubmagJanuary 21, 2020

Xi Jinping

Everything we know about the mysterious, deadly Wuhan virus sweeping across China

China is dealing with the outbreak of a mysterious virus that has infected around 300 people and killed six, as well as travelling to other countries. Authorities are fighting to stop it from spreading as millions travel for Chinese New Year, and scientists …

bubmagJanuary 21, 2020

Green Deal

Who Pays for the Green Deal?

As laudable as they are, the European Commission's proposals for addressing climate change rely overwhelmingly on forms of financing that violate EU rules. Because the Commission is barred from assuming debt, the European Investment Bank will do so on its beh…

bubmagJanuary 21, 2020

Aesop Rock Reveals Legendary Videographer Kurt Hayashi Has Suffered A Stroke

Gundam Unleashes New Movie “G40 Project”

A Slap in the Face of Stalinism

“Empty the Pews” Shares Stories of Christians Who Left the Fundamentalist Fold

CES 2020 Interview: HaptX has got the Touch

Greta Thunberg’s Message to Capitalists: ‘Act as if You Loved Your Children’

Supreme Court Rejects Fast-Track Review of Affordable Care Act Suit

Everything we know about the mysterious, deadly Wuhan virus sweeping across China

Who Pays for the Green Deal?

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