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Universal Basic Income: A Dream Come True For Despots

Authored by Antony Sammeroff via The Mises Institute, Im sitting in the pub after a Skeptics Society meet up. I dont go very often, but there was a famous author speaking, and living (as most of us do these days) in something of a social media bubble, this i…

bubmagJanuary 12, 2020

Super Komachi

Fukui dinosaur museum to get ¥9.4 bil facelift

With the floor space expanded by 5,700 sq meters, the renovated facility is planned to open in the summer of 2023 following the start of the Hokuriku Shinkansen bullet train serves to Fukui in the spring of that year. I guess I wasn't paying attention and missed them taking the…

bubmagJanuary 12, 2020

Jerusalem Controversy

How picking the wrong day can ruin the experience of a lifetime

It was long ago but I can still not forget my disappointment at seeing nothing of Istanbul's 16th-century Suleymaniye Mosque but the entrance to its courtyard. It was an impressive entrance of big grey walls surmounted by popping domes and minarets like mis…

bubmagJanuary 12, 2020

Drones

F/A-18 Fighter’s New Best Friend: Boeing Is Prepping an Armed Wingman Drone

Boeing is preparing to test prototype wingman drones, apparently at a secretive site in the Australian Outback. The Australian subsidiary of the Chicago-based plane-maker is developing the so-called Airpower Teaming System using company funds as well as $27 …

bubmagJanuary 12, 2020

Caroline Daur

Caroline Daur | Milan

bubmagJanuary 12, 2020

Boeing 737max

5 Airlines I’m Most Eager To Experience

The longer I’ve been in the award travel hobby, the more I realize I enjoy flying foreign air carriers. For many years, the only airline I’d every flown internationally besides U.S. carriers was British Airways. Okay, there was an Air Canada flight to Montrea…

bubmagJanuary 12, 2020

Christianity

‘Evil’: Robert & Michelle King Tease Plans for S2 Including Deeper Dive Into Tech & More Serialized Stories – TCA

Robert and Michelle King, creators of CBS’ drama Evil, are planning to dive deeper into tech-related issues in season two of the and are planning an episode based around Christianity Today’s recent op-ed on President Donald Trump’s impeachment. The pair reve…

bubmagJanuary 12, 2020

Doping in Cycling

EF Pro Cycling to continue to mix road with gravel and mountain biking events in 2020

EF Pro Cycling this year celebrates its 10th season in the UCI WorldTour, but has underlined its commitment to its alternative racing programme under which riders are free to participate in bikepacking, gravel and mountain bike events, as well as those on the…

bubmagJanuary 12, 2020

Boeing 737max

Vistara starts phasing out 9 Boeing 737 planes

Tata-SIA joint venture airline Vistara has started phasing out nine Boeing 737 planes, which it had leased after the grounding of Jet Airways, from this month amid induction of the latest batch of A320 neos in the fleet. The airline is returning two of these…

bubmagJanuary 12, 2020

Anti-Putin Protests

How Ukraine’s Zelenskyy is winning hearts and minds in Russia

On New Year's eve and, as per the long-standing tradition, the presidents of two ex-Soviet countries, Vladimir Putin of Russia and Volodymyr Zelenskyy of Ukraine, delivered their national addresses on TV. How these speeches were received in the two countries,…

bubmagJanuary 12, 2020

Fukui dinosaur museum to get ¥9.4 bil facelift

How picking the wrong day can ruin the experience of a lifetime

F/A-18 Fighter’s New Best Friend: Boeing Is Prepping an Armed Wingman Drone

Caroline Daur | Milan

5 Airlines I’m Most Eager To Experience

‘Evil’: Robert & Michelle King Tease Plans for S2 Including Deeper Dive Into Tech & More Serialized Stories – TCA

EF Pro Cycling to continue to mix road with gravel and mountain biking events in 2020

Vistara starts phasing out 9 Boeing 737 planes

How Ukraine’s Zelenskyy is winning hearts and minds in Russia

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