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Orangutan

As the World Burns, the Powerful Go on Holiday

Like so many these past few days, I have been stunned by the devastation across Australia. The photographs and videos of the fires sweeping through the countryside and surrounding towns and even the city of Sydney show a nation literally on fire. Terrified pe…

bubmagJanuary 8, 2020

Iran Liberalism

The Return of the Antiwar Movement: Memories and Intimations

The turnout in Madison, Wisconsin, for an antiwar rally on Jan.4, was not bad, considering the students are out of town, many local Bernie devotees are busy canvassing in Iowa, and the weather was about as forbidding as usual in the Winter (it could always be…

bubmagJanuary 8, 2020

Air Pollution

The cost of Germany turning off nuclear power: Thousands of lives

Back in 2011, Germany decided that it was done with nuclear power. The Fukushima Daiichi plant had just melted down in Japan, and the threat of disaster seemed overwhelming. Chancellor Angela Merkel’s government, which had intended to keep Germany’s plants open, did an about face and voted to shut down…

bubmagJanuary 8, 2020

Exoskeleton

Sarcos robo-suit turning Delta air crews into superhuman man-machines

Sarcos sprinkled the flavor of the future on last year's CES show when it revealed the latest evolution of its robotic exoskeleton technology, the Guardian XO. At this year's CES, the Salt Lake City-based robotics specialist and Delta Airlines announced pilot…

bubmagJanuary 8, 2020

Skateboard

Magdalena Wosinska photographs the queer skate community of LA

Although boasting an impressive roster of clients ranging from the likes of Adidas, Airbnb, Converse, Foam, AnOther, Vogue and Nylon, Magdalena always makes time for her personal endeavours. Most recently, she ventured to the coast of LA and photographed the …

bubmagJanuary 8, 2020

Super Heroes

Hawkeye Is Dating One of Marvel’s Most Secretly Important Heroes

WARNING: The following article contains spoilers for Hawkeye: Freefall #1 by Matthew Rosenberg, Otto Schmidt and VC's Joe Sabino, on sale now. The first issue of Hawkeye: Freefall proved to be business as usual for the titular hero, but with a couple of new …

bubmagJanuary 8, 2020

Drones

Colorado cops call in FBI in hunt for mysterious drones

A couple of weeks ago, Digital Trends reported on police efforts to get to the bottom of a mystery involving fleets of drones flying over parts of Colorado and Nebraska. Having failed to discover whos behind the strange night flights, local law enforcement a…

bubmagJanuary 8, 2020

Water Scarcity

Tanzania: Women Crave for More Say Over Land Ownership

STRUGGLING over land rights among women in Tanzania and Africa in general, has remained as one of the social challenges despite efforts by relevant authorities to solve the problem. In most parts of the Northern Tanzania, women attest to the power of land ow…

bubmagJanuary 8, 2020

Norway librarian tells Chicoms to go to hell over indecent ‘request’ to remove books from public library

Call it their 'inner Viking' coming out.In response to a creepy request from communist Chinese minders to remove Falun Gong and other politically embarrassing books from a village public library while the Chinese ski team trains there, a humble Norwegian libr…

bubmagJanuary 8, 2020

Bushfire

False arson claims spread on social media amid Australian bushfire crisis

Suspicious Twitter accounts have been proactively pushing a false narrative about the role of arson in the Australian bushfire crisis, social media analysts have warned, including a number of high-profile US figures.On Wednesday morning, the hashtag #ArsonEmergency was the second most trending topic nationally on Twitter, coming in behind #AustralianBushfireDisaster,…

bubmagJanuary 8, 2020

As the World Burns, the Powerful Go on Holiday

The Return of the Antiwar Movement: Memories and Intimations

The cost of Germany turning off nuclear power: Thousands of lives

Sarcos robo-suit turning Delta air crews into superhuman man-machines

Magdalena Wosinska photographs the queer skate community of LA

Hawkeye Is Dating One of Marvel’s Most Secretly Important Heroes

Colorado cops call in FBI in hunt for mysterious drones

Tanzania: Women Crave for More Say Over Land Ownership

False arson claims spread on social media amid Australian bushfire crisis

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