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Virtual Reality

That Damn Witcher Song Is Now Playable In Beat Saber

Toss A Coin To Your Witcher, the obnoxiously catchy song from Netflixs The Witcher series, is everywhere. Its in our heads. It has permeated Twitter. Its being remixed over and over again. Now, thanks to an enterprising player of hit virtual reality rhythm ga…

bubmagJanuary 2, 2020

Water Scarcity

Here’s A Zine Of Grim And Hopeful Global Trends That Could Unfold In 2020

Our global predictions for 2020 comes with a zine or mini magazine you can make yourself. Scroll to the slideshow below to find out how to print and fold this zine. Malaka Gharib/NPR We don't have a crystal ball, but as journalists covering global health an…

bubmagJanuary 2, 2020

Unwelcome Refugees

Fleeing war, poverty, African migrants face racism in Egypt

Two Sudanese sisters, Seham and Ekhlas Bashir, were walking their children home from elementary school in a Cairo neighbourhood when a group of Egyptian teenagers crowded around them. The boys taunted them, calling them "slave" and other slurs. Then they trie…

bubmagJanuary 2, 2020

Slavery Abolition

The Decline of Democracy in the 21st Century

In general, unfortunately, the qualifications required to gain power and keep it have almost no connection with those required to govern with competence and impartiality. – Jean-François Revel (1924-2006), French author and philosopher. (In Ni Marx ni Jésus, …

bubmagJanuary 2, 2020

Skateboard

Meet The Berlin Photographer Using Instagram to Tell Provocative Stories

Berlin photographer Marius Sperlichs Instagram account is known to his 500,000 and counting followers as an artist lovers haven showcasing NSFW portraits. Walking a fine line between Instagram censorship and provocativeness, he uses the human figure as a canv…

bubmagJanuary 2, 2020

Tayyip Erdogan

Turkey to deploy troops in Libya after parliamentary approval

Ruling party lawmakers applaud after the vote passed 325 -184 - AP Turkey's parliament on Thursday authorised the deployment of troops to Libya to support the UN-backed government in Tripoli that is battling forces loyal to a rival government. Turkish lawma…

bubmagJanuary 2, 2020

Julian Assange

UN official equates Chelsea Manning incarceration to torture

ALEXANDRIA, Va. (AP) A United Nations official says the continued incarceration of former intelligence analyst Chelsea Manning for her refusal to testify to a grand jury amounts to torture. Nils Melzer, the U.N.’s special rapporteur on torture, released the …

bubmagJanuary 2, 2020

Silk Road

The Not Hot List: 10 Best Under-the-Radar Trips for 2020

Samarkand, Uzbekistan, a destination tipped by Wild Frontiers Giuseppemasci | Dreamstime.com There have always been reasons to travel off the beaten path, from the noble (self-discovery and transformation) to the mundane (bragging rights andlets not even us…

bubmagJanuary 2, 2020

Holocaust

The Florida White Nationalist Running for President Has Been Arrested for Kidnapping and Domestic Violence

A white nationalist attorney who headlined the violent Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville has been arrested in Florida on kidnapping, high and aggravated domestic violence, and possession of a firearm during a violent crime. Augustus Sol Invictus, 36,…

bubmagJanuary 2, 2020

Seleção

‘New’ Arthur Back To Old Square One At Start Of 2020

BARCELONA, SPAIN - DECEMBER 07: Arthur of FC Barcelona looks on prior to the Liga match between FC ... Barcelona and RCD Mallorca at Camp Nou on December 07, 2019 in Barcelona, Spain. (Photo by Quality Sport Images/Getty Images) Getty Images The day aft…

bubmagJanuary 2, 2020

That Damn Witcher Song Is Now Playable In Beat Saber

Here’s A Zine Of Grim And Hopeful Global Trends That Could Unfold In 2020

Fleeing war, poverty, African migrants face racism in Egypt

The Decline of Democracy in the 21st Century

Meet The Berlin Photographer Using Instagram to Tell Provocative Stories

Turkey to deploy troops in Libya after parliamentary approval

UN official equates Chelsea Manning incarceration to torture

The Not Hot List: 10 Best Under-the-Radar Trips for 2020

The Florida White Nationalist Running for President Has Been Arrested for Kidnapping and Domestic Violence

‘New’ Arthur Back To Old Square One At Start Of 2020

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