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Doping in Cycling

VeloNews stories of the decade: Team Sky’s Tour de France domination

"], "filter": { "nextExceptions": "img, blockquote, div", "nextContainsExceptions": "img, blockquote"} }'> Team Sky revolutionized the way the Tour de France was raced, winning seven Tours in eight years. The team garnered plenty of criticism for its budg…

bubmagDecember 31, 2019

Scotland

Rugby in 2019: Springboks cap fairy tale World Cup story at England’s expense as Japan break the barriers down

It may not have been Englands year at the Rugby World Cup as Eddie Joness side came up one hurdle short, but 2019 still proved a fairy tale for the Springboks as captain Siya Kolisi captured the imagination not just of a nation, but of the eyes of the world.…

bubmagDecember 31, 2019

Exoskeleton

‘Man on the Moon’ moment – the year’s big breakthroughs in medicine

It has been a remarkable year of promise in medical science - from inventing ways of treating the untreatable to reversing paralysis and keeping the brain alive after death. Image copyrightFonds de dotation ClinatecImage caption Thibault was able to move h…

bubmagDecember 31, 2019

Plastic Pollution

Unknown Whale Shark Movement in Asia Discovered

Whale sharks (Rhincodon typus) are one of the most iconic elasmobranchs out there, easily identifiable by their blue skin that is peppered with constellations across their whole body. Like a fingerprint, each of these patterns of stars are unique to an indivi…

bubmagDecember 31, 2019

Unwelcome Refugees

Migrant in Libya relives brutal detention through sketches

A guard withholds water from a barefoot migrant kneeling in front of him. An emaciated man lies on the ground while a thermostat reads a broiling 43C (109.4F). Refugees cower to the ground as bullets whiz by. These rough pencil sketches by an Eritrean refuge…

bubmagDecember 31, 2019

Feudalism

Kadir Jasin takes swipe at 2 ministers over billboard adverts

The billboard showing Education Minister Maszlee Malik along the Federal Highway. (Facebook pic) PETALING JAYA: A Kadir Jasin, the prime ministers special adviser on media and communications, has taken Education Minister Maszlee Malik and Rural Development M…

bubmagDecember 31, 2019

Paris

French government minister ‘very surprised’ by Ghosn’s move to Lebanon

PARIS (Reuters) - French junior economy minister Agnes Pannier-Runacher said on Tuesday that she was “very surprised” by news that Carlos Ghosn had left Japan and flown to Lebanon, adding she had heard of it via the media. Pannier-Runacher also told France …

bubmagDecember 31, 2019

Super Heroes

10 Most Powerful Members of Marvel’s Secret Warriors, Ranked

Marvel's had a few undercover teams spring up over the years, with groups like the Secret Defenders and the Secret Avengers forming for various reasons. One of those underground teams was the Secret Warriors, who in their earliest iteration were next-generati…

bubmagDecember 31, 2019

Water Scarcity

Can the Art World Kick Its Addiction to Flying? | Frieze

In 2009, the critic and curator Nicolas Bourriaud published (in English) a book-length essay called The Radicant. The term radicant refers to plants that root from the stem above ground instead of below; to be radicant, Bourriaud wrote, meant setting ones roo…

bubmagDecember 31, 2019

Palestine

The Other Face of Palestinian Resistance is a Gentle Christian Archbishop

( Middle East Monitor ) – “They will run and not grow weary, is a quote from the Bible (Isaiah, 40:41) that adorns the homepage of Kairos Palestine. This important document, which parallels a similar initiative emanating from South Africa during the anti-apar…

bubmagDecember 31, 2019

VeloNews stories of the decade: Team Sky’s Tour de France domination

Rugby in 2019: Springboks cap fairy tale World Cup story at England’s expense as Japan break the barriers down

‘Man on the Moon’ moment – the year’s big breakthroughs in medicine

Unknown Whale Shark Movement in Asia Discovered

Migrant in Libya relives brutal detention through sketches

Kadir Jasin takes swipe at 2 ministers over billboard adverts

French government minister ‘very surprised’ by Ghosn’s move to Lebanon

10 Most Powerful Members of Marvel’s Secret Warriors, Ranked

Can the Art World Kick Its Addiction to Flying? | Frieze

The Other Face of Palestinian Resistance is a Gentle Christian Archbishop

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