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Water Scarcity

Drink more recycled wastewater

One of five water-reuse plants in Singapore, which together supply about 40% of the nations water for drinking and other uses.Credit: Roslan Rahman/AFP/Getty Drinkable water is becoming increasingly scarce. Population growth, pollution and climate change mea…

bubmagDecember 31, 2019

Water Scarcity

Drink more recycled wastewater

One of five water-reuse plants in Singapore, which together supply about 40% of the nations water for drinking and other uses.Credit: Roslan Rahman/AFP/Getty Drinkable water is becoming increasingly scarce. Population growth, pollution and climate change mea…

bubmagDecember 31, 2019

Filter Bubble

Ten years changes everything: The 10 most-influential technologies of the 2010s

A decade ago, we typed on computers. Now we talk with them. As we round the corner to 2020, I have been tallying the ways we use technology that would have made zero sense in 2010. There was no iconic new product of the 2010s. Yet so much changed, bringing…

bubmagDecember 31, 2019

Julian Assange

‘A Tradition’: Manning, Hammond Follow Footsteps of Activists Resisting ‘Egregious’ US Grand Juries

A US grand jury can compel anyone to testify and scarcely refuses to grant indictments brought before it. However, Chelsea Manning and Jeremy Hammond, jailed for refusing to help a grand jury investigate Julian Assange, follow a long tradition of dissidents f…

bubmagDecember 31, 2019

Hrant Dink

Impeachment, Executive Power, and Genocide

The impeachment of Donald J. Trump has everything to do with the question of how much power the president of the United States should wield. Its a constitutional crisis that has been building for years. There is little hope that it will be resolved any time s…

bubmagDecember 31, 2019

Super Heroes

That Time Captain America Became the Hulk in World War II in Tarot #1 [Preview]

Tarot #1 is in stores from Marvel Comics next year, bringing together the Avengers and the Defenders by Alan Davis and Paul Renaud, and we’ve got a preview below. As we go back to World War II, the original super-mega-crossover event sequel, as Captain Ameri…

bubmagDecember 30, 2019

Cold War

US atomic waste dump in Marshall Islands to be investigated

Image copyrightAFPImage caption The Runit Dome houses tonnes of nuclear waste The US Congress has demanded an investigation into a concrete dome full of nuclear waste, threatened by rising sea levels in the Marshall Islands. Dubbed "the tomb", it holds t…

bubmagDecember 30, 2019

Bees

Aussie scientists need your help keeping track of bees (please)

The Asian honey bee (Apis cerana) has been found in Cairns. It's just one of the introduced bees buzzing under the radar. Tobias Smith, Author provided Bees get a lot of good press. They pollinate our crops and in some cases, make delicious honey. But bees ar…

bubmagDecember 30, 2019

Drones

Residents concerned after mysterious drones seen flying over northeastern Colorado

A series of mysterious drones have been spotted flying over several counties in northeastern Colorado. Sheriff Tom Nestor of Lincoln County told ABC News there have been two confirmed reports of drone sightings in his county over open areas such as ranches. …

bubmagDecember 30, 2019

Greta Thunberg

Greta Thunberg: ‘I Wouldn’t Have Wasted My Time’ Talking to President Trump

Greta Thunberg says that she “wouldn’t have wasted time” talking to President Donald Trump about the threat of climate change if she had the opportunity to speak with him. Since the 16-year-old Swedish activist has became known one of the world’s most …

bubmagDecember 30, 2019

Drink more recycled wastewater

Drink more recycled wastewater

Ten years changes everything: The 10 most-influential technologies of the 2010s

‘A Tradition’: Manning, Hammond Follow Footsteps of Activists Resisting ‘Egregious’ US Grand Juries

Impeachment, Executive Power, and Genocide

That Time Captain America Became the Hulk in World War II in Tarot #1 [Preview]

US atomic waste dump in Marshall Islands to be investigated

Aussie scientists need your help keeping track of bees (please)

Residents concerned after mysterious drones seen flying over northeastern Colorado

Greta Thunberg: ‘I Wouldn’t Have Wasted My Time’ Talking to President Trump

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