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Greta Thunberg

In 2019, Teens Helped Prove Gen Z Is Unstoppable

If 2019 proved anything, it’s this: Never underestimate the youths. Thanks to Generation Z which Pew Research Center defines as those born after the year 1996 who are 22 or younger by the end of 2019 this year was a little more bright. From their wokeness o…

bubmagDecember 25, 2019

Feudalism

How The Battle of Gettysburg Changed U.S. History Forever

Key Point: And marked the coming of the end for the South. The occasion was, for the North, inauspicious. In the Battle of First Manassas, the Federals were routed, humiliated, and almost utterly crushed. In the Seven Days, they were outmaneuvered and force…

bubmagDecember 25, 2019

Android

The best user reviews of 2019

Every week, we ask our readers to tell us their thoughts on a different product or device -- because no one knows better than the people who have purchased and used these things for weeks, months or even years. Last year we received 650 reviews and scores on …

bubmagDecember 25, 2019

Old-Age Poverty

More than 20 places receive dual English and Māori names from Land Information New Zealand

By Meriana Johnsen for RNZ Another group of places across the country now reflect both Mori and Pkeh history after receiving dual names this year. Land Information New Zealand has given twenty-two places from Fiordland to the East Cape both English and Mo…

bubmagDecember 25, 2019

Old-Age Poverty

New dual English/Māori place names

This story was originally published on RNZ.co.nz and is republished with permission. Another group of places across the country now reflect both Mori and Pkeh history after receiving dual names this year. Land Information New Zealand has given 22 places f…

bubmagDecember 25, 2019

Anti-Putin Protests

Anti-Putin activist ‘forcibly drafted’ and sent to Arctic base

MOSCOW – Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny said Wednesday that one of his allies had been forcibly conscripted and sent to serve at a remote Arctic base, in a move his supporters said amounted to kidnapping. Ruslan Shaveddinov, a project manager at Na…

bubmagDecember 25, 2019

Trade War

A Very Trade-War Christmas (Podcast)

bubmagDecember 25, 2019

Feudalism

How America is reverting back to the feudal age

Americas birth represented a dramatic break from the past. Save for a few vestiges of the old European feudal order, mostly in the plantation economy of the Deep South, there was no hereditary nobility, no national church and, thanks to George Washingtons mod…

bubmagDecember 25, 2019

Exoskeleton

Want to lift 200 pounds without breaking a sweat? Strap into this exosuit

For a championship weightlifter, performing a barbell curl with 200 pounds is tough. Get in half a dozen reps and youd rightly feel like Superman in the gym. But what if your job was to perform bicep curls of anything up to 200 pounds, eight hours a day, five…

bubmagDecember 25, 2019

Free Internet

Russia successfully disconnected its homegrown RuNet from the Internet

Through the looking glass: For Russian President Vladimir Putin, the "free internet" and "sovereign internet" concepts aren't mutually exclusive. The country recently performed several successful tests that simulated how it would respond in case of a foreign …

bubmagDecember 25, 2019

In 2019, Teens Helped Prove Gen Z Is Unstoppable

How The Battle of Gettysburg Changed U.S. History Forever

The best user reviews of 2019

More than 20 places receive dual English and Māori names from Land Information New Zealand

New dual English/Māori place names

Anti-Putin activist ‘forcibly drafted’ and sent to Arctic base

A Very Trade-War Christmas (Podcast)

How America is reverting back to the feudal age

Want to lift 200 pounds without breaking a sweat? Strap into this exosuit

Russia successfully disconnected its homegrown RuNet from the Internet

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