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Hiroshima

Hiroshima to demolish 2 A-bombed buildings despite some opposition

Two buildings in Hiroshima that survived the 1945 U.S. atomic bombing are to be pulled down as they have grown old and are at risk of collapsing in the event of an earthquake, a local committee said recently, despite calls from residents to preserve them. A …

bubmagDecember 14, 2019

Bees

142° – 1.25Kg 45 day dry aged sirloin £42.75 at Farmison

Pualle14/12/2019 13:39It certainly is.Most fruit and veg isn't vegan, due to the use of farm It certainly is.Most fruit and veg isn't vegan, due to the use of farm animal manure, bees wax, the exploitation of bees for pollination, use of worms in the growing …

bubmagDecember 14, 2019

Electric Scooter

Mini Reduces Cooper SE Range Estimate To 110 Miles

Mini is advertising the range of the upcoming Cooper SE to be 110 miles in the U.S. market, a drop from its previous estimate of 114 miles and a significant drop from the European WLTP range of 146 to 168 miles. That is not an official EPA range, as that…

bubmagDecember 14, 2019

Fortnite

‘Fortnite’ x Star Wars was a giant technical mess. But also, now there are lightsabers.

On the one hand, Fortnite x Star Wars is such an outlandish and untested idea, you have to admire the sheer chutzpah of Epic Games. On the other, the actual technical experience sucked for an awful lot of people. First, the good: J.J. Abrams debuted a new St…

bubmagDecember 14, 2019

Old-Age Poverty

Two big tipping points in 2019 went largely unnoticed

The improvement has been especially impressive so far this century global life expectancy jumped by 5 years between 2000 and 2015, the fastest increase since the 1960s. (The biggest regional gain was in Africa where life expectancy climbed by 9.4 years in tha…

bubmagDecember 14, 2019

Recycling

Keep Your Home Office Clean By Setting Up a Cleaning Schedule

Working from home is fantastic in a lot of ways. Working alone at home can make things like lunch breaks and what clothing youre wearing pretty flexible. It can also something like cleaning up your space optional, in some cases so optional that you might not …

bubmagDecember 14, 2019

Cold War

BBRG: 10 Books on Thinking About Thinking

10 Books on Thinking About ThinkingHeres a winter reading list that might give a little more insight into why we get so many things wrong.Bloomberg, December 14, 2019 Thanksgiving is behind us, Christmas is around the corner and the rest of the long, dark wi…

bubmagDecember 14, 2019

Hiroshima

‘Nuclear bomb’ meteorites hit Earth every 180 years, findings from Australian crater show

Posted December 15, 2019 07:00:00 Australia's Wolfe Creek Crater is much younger than previously thought, and has allowed scientists to calculate how often meteorites hit Earth with the force of massive nuclear explosions. Key points: New researc…

bubmagDecember 14, 2019

Matteo Salvini

Fish and Fascism: How Italy is Turning the Tide Against the Far Right

ROMEThere are only a few things that draw cynical Romans out to the streets on a Saturday during Christmas season, and they usually have nothing to do with fish. But on this Saturday afternoon, tens of thousands of Romans descended onto San Giovanni square in…

bubmagDecember 14, 2019

Gundam

Open Forum #337

The Open Forum is your domain for anything and everything. Whatever you feel is inappropriate to discuss in other threads, you can discuss here. Want to talk about Shenmue III, SD Gundam G Generation Cross Rays, SaGa: Scarlet Grace Ambitions, and other recent…

bubmagDecember 14, 2019

Hiroshima to demolish 2 A-bombed buildings despite some opposition

142° – 1.25Kg 45 day dry aged sirloin £42.75 at Farmison

Mini Reduces Cooper SE Range Estimate To 110 Miles

‘Fortnite’ x Star Wars was a giant technical mess. But also, now there are lightsabers.

Two big tipping points in 2019 went largely unnoticed

Keep Your Home Office Clean By Setting Up a Cleaning Schedule

BBRG: 10 Books on Thinking About Thinking

‘Nuclear bomb’ meteorites hit Earth every 180 years, findings from Australian crater show

Fish and Fascism: How Italy is Turning the Tide Against the Far Right

Open Forum #337

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