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Feudalism

The Rise Of The Gig Economy

Its easier to change what you do than people think it is. If you dont change, your field changes around you. - Walter Gilbert Technology is disrupting the way we work. Independent or contract work is hardly a new phenomenon, but the post-global financial cri…

bubmagDecember 11, 2019

Hiroshima

Man whose farts kill mosquitoes hired to make repellent…

A MAN whose farts kill mosquitoes claims to have been signed up by insect repellent companies probing the secret of his killer gas. Joe Rwamirama, 48, from Kampala, Uganda says boffins have launched a study into the chemical properties of his unique trouser …

bubmagDecember 11, 2019

Global Warming

Greenland’s Ice Sheet Melting Seven Times Faster Than In 1990s

Greenland's ice sheet is melting much faster than previously thought, threatening hundreds of millions of people with inundation and bringing some of the irreversible impacts of the climate emergency much closer. Ice is being lost from Greenland seven times f…

bubmagDecember 11, 2019

Plastic Pollution

Plastic Pollution: Pune scientists discover fungi strains that degrade polythene

Researchers, led by Avinash Ade at Savitribai Phule Pune University, have published a paper in Scientific Reports, identifying fungi that can potentially degrade polythene. (File Photo)Three scientists from Pune University have identified fungi which can pote…

bubmagDecember 11, 2019

Alibaba

Editor’s Sidelines, December 2019: Full Circle

Its rare to cross paths with one of the worlds great entrepreneurial heroes not once but twice, both at pivotal moments in that entrepreneurs journey. Such is the case with Jack Ma, the founder of Alibaba. Forbes Global, the precursor magazine to Forbes Asia,…

bubmagDecember 11, 2019

AR-15

Amber Alert issued for 4 children out of Seattle – KIRO Seattle

SEATTLE — An Amber Alert that was issued Tuesday evening for four children in Washington state has been canceled. Trooper Rick Johnson said the family was found in Cheney, Washington at about 7 p.m. Investigators said the suspect is 42-year-old Nicholas An…

bubmagDecember 11, 2019

AR-15

AMBER Alert canceled for 4 children abducted out of Seattle; suspects in custody – Q13 News Seattle

SEATTLE Washington State Patrol has canceled an AMBER Alert for several children Seattle Police say were abducted by their own parents Tuesday. The suspect vehicle was a 28-foot, tan 1992 Bounder motorhome with a Washington plate number of BPP8654 driven by …

bubmagDecember 11, 2019

Donald Trump

Trump to sign order to interpret Judaism as a nationality

(CNN)President Donald Trump will sign an executive order on Wednesday to interpret Judaism as a nationality and not just a religion, a move that the Trump administration believes will fight what they perceive as anti-Semitism on college campuses, a White Hous…

bubmagDecember 11, 2019

Tayyip Erdogan

Austrian Writer Peter Handke Takes the Nobel Literature Prize Amid Protests

STOCKHOLM (AP) — Author Peter Handke received his Nobel Literature Prize on Tuesday amid criticism of him in Sweden and abroad as an apologist for Serb war crimes in the 1990s. Handke accepted the 9 million-kronor ($948,000) award from King Carl XVI Gustaf a…

bubmagDecember 11, 2019

Super Komachi

How high-speed rail has made China a fierce competitor in the global economy

Published: 9:30am, 11 Dec, 2019 Updated: 9:30am, 11 Dec, 2019

bubmagDecember 11, 2019

The Rise Of The Gig Economy

Man whose farts kill mosquitoes hired to make repellent…

Greenland’s Ice Sheet Melting Seven Times Faster Than In 1990s

Plastic Pollution: Pune scientists discover fungi strains that degrade polythene

Editor’s Sidelines, December 2019: Full Circle

Amber Alert issued for 4 children out of Seattle – KIRO Seattle

AMBER Alert canceled for 4 children abducted out of Seattle; suspects in custody – Q13 News Seattle

Trump to sign order to interpret Judaism as a nationality

Austrian Writer Peter Handke Takes the Nobel Literature Prize Amid Protests

How high-speed rail has made China a fierce competitor in the global economy

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