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Plastic Pollution

Rampant death for hermit crabs who confuse plastic trash for shells

New research finds that on just two remote islands alone, nearly 600,000 crabs are killed every year by plastic debris. If you have ever witnessed the true wonder of a hermit crab housing exchange, you know how crucial their seashell dwellings are. One of li…

bubmagDecember 6, 2019

Bubble

Why Sam and Aaron Taylor-Johnson Fought to Get A Million Little Pieces in Front of Audiences

“Do what you want with it.” That was more or less what James Frey told the director Sam Taylor-Johnson when she and her husband, the Golden Globe-winning actor Aaron Taylor-Johnson, approached him about bringing Frey’s 2003 book A Million Little Pieces to the…

bubmagDecember 6, 2019

Protectionism

Bonus Quotation of the Day…

Tweet … is from pages 47-48 of Jagdish Bhagwatis 2002 book, Free Trade Today: But the perennial and persistent public-policy fights for free trade, in the end, were with protectionists who cared little about the size of the pie and more about their own slic…

bubmagDecember 6, 2019

Greta Thunberg

Greta Thunberg delivers sharp criticism at climate conference

(CNN)Teen activist Greta Thunberg on Friday again criticized world leaders gathered for the COP25 conference in Madrid for not doing enough to stop the ecological crisis that's damaging the planet. "We have been striking for over a year, and basically nothi…

bubmagDecember 6, 2019

Holocaust

Germany’s Merkel expresses ‘deep shame’ during Auschwitz visit

Angela Merkel has expressed "deep shame" during her first visit as Germany's chancellor to the Auschwitz-Birkenau Holocaust memorial and pledged to fight rising racism and anti-Semitism in her country and Europe. A black-clad Merkel said on Friday that the c…

bubmagDecember 6, 2019

Little Red Riding Hood

Stray Dog Theatre’s ‘Disenchanted!’ is fairy-tale fun

At the end of a fairy tale, characters live happily ever after. But getting there tends to be pretty disturbing. Little Red Riding Hood spends time in a wolfs stomach. Three unsuspecting bears have their home invaded by the presumptuous Goldilocks. And two i…

bubmagDecember 6, 2019

Economic Bubble

Is Inflation Really Under Control?

Authored by Patrick Hill via RealInvestmentAdvice.com, Recently, analysts have been discussing the pros and cons of using negative interest rates to keep the U.S. economy growing. Despite this, Fed Chairman Jerome Powell has said that he does not anticipate…

bubmagDecember 6, 2019

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Actor who played husband in Peloton commercial talks about being a target of anger

Some people are so upset about the awful Peloton commercial that they seem to think the actors were not in a role but were a real family. This reminds me of my Russian grandmother who told me that certain actors in soap operas were bad people because they pla…

bubmagDecember 6, 2019

Greta Thunberg

Thunberg urges climate action because ‘people are dying’

Thunberg urges climate action because 'people are dying'

bubmagDecember 6, 2019

Skateboard

Coming-of-age drama about a skateboarding muslim teen debuts on Apple TV+

Hala, a film about the struggle of a Muslim teen fitting in in America, just became the second movie available on the Apple TV+ video service. The independent feature debuted earlier this year at the Sundance festival, and reviewers have generally liked this…

bubmagDecember 6, 2019

Rampant death for hermit crabs who confuse plastic trash for shells

Why Sam and Aaron Taylor-Johnson Fought to Get A Million Little Pieces in Front of Audiences

Bonus Quotation of the Day…

Greta Thunberg delivers sharp criticism at climate conference

Germany’s Merkel expresses ‘deep shame’ during Auschwitz visit

Stray Dog Theatre’s ‘Disenchanted!’ is fairy-tale fun

Is Inflation Really Under Control?

Actor who played husband in Peloton commercial talks about being a target of anger

Thunberg urges climate action because ‘people are dying’

Coming-of-age drama about a skateboarding muslim teen debuts on Apple TV+

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