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Scotland

On an English Estate, Reintroduced Beavers Might Make a Damn Difference

The future residents of the Holnicote Estate, which sprawls across a portion of Exmoor National Park in Somerset, England, are two families with dark eyes, strong teeth, and thick brown fur. As they settle in in early 2020, these new tenants—mums, dads, and p…

bubmagDecember 5, 2019

Filter Bubble

YouTube Rewind 2019

It was always bad, this is nothing new really.If it was an actual top 10 of the most watched videos/channels then it would be an improvment over the heavy filter-bubble shit they usually do.

bubmagDecember 5, 2019

Virtual Reality

Niantic is working with Qualcomm on augmented reality glasses

We’ve known for a while that Pokémon GO creator Niantic feels a bit limited in what it can do with augmented reality today. Between the latency limitations of 4G cellular networks and the need for players to wave a smartphone around to do anything in AR, the…

bubmagDecember 5, 2019

Air Pollution

Most States Have Cut Environmental Agencies’ Budgets at the Worst Possible Time

In the past decade, Congress and the White House cut the federal Environmental Protection Agencys (EPA) funding for science and pollution regulation by 16 percent (if you adjust for inflation) and cut 2,699 positions. Those cuts were fueled by the idea that e…

bubmagDecember 5, 2019

Korean War

Meet the Photographer in ‘The Times of Bill Cunningham’ Doc Trailer

by Alex BillingtonDecember 5, 2019Source:YouTube "Suddenly all the doors open, and everything I'd known I could record." Greenwich Ent. has unveiled an official trailer for a documentary called The Times of Bill Cunningham, which first premiered at the New Y…

bubmagDecember 5, 2019

SpaceX

A SpaceX Beer Supply Run, Sketchy Baby Yoda Merch, and More News

Sellers are faking and rocket boosters are shaking, but first: a cartoon about when keto goes wrong. Here's the news you need to know, in two minutes or less. Want to receive this two-minute roundup as an email every weekday? Sign up here! SpaceX will brin…

bubmagDecember 5, 2019

Economic Bubble

The Masses Are Being Conditioned To Ignore The Economic Bubble

Authored by Brandon Smith, via Birch Gold Group, In the second week of October, after the partial U.S.-China trade deal was announced to much fanfare, I made this prediction: "US and Chinese officials rarely waste an opportunity to use trade talk headlines …

bubmagDecember 5, 2019

Jamal Khashoggi

Saudi Arabia’s Appeal To Petro Patriotism Works

No matter how much cajoling and foot-stomping and humiliating and IPO cancelling Mohammed bin Salman has done or was going to do, no one was going to pay for Saudi Aramco shares at a $2 trillion valuation, possibly because of the Jamal Khashoggi discount, but…

bubmagDecember 5, 2019

Nuclear Disarmament

A New Nuclear Deal? Start with New START

Russia is ready to extend this critical treaty, but Trump isnt taking yes for an answer. Thirty years after the end of the first Cold War, U.S.-Russian relations are strained and could worsen if the only remaining treaty that verifiably caps the two nations…

bubmagDecember 5, 2019

Big Data

Buttigieg’s Untenable Vow of Silence

In Mr. Buttigiegs case, the most straightforward solution is for McKinsey to release him from his vows of silence or at least to substitute a significantly more permissive agreement. The obligation to provide more information, however, ultimately falls on Mr…

bubmagDecember 5, 2019

On an English Estate, Reintroduced Beavers Might Make a Damn Difference

YouTube Rewind 2019

Niantic is working with Qualcomm on augmented reality glasses

Most States Have Cut Environmental Agencies’ Budgets at the Worst Possible Time

Meet the Photographer in ‘The Times of Bill Cunningham’ Doc Trailer

A SpaceX Beer Supply Run, Sketchy Baby Yoda Merch, and More News

The Masses Are Being Conditioned To Ignore The Economic Bubble

Saudi Arabia’s Appeal To Petro Patriotism Works

A New Nuclear Deal? Start with New START

Buttigieg’s Untenable Vow of Silence

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