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Gundam

Mobile Suit Gundam Fan Celebrates Holidays with Mech Tree

The holiday season is upon us, and people are getting into their most festive mode. Christmas is a matter of weeks from now, so there is no shortage on Christmas trees and holiday gifts. Of course, plenty of families will add in a few nerdy things to their fe…

bubmagDecember 4, 2019

Skateboard

Oskar Rozenberg and Nike SB Officially Announce Full Orange Label Collection

Swedish skateboarder Oskar Rozenberg and Nike SB have officially announced a full “Oski” capsule collection that consists of an SB Dunk High, corduroy SB Blazer and multiple pieces of apparel. With a recurring shark motif, the collection looks to the ocean’s …

bubmagDecember 4, 2019

Self-driving Vehicles

Alibaba-financed AutoX wants to test self-driving cars without humans – Roadshow

The startup thinks it's ready to take the human out of the car. AutoX Alphabet Inc.'s Waymo may have a new challenger that hails from China. AutoX, a startup with funding from Alibaba, has applied for a California permit to test autonomous cars in the state…

bubmagDecember 4, 2019

SpaceX

SpaceX delays space station delivery due to high wind – CP24 Toronto’s Breaking News

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - SpaceX has delayed its delivery to the International Space Station because of dangerous wind gusts. The Falcon 9 rocket came less than an hour from launching Wednesday. But the company halted the countdown because of excessive upper-le…

bubmagDecember 4, 2019

Solar Storm

Sun’s close-up reveals atmosphere hopping with highly energetic particles

Outbursts of energetic particles that hurtle out from the sun and can disrupt space communications may be even more varied and numerous than previously thought, according to results from the closest-ever flyby of the sun.The new findings, which help us unders…

bubmagDecember 4, 2019

Solar Storm

Parker Solar Probe traces solar wind to its source on sun’s surface: coronal holes

A year ago, NASA's Parker Solar Probe flew closer to the sun than any satellite in history, collecting a spectacular trove of data from the very edge of the sun's million-degree corona.Now, that data has allowed solar physicists to map the source of a major c…

bubmagDecember 4, 2019

Mexico Border Wall

Trump supporters’ private border wall blocked due to concern for butterflies

A judge in South Texas has ordered a group of supporters of Donald Trump, some with rightwing ties, not to build their controversial planned private border wall on a section of land near the Rio Grande. State district Judge Keno Vasquez on Tuesday issued a t…

bubmagDecember 4, 2019

Riots

Voices that need a ear

Written by Dipti Nagpaul | Published: December 5, 2019 1:20:12 am Sameena Dalwai and Geetanjali Kulkarni in rehearsal Amit ChakravartyThey sit in the bright, sunlit room on the cold, stone-tiled floor, across from each other, one dressed in black and th…

bubmagDecember 4, 2019

Protectionism

Pitchfork Protectionism

Editor: Attempting to excuse Pres. Trumps economically misguided protectionism, Bobby Jindal – like a rabble-rousing populist from central casting – appropriately bellows out fallacies and slays straw men (Trump Wins the Populist Patriots, Dec. 3). Consider…

bubmagDecember 4, 2019

Belt and Road

Pakistani investigators say hundreds of girls and women being sold to China — but neither country will act

Pakistani investigators have confirmed at least 629 girls and women from across the country were sold as brides to Chinese men and taken to China in the past 18 months or so. The list of names, obtained by The Associated Press, was compiled by investigators d…

bubmagDecember 4, 2019

Mobile Suit Gundam Fan Celebrates Holidays with Mech Tree

Oskar Rozenberg and Nike SB Officially Announce Full Orange Label Collection

Alibaba-financed AutoX wants to test self-driving cars without humans – Roadshow

SpaceX delays space station delivery due to high wind – CP24 Toronto’s Breaking News

Sun’s close-up reveals atmosphere hopping with highly energetic particles

Parker Solar Probe traces solar wind to its source on sun’s surface: coronal holes

Trump supporters’ private border wall blocked due to concern for butterflies

Voices that need a ear

Pitchfork Protectionism

Pakistani investigators say hundreds of girls and women being sold to China — but neither country will act

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