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Gundam

Poll: Box Art Brawl #19 – Contra III: The Alien Wars

And we're back for another edition of Box Art Brawl, our series of bloody bouts between video game box covers from video game territories across the globe. Konami up to its old tricks. Last week North America was deemed to have the best Donkey Kong 64 cover…

bubmagNovember 30, 2019

Panda

Berlin zoo releases adorable new pictures of panda twin cubs

Berlin’s main zoo has released new photos of twin panda cubs born this summer, saying the two are developing well. The zoo said Thursday that the two cubs each now weigh about 11 pounds — quite an increase from their 6.56 ounce and 4.8 ounce weights when the…

bubmagNovember 30, 2019

Riots

After MLA’s threat, Pragya reminds Cong of anti-Sikh riots

BJP MP Pragya Singh Thakur in Parliament on Wednesday. (ANI) After a Congress MLA threatened to `burn’ her for her remarks praising Nathuram Godse, BJP MP Pragya Thakur hit back on Saturday saying Congressmen have “experience” of burning people during the 19…

bubmagNovember 30, 2019

Christianity

Book: Stillness Is The Key

Ryan Holiday’s newest book, Stillness Is The Key, came out at the beginning of October. I ended up with two copies and thought I’d read it over the weekend after they showed up at my house. The weekend slipped by and I didn’t pick it up until mid-day on Thank…

bubmagNovember 30, 2019

Alibaba

While the US chilled this Thanksgiving week, China moved forward

While we were enjoying our Thanksgiving holiday, folks in Hong Kong were celebrating too. But the jubilation there was the result of several seemingly disparate events. What went down in Hong Kong this week is pretty amazing and worth digging into, as it mi…

bubmagNovember 30, 2019

Global Warming

Climate Crisis and Climate Change

In May, The Guardian announced it would stop using the terms climate change and global warming in favor of the terms climate crisis and global heating. From their editor in chief Katharine Viner: The phrase climate change, for example, sounds rather passive a…

bubmagNovember 30, 2019

Barack Obama

Biden to blitz Iowa back roads by bus in 800-mile hunt for support

(Reuters) - Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden will crisscross Iowa by bus for eight days starting on Saturday, the longest trek of his campaign, to make a personal appeal for support in a critical state where he has lost ground in polls. Biden, wh…

bubmagNovember 30, 2019

Gundam

10 Anime To Watch If You Liked Metal Gear Solid | CBR

Metal Gear Solid, is a widely popular video game franchise by Hideo Kojima, published by Konami. Arriving in the year 1987, MGS has stayed for over 3 decades. However, it caught attention in 1998 when the third series arrived on Sony's PlayStation. Since then…

bubmagNovember 30, 2019

Black Hole

Stellar Black Hole in Our Galaxy Is So Massive It Shouldn’t Exist – Livescience.com

A gigantic stellar black hole 15,000 light-years from Earth is twice as massive as what researchers thought was possible in our own galaxy. The black hole is 70 times more massive than the sun, the scientists wrote in a new study. Previously, scientists th…

bubmagNovember 30, 2019

Feudalism

10 Weekend Reads

The weekend is here! Pour yourself a mug of French Press coffee, grab a seat on the aisle, and get ready for our longer form weekend reads: Americas Drift toward Feudalism (American Affairs)Captive tigers in the U.S. outnumber those in the wild. It’s a prob…

bubmagNovember 30, 2019

Poll: Box Art Brawl #19 – Contra III: The Alien Wars

Berlin zoo releases adorable new pictures of panda twin cubs

After MLA’s threat, Pragya reminds Cong of anti-Sikh riots

Book: Stillness Is The Key

While the US chilled this Thanksgiving week, China moved forward

Climate Crisis and Climate Change

Biden to blitz Iowa back roads by bus in 800-mile hunt for support

10 Anime To Watch If You Liked Metal Gear Solid | CBR

Stellar Black Hole in Our Galaxy Is So Massive It Shouldn’t Exist – Livescience.com

10 Weekend Reads

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