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Obamacare

Supreme Court to Hear Gun, Obamacare Cases

The Supreme Court will return Monday for oral arguments in what is shaping up to be a blockbuster term. During the high courts two-week December sitting, the justices will hear arguments in some important cases, including ones regarding the Second Amendment …

bubmagNovember 27, 2019

Brexit Negotiator

The English Question

If Brexit is an English revolt what will happen to England after Brexit? Will the forces of English nationalism unlocked by this period of extraordinary politics be absorbed and settled by the new populism of Boris Johnsons remade Conservative Party? Or will …

bubmagNovember 27, 2019

Brexit Negotiator

Three lions and a unicorn

If Brexit is an English revolt what will happen to England after Brexit? Will the forces of English nationalism unlocked by this period of extraordinary politics be absorbed and settled by the new populism of Boris Johnsons remade Conservative Party? Or will …

bubmagNovember 27, 2019

Ukrainian Revolution

The grand pro-democracy narratives of 1989 are over

Squint, and 2019 seems to be a rerun of 1989, that iconic year that became synonymous with people-powered revolution and the fall of the Berlin Wall. Then, as now, demonstrations have taken place on the streets in different countries, in Hong Kong and Prague,…

bubmagNovember 27, 2019

Slavery Abolition

Lincoln’s legacy includes adding Thanksgiving

Thanksgiving means real, not ideological, inclusiveness. President Abraham Lincoln profoundly demonstrated this fundamental point. On Oct. 3, 1863, the White House issued the Thanksgiving Proclamation, declaring the last Thursday of November to be a day of th…

bubmagNovember 27, 2019

Riots

Iran says it arrested eight with CIA links during unrest

DUBAI (Reuters) - Iranian security agents arrested at least eight people linked to the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency during last week’s unrest over gasoline price hikes, the official news agency IRNA reported on Wednesday. “These elements had received CI…

bubmagNovember 27, 2019

Donald Trump

Trump just tweeted a pic of his head on Rocky’s shirtless body. What the hell is happening?

What, and I simply can't stress this next part enough, the hell did Trump just do? It's the Wednesday before Thanksgiving, and we're all just trying to survive. Did we need the president of United States to mess with us on Twitter? We FOR SURE did not. But t…

bubmagNovember 27, 2019

Machine Learning

Bayer BrandVoice: What Smart Cities Are Learning From Smart Farms

Bayer Cities around the world are getting smarter. Already, street lights in places like San Diego are turning off, and conserving energy, when vehicles and pedestrians arent around. Soon, connected garbage cans will tell waste haulers when they need to be e…

bubmagNovember 27, 2019

Blockchain

Telegram Faces Anti-Piracy Referral to US Over Cryptocurrency Plans

Telegram was founded in 2013 by brothers Nikolai and Pavel Durov, who previously launched Russian social network VK (vKontakte). The messaging service has grown from strength to strength and currently has around 300 million users. However, Telegram is increa…

bubmagNovember 27, 2019

Moravec‘s Paradox

Demystifying AI: What’s Fiction, and What’s Worth Fanfare?

As artificial intelligence drives a fourth industrial revolution, fears and doubts about AI are pervasive. In the first industrial revolution, machines began replacing manual labor, and there were human concerns over the change. Here is demystifying AI. What’…

bubmagNovember 27, 2019

Supreme Court to Hear Gun, Obamacare Cases

The English Question

Three lions and a unicorn

The grand pro-democracy narratives of 1989 are over

Lincoln’s legacy includes adding Thanksgiving

Iran says it arrested eight with CIA links during unrest

Trump just tweeted a pic of his head on Rocky’s shirtless body. What the hell is happening?

Bayer BrandVoice: What Smart Cities Are Learning From Smart Farms

Telegram Faces Anti-Piracy Referral to US Over Cryptocurrency Plans

Demystifying AI: What’s Fiction, and What’s Worth Fanfare?

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