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Greta Thunberg

Greta Thunberg shuts down heckler at climate rally – AOL

Speaking at a rally in Charlotte, N.C., Friday, Swedish teenage climate activist Greta Thunberg shut down a heckler who tried to interrupt her speech. I think if you want to speak with me personally, maybe you can do it later, Thunberg said before the crowd …

bubmagNovember 9, 2019

NASDAQ

China’s news and data site 36Kr tumbles in its stock market debut

36Kr, a Chinese news and data website that tracks startups, fell 10% in its Nasdaq debut on Friday. The disappointing debut followed 36Kr's decision to slash the size of its offering from 3.6 million shares to 1.4 million and pricing its shares at $14.5, the…

bubmagNovember 9, 2019

Orangutan

2 orangutans going home to Indonesia next month

The Department of National Parks, Wildlife and Plant Conservation will repatriate two orangutans to Indonesia under the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (Cites) treaty by the end of December. The handover will b…

bubmagNovember 9, 2019

Filter Bubble

Iowa Photography, Mapping Catholicism, Text-Generating AI, More: Friday Evening ResearchBuzz, November 8, 2019

NEW RESOURCES Oskaloosa Herald: Family photos connect Iowans to history. “ Fabos discovered the original Fortepan photo archive in 2013 in Hungary, where she was a Fulbright scholar. The project began when a group of friends in Budapest rescued a di…

bubmagNovember 9, 2019

Privacy Concerns

Top antitrust enforcer warns Big Tech over data collection – WTOP

CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts (AP) The Justice Department’s top antitrust official warned Big Tech companies Friday that the government could pursue them for anticompetitive behavior related to their troves of user data, including for cutting off data access to co…

bubmagNovember 9, 2019

Privacy Concerns

Top antitrust enforcer warns Big Tech over data collection

CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts (AP) The Justice Department's top antitrust official warned Big Tech companies Friday that the government could pursue them for anticompetitive behavior related to their troves of user data, including for cutting off data access to co…

bubmagNovember 9, 2019

Christianity

Kentucky High School Called Out for Promoting Bible Verse in Locker Room

You would think a public high school would at least try to hide its overt Christianity, and yet this is the locker room at Letcher County Central High School in Whitesburg, Kentucky: The sign says But the Lord is with me like a Mighty Warrior. Jeremiah 20:11…

bubmagNovember 9, 2019

Scotland

An utter slob: Wexford’s unique wildfowl reserve

Theres not much natural here, says Dominic Berridge with mild irony, as he walks me through the sophisticated hydro-engineering works that converted Wexford Harbours North Slob from hundreds of acres of wild salt marsh (or slob) to highly managed pasture and …

bubmagNovember 9, 2019

Julian Assange

Bannon Says Stone Was Trump Campaign Link to WikiLeaks

WASHINGTON (AP) Donald Trumps campaign viewed Roger Stone as an access point to WikiLeaks and tried to use him to get advanced word about hacked emails damaging to Hillary Clinton, a former top presidential adviser testified Friday. In reluctant testimony, f…

bubmagNovember 9, 2019

Climate Change

Where Michael Bloomberg Stands on the Issues

On taxes, health care and other economic issues, Mr. Bloomberg would be very much on the conservative end of the Democratic field. He argued in January that a tax on the wealth of rich Americans would be unconstitutional because the Constitution lets you im…

bubmagNovember 9, 2019

Greta Thunberg shuts down heckler at climate rally – AOL

China’s news and data site 36Kr tumbles in its stock market debut

2 orangutans going home to Indonesia next month

Iowa Photography, Mapping Catholicism, Text-Generating AI, More: Friday Evening ResearchBuzz, November 8, 2019

Top antitrust enforcer warns Big Tech over data collection – WTOP

Top antitrust enforcer warns Big Tech over data collection

Kentucky High School Called Out for Promoting Bible Verse in Locker Room

An utter slob: Wexford’s unique wildfowl reserve

Bannon Says Stone Was Trump Campaign Link to WikiLeaks

Where Michael Bloomberg Stands on the Issues

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