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Checkpoint

Actors have been banned from dressing up as US soldiers at Checkpoint Charlie

Actors dressing up as US soldiers at Checkpoint Charlie in Berlin have been banned for abusing tourists who refused to pay donations for photographs. The fake border guards were said to be making up to £4,200 a day from visitors wanting a souvenir snapshot f…

bubmagNovember 5, 2019

Greta Thunberg

An Open Letter to Greta Thunberg

I write to you in your seventeenth year. I am writing you because this was the year you saw people ridicule you, a solitary figure calling the world to attention with School Strike for Climate; because you know that the last four years were the hottest on re…

bubmagNovember 5, 2019

Economic Bubble

Scott Morrison Wants To Outlaw Boycott Campaigns, But The Mining Industry Doesn’t Need Protection

On Friday, Prime Minister Scott Morrison vowed to craft new laws targeting social and political protest. Speaking to the Queensland Resources Council, he labelled some activist groups as environmental anarchists, and lamented how businesses like banks might b…

bubmagNovember 5, 2019

AR-15

A Florida man says his pregnant wife saved his life in home invasion – with an AR-15

(CNN)A Florida man said two armed men invaded his home and were beating him when his wife, eight months pregnant, saved the day by shooting one of the intruders with an automatic rifle, CNN affiliate Bay News 9 reported. Investigators found the suspect "dead…

bubmagNovember 5, 2019

Privacy Concerns

Researchers use lasers to launch Watch Dogs-style attacks against Alexa and Siri

"Digital assistants" like Siri and Alexa promise to make life more convenient by enabling users to activate and control complex systems with their voice. Andy Kelly explained it best a couple of years ago: "If I want to hear Kiss From a Rose I just scream at …

bubmagNovember 5, 2019

Trade War

SEAsia leaders snub US meeting – The Manila Times

BANGKOK: Several Southeast Asian leaders snubbed a meeting with US officials on Monday after President Donald Trump decided not to attend a regional summit in Bangkok. Just three leaders from the 10-member Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean) showe…

bubmagNovember 5, 2019

Scotland

150 years of scientific illustration

Norman Lockyers figure of a solar spectrum, published in the first issue of Nature.Credit: Nature Science is a fundamentally visual endeavour. It pivots on the material whether that is an atom, a gene, a crystal, a whale or a distant galaxy. Its aim is eluci…

bubmagNovember 5, 2019

Scotland

150 years of scientific illustration

Norman Lockyers figure of a solar spectrum, published in the first issue of Nature.Credit: Nature Science is a fundamentally visual endeavour. It pivots on the material whether that is an atom, a gene, a crystal, a whale or a distant galaxy. Its aim is eluci…

bubmagNovember 5, 2019

Refugees

Google employees urge company to commit to zero emissions by 2030 – CNET

Google headquarters in Mountain View, California. Stephen Shankland/CNET Google employees on Monday called on company management to take action against climate change. More than 1,000 workers signed an open letter to Ruth Porat, Google's chief financial of…

bubmagNovember 5, 2019

Checkpoint

Berlin bans actors from impersonating US soldiers at iconic Cold War crossing

Authorities in Berlin have banned a group of actors from wearing U.S. Army uniforms at Checkpoint Charlie, the famous Cold War-era crossing that divided the city and was heavily guarded by Soviet and American troops. Officials said the actors from the group …

bubmagNovember 5, 2019

Actors have been banned from dressing up as US soldiers at Checkpoint Charlie

An Open Letter to Greta Thunberg

Scott Morrison Wants To Outlaw Boycott Campaigns, But The Mining Industry Doesn’t Need Protection

A Florida man says his pregnant wife saved his life in home invasion – with an AR-15

Researchers use lasers to launch Watch Dogs-style attacks against Alexa and Siri

SEAsia leaders snub US meeting – The Manila Times

150 years of scientific illustration

150 years of scientific illustration

Google employees urge company to commit to zero emissions by 2030 – CNET

Berlin bans actors from impersonating US soldiers at iconic Cold War crossing

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