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Your Friday Moment of Zen

You did it! Another week down! We're putting up a post very much like this one every Friday, to celebrate the fact that the week is done. Down with labor-for-money! Up with leisure-for-free! We think of this …

bubmagNovember 1, 2019

Old-Age Poverty

Chile’s fiery anger fueled by fears of poverty in old age

SANTIAGO (Reuters) - As over a million people streamed through Santiago’s streets in a series of protest marches last week, one elderly couple stood out from the largely youthful crowd. Amid the debris, tear gas and pot-banging youths, Norma Carrasco, 68, a…

bubmagNovember 1, 2019

Old-Age Poverty

Chile’s fiery anger fueled by fears of poverty in old age

Chile's fiery anger fueled by fears of poverty in old age

bubmagNovember 1, 2019

Blockchain

Ripple Q3 2019: Like the rest of the cryptocurrency market, XRP was slaughtered

Ripple XRP (XRP) is perhaps the most divisive digital asset on the market. True believers remain adamant its a revolutionary cryptocurrency, while critics posit it barely resembles Bitcoin, so it should be ignored. Still, XRP is the third most popular digita…

bubmagNovember 1, 2019

Barack Obama

Barack Obama thinks ‘woke’ kids want purity. They don’t: they want progress

Photograph: Ashlee Rezin Garcia/AP On Tuesday, in Chicago, former president Barack Obama joined actress Yara Shahidi in a conversation with activists from his Obama Foundation program. Over the nearly 1.5-hour Obama Foundation summit event, the beloved polit…

bubmagNovember 1, 2019

Super Heroes

VIDEO GAMES: MARVEL FUTURE FIGHT Reveals The Warriors Of The Sky, An Original Asian Super Hero Team

Over the years, Netmarble's MARVEL Future Fight has expanded its roster with all-new original super heroes created exclusively for the mobile action-RPG. During the recent Thailand Game Show, the developer revealed an entirely new team of heroes, the Warriors…

bubmagNovember 1, 2019

Gundam

Recreating Awkward Gundam Animation

Custom figure artist Dau Lau Boc Khoi has been bringing to life awkward Gundam animation in hand-sculpted polymer clay. Early Gundam animation was not so great and produced some truly awkward, meme-worthy examples of bad animation. Those images now live on a…

bubmagNovember 1, 2019

Little Red Riding Hood

Halloween 2019

We have had a fun Halloween. Halloween is one of our favorite times of year. I love fall. I love having fun with the kids and I love spending time with friends. And it's like the doorway into the holidays - it's hard not to love it! Will Holden had…

bubmagNovember 1, 2019

NASDAQ

Market Snapshot: Stock-index futures point higher ahead of October jobs report, manufacturing data

Stock-index futures signaled a slightly higher start for Wall Street on Friday as investors awaited the October jobs report and an influential gauge of manufacturing activity. What are major indexes doing? Futures on the Dow Jones Industrial Average YMZ19…

bubmagNovember 1, 2019

Chinese Economy

Oil rises on Chinese data but set for weekly loss

TOKYO/LONDON: Oil prices rose on Friday but remained on track for a weekly loss as a surprise bounce in Chinese manufacturing activity calmed investors' worries about progress in US-China trade talks. Brent crude was up 27 cents, or 0.4 per cent, at $59.89 a…

bubmagNovember 1, 2019

Your Friday Moment of Zen

Chile’s fiery anger fueled by fears of poverty in old age

Chile’s fiery anger fueled by fears of poverty in old age

Ripple Q3 2019: Like the rest of the cryptocurrency market, XRP was slaughtered

Barack Obama thinks ‘woke’ kids want purity. They don’t: they want progress

VIDEO GAMES: MARVEL FUTURE FIGHT Reveals The Warriors Of The Sky, An Original Asian Super Hero Team

Recreating Awkward Gundam Animation

Halloween 2019

Market Snapshot: Stock-index futures point higher ahead of October jobs report, manufacturing data

Oil rises on Chinese data but set for weekly loss

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