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Monsanto

And the Winner for the Worst Corporate Deal Is Bayer

Some credit Bayer AG (XTER: BAYN) with making the worst corporate deal in recent memory. With a market cap of about $62 billion, the German conglomerate's value is below what it paid for Monsanto last year. Even Houdini would have a difficult time making the …

bubmagOctober 25, 2019

Virtual Reality

If You Can See It, You Can Save It (That’s the Idea, Anyway)

They can create a false sense of security, especially if their components are not well understood, according to Jonathan Clements, the author of How to Think About Money and editor of the website HumbleDollar. Retirement calculators can vary widely based on a…

bubmagOctober 25, 2019

Christianity

Infamous Pastor Joel Osteen Reportedly Invites Kanye West to His Houston Church

The often criticized celebrity pastor Joel Osteen has taken note of Kanye West's new-found love of Christianity. As TMZ reports, sources close to the two individuals indicate that they have been friends for a while and have been talking over the phone. Due to…

bubmagOctober 25, 2019

Christianity

Kenyan Theologian Who Elevated African Religion Passes Away

Hugh Trevor-Roperhistorian, essayist, master of Peterhouse at the University of Cambridge, regius professor of modern history at Oxford, a life-member of the House of Lordsargued in 1965 that Africa had no history prior to European exploration and colonizatio…

bubmagOctober 25, 2019

Google

Google Tweaks Search to Better Understand Your Gibberish Queries

Searching for information online sometimes takes creativitydepending on how you word a query, Google can bring back some wonky results. Thats why Google announced today that its improved search to better understand natural language for queries cant antic…

bubmagOctober 25, 2019

Biological Warfare

Trump administration ends program to monitor animal diseases that could spread to humans (like Ebola)

The bizarre move worries public health experts Donald Trump's administration will end a federal program that monitors dangerous animal diseases that could spread to humans. This news alarms public health experts, and those who are concerned that America's …

bubmagOctober 25, 2019

Bubble

Emily Nussbaum, TV Critic for The New Yorker

Cool Tools Show 197: Emily Nussbaum Our guest this week is Emily Nussbaum. Emily is the television critic at The New Yorker, the winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Criticism and the author of I Like To Watch: Arguing My Way Through The TV Revolution. You can f…

bubmagOctober 25, 2019

Brexit

How Brexit Will End

When does uncertainty become the worst condition of all? This fall, more than three years after Britain voted to leave the European Union, no one was sure what form Brexit would take, what kind of relationship we would have with our nearest neighbors, or whet…

bubmagOctober 25, 2019

Yellow Vests

The Neoliberal Ghost of Pinochet Is Finally Being Exorcised from Chile

More than 46 years of initially military imposed neoliberalism has finally exploded into widespread frustration, protest and violence. This neoliberalism culminated in 2017 with twelve businessmen, among them Chilean President Sebastián Piñera, monopolizing a…

bubmagOctober 25, 2019

Recycling

Tim Cook Says One-Third or More of Apple Store Visitors Now Using Trade-In Program

Prior to delivering the keynote address at the Ceres sustainability gala in New York City this week, Apple CEO Tim Cook spoke briefly with GQ about the company's environmental efforts, iPhone trade-ins, and more. Apple has heavily promoted its iPhone trade-i…

bubmagOctober 25, 2019

And the Winner for the Worst Corporate Deal Is Bayer

If You Can See It, You Can Save It (That’s the Idea, Anyway)

Infamous Pastor Joel Osteen Reportedly Invites Kanye West to His Houston Church

Kenyan Theologian Who Elevated African Religion Passes Away

Google Tweaks Search to Better Understand Your Gibberish Queries

Trump administration ends program to monitor animal diseases that could spread to humans (like Ebola)

Emily Nussbaum, TV Critic for The New Yorker

How Brexit Will End

The Neoliberal Ghost of Pinochet Is Finally Being Exorcised from Chile

Tim Cook Says One-Third or More of Apple Store Visitors Now Using Trade-In Program

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