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Recycling

Want To Get Rid Of Your Vaping Device? The DEA Will Take It

This year the Drug Enforcement Administration is accepting electronic vaping devices during its annual National Prescription Drug Take Back Day event. Craig Mitchelldyer/AP In the wake of vaping-related deaths and illnesses, the Drug Enforcement Administrat…

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

Barack Obama

Are the Suburbs Turning Democratic? It Depends Where You Look

While it varies somewhat from region to region, many of these places sprang up on what was, until recently, farmland and still look a lot like the rural areas that form the heart of Mr. Trumps support whiter, older, less educated. These are also the places th…

bubmagOctober 25, 2019

Holocaust

The Talented Patricia Highsmith’s Private Diaries Are Going Public

The documents have remained in the Swiss Literary Archives, viewed by a handful of scholars and biographers. Transcribing and editing the journals was a monumental task, von Planta said. The process was complicated by the fact that Highsmith kept two sets of …

bubmagOctober 25, 2019

Checkpoint

Three decades on, Berlin Wall comes back to life in virtual reality tour

BERLIN – A packed bus approaches Checkpoint Charlie, the Cold War’s most famous border crossing, as grim-faced East German guards whisper among themselves about whether to hold you for questioning. After a few heart-stopping minutes, you and your fellow pass…

bubmagOctober 25, 2019

Palestine

Patterns of Occupied Palestine: Part 3 of Uncountable

Two things in America create “bipartisanship”: support for Israel’s apartheid regime and support for endless US war and intervention around the world. Ali Abunimah, October 16. Its September-October and Im sitting at my Sidewalk Museum of Congress (SMoC) s…

bubmagOctober 25, 2019

Machine Learning

Google BERT Update – What it Means via @martinibuster

Google announced what they called the most important update in five years. The BERT update impacts 10% of search queries. What is BERT and how will it impact SEO? BERT is a Major Google Update According to Google this update will affect complicated search q…

bubmagOctober 25, 2019

Brexit

EU might grant Brexit extension on Friday, but with no date set yet: official

BRUSSELS (Reuters) - European Union governments may agree in principle on Friday to Britain’s request for an extension of the Brexit deadline, but keep the length of the delay open until next week, senior EU official said. The British parliament is set to v…

bubmagOctober 25, 2019

Animal Protection

4. Schrödinger’s undead cat

bubmagOctober 25, 2019

Feudalism

‘Paper Lions’: A tale of loss and longing in Punjab

The story of the partition of Punjab and Bengal at the time of Independence is known to most in India through school history textbooks. These tumultuous events, however, exist as bit topics in our mind and are now under assault through a revisionist rewriting…

bubmagOctober 25, 2019

Want To Get Rid Of Your Vaping Device? The DEA Will Take It

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

Are the Suburbs Turning Democratic? It Depends Where You Look

The Talented Patricia Highsmith’s Private Diaries Are Going Public

Three decades on, Berlin Wall comes back to life in virtual reality tour

Patterns of Occupied Palestine: Part 3 of Uncountable

Google BERT Update – What it Means via @martinibuster

EU might grant Brexit extension on Friday, but with no date set yet: official

4. Schrödinger’s undead cat

‘Paper Lions’: A tale of loss and longing in Punjab

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