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Greta Thunberg

Greta Thunberg inspires massive turnout at Edmonton climate rally – CTV News

EDMONTON -- Protesters on both sides of the climate change debate descended on downtown Edmonton as a high-profile activist came to town. Greta Thunberg arrived in Edmonton Friday for the Strike for Climate Action. The march began at Beaver Hills House Park …

bubmagOctober 18, 2019

SpaceX

Rocket Report: The Falcon 9 goes for four, Boeing’s big cost-plus deal

Enlarge/ A Falcon 9 rocket launches from Vandenberg Air Force Base. 3 with 3 posters participating Welcome to Edition 2.19 of the Rocket Report! Plenty of news this week from the small side of things (two new Pegasus rockets are going on the market) to the …

bubmagOctober 18, 2019

Refugees Welcome

Banksy Launches a New Online Store: Make Purchases Through October 28

Has Banksy sold out? Fans and critics alike of the street-art provocateur-turned-globally recognizable brand can argue that question endlessly. But we do know, at least, that Banksy sells: earlier this month he broke his own record when his 2009 painting Devo…

bubmagOctober 18, 2019

Korean War

Nurses who kill: Medical murderers and the mystery of the Clarksburg VA hospital in West Virginia

George Nelson Shaw Sr. died at a VA hospital in West Virginia in 2018. His death was ruled a homicide by an Armed Forces medical examiner. It's one of 10 deaths under investigation by authorities. Jack Gruber, USA TODAY Nurse Charles Cullen worked at nine …

bubmagOctober 18, 2019

Belt and Road

Links 10/18/19

Abandoned by Great White Sharks, Cape Town Is Now Short of Whales, Too Bloomberg Extraordinary pictures of the most ancient trees on Earth Gizmodo (David L) Study: California’s big July quakes strain major fault Associated Press (David L) The US military i…

bubmagOctober 18, 2019

Hrant Dink

Syrian Christians Brave Insecurity to Stay Behind and Help

Though most of the fighting has stopped for now, Turkey’s incursion on Kurdish-controlled northern Syria has left another humanitarian crisis in its wake. Local churches as well as Christian organizations like Open Doors and Preemptive Love Coalition have pr…

bubmagOctober 18, 2019

Belt and Road

China’s Maritime Strategic Challenge

China is working to end U.S. military predominance in Asia, and likely beyond. This forces U.S. officials to rethink how military security relates to trade and investment. U.S. officials are urging friends around the world to join the reexamination. How to r…

bubmagOctober 18, 2019

Belt and Road

China’s Maritime Strategic Challenge

The Chinese aircraft carrier Liaoning takes part in drills in the western Pacific, April 2018.(Stringer/Reuters) America and its allies must cooperate to counter the military-commercial threat.China is working to end U.S. military predominance in Asia, and l…

bubmagOctober 18, 2019

Black Hole

Making ‘HERstory’: Space station’s 2 women prep for first all-female spacewalk

NASA will try to conduct an all-female spacewalk months after the first attempt had to be canceled because of a lack of available spacesuits. USA TODAY CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. Men have floated out the hatch on all 420 spacewalks conducted over the past half-…

bubmagOctober 18, 2019

Bees

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bubmagOctober 18, 2019

Greta Thunberg inspires massive turnout at Edmonton climate rally – CTV News

Rocket Report: The Falcon 9 goes for four, Boeing’s big cost-plus deal

Banksy Launches a New Online Store: Make Purchases Through October 28

Nurses who kill: Medical murderers and the mystery of the Clarksburg VA hospital in West Virginia

Links 10/18/19

Syrian Christians Brave Insecurity to Stay Behind and Help

China’s Maritime Strategic Challenge

China’s Maritime Strategic Challenge

Making ‘HERstory’: Space station’s 2 women prep for first all-female spacewalk

Wax Work Honey

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