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Refugees

EU leaders seek tough unified message against Turkey’s Syria offensive

BRUSSELS (Reuters) - European Union leaders will seek a common front against their NATO ally Turkey at a summit on Thursday and condemn Ankara’s offensive in northern Syria, while considering further ways to pressure it to pull back. Days after EU governmen…

bubmagOctober 17, 2019

Machine Learning

RSTV: IN DEPTH- ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE

RSTV: IN DEPTH- ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE Introduction: At the two day Group of 20 summit in Osaka in Japan, Prime Minister Narendra Modi underscored the significance of Digital Economy & Artificial Intelligence. He emphasised the government’s…

bubmagOctober 17, 2019

Chinese Economy

US-China trade war: Beijing’s ‘ultimate goal’ – Fox Business

China says it's fighting a trade war with the United States for one reason. “The ultimate goal of the consultations between the two sides is to stop the trade war and cancel all the additional tariffs, which is beneficial to China, to the United States, and …

bubmagOctober 17, 2019

Obamacare

Thursday assorted links

In an effort to bridge the raskol, Brazil's President, Captain Bolsonaro, has nominated his son, Mr. Bolsonaro, the new party leader at the House. Respond

bubmagOctober 17, 2019

Moravec‘s Paradox

The Time Signature of ‘The Terminator’ Score

The Terminator, a merciless cyborg, cares not for time signatures. Still courtesy Hemdale Film/20th Century Fox Home Entertainment As The Terminator celebrates its 30th anniversary this year, the film continues to raise important questions. What are the ris…

bubmagOctober 17, 2019

Super Heroes

Undiscovered Country #1 from Scott Snyder, Charles Soule and Giuseppe Camuncoli Dominates Advance Reorders

There’s no competition. Undiscovered Country #1 from Scott Snyder, Charles Soule and Giuseppe Camuncoli dominates the advance reorder chart this week, with two placements for two covers, first and seventh. With the Jonathan Hickman showrun Dawn of X books fit…

bubmagOctober 17, 2019

Black Hole

Bill Cunningham: On the Street

Until his death in 2016, Bill Cunningham captured the fashions of people walking the streets and catwalks of NYC and elsewhere, mostly for the NY Times over the past five decades. A new book, Bill Cunningham: On the Street, is the first published collection o…

bubmagOctober 17, 2019

Scotland

What Atul Gawande Got Wrong about U.S. Health Care Spending

Image: flickr A decade ago, Harvard surgeon Atul Gawande helped popularize the idea that health care spending is high because we use too much medicine. He was wrong: it’s the prices, and who pays them. Priced Out: The Economic and Ethical Costs of American …

bubmagOctober 17, 2019

Christianity

Report: Christianity declining in America at ‘rapid pace’

Christianity in America is declining at a "rapid pace," according to startling new analysis from The Pew Research Center. The report found that the majority of Americans 65 percent still describe themselves as Christians, though the proportion has significan…

bubmagOctober 17, 2019

Paris

Celebrities like Rihanna and Kim Kardashian are bringing high-heeled flip flops back from the early 2000s

Whether you love them or hate them, heeled flip flops are officially back in style. Not only did Rihanna wear them while walking around New York City this week, but celebrities like Kim Kardashian West and Emily Ratajkowski have also donned the shoes in rece…

bubmagOctober 17, 2019

EU leaders seek tough unified message against Turkey’s Syria offensive

RSTV: IN DEPTH- ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE

US-China trade war: Beijing’s ‘ultimate goal’ – Fox Business

Thursday assorted links

The Time Signature of ‘The Terminator’ Score

Undiscovered Country #1 from Scott Snyder, Charles Soule and Giuseppe Camuncoli Dominates Advance Reorders

Bill Cunningham: On the Street

What Atul Gawande Got Wrong about U.S. Health Care Spending

Report: Christianity declining in America at ‘rapid pace’

Celebrities like Rihanna and Kim Kardashian are bringing high-heeled flip flops back from the early 2000s

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