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Hrant Dink

At UN, a world stage for disputes often out of the spotlight

The Middle East. Trade tensions. Iran's nuclear program. Venezuela's power struggle. Civil wars in Syria and Yemen. Familiar flash points such as these got plenty of airtime at the U.N. General Assembly's big annual gathering this week. But some leaders used…

bubmagSeptember 28, 2019

Climate Change

Gas station converting to EV chargers is a 2019 feel-good story

In these times, climate change and the effects of a warming planet are top of mind, especially with recent extreme weather events, Donald Trump administration policy roll-backs, and climate activists like Greta Thunberg reminding us how we're destroying her f…

bubmagSeptember 28, 2019

Super Komachi

Bogey Spotted: High speed railing against each other

The youtube channel Curious Droid recently produced a video comparing Japan’s Shinkansen railway the France’s TGV (Train à Grande Vitesse, or “high-speed train”). The video also covers some history of high speed rail and its origins – and the US’s missed opp…

bubmagSeptember 28, 2019

Bubble

The Age of Bathfluence

For the average home dweller, taking a bath used to be a private endeavor: fill a giant porcelain bowl with warm water, strip naked, submerge your corporeal form, rinse, repeat. The only people whose bath times were made public were babies, Liberace, and Holl…

bubmagSeptember 28, 2019

Elon Musk

SpaceX shows off its new Starship tonight. Here’s how to watch

Today we should get a first look at SpaceX’s Starship project, which the company describes as “a fully, rapidly reusable transportation system designed to carry both crew and cargo to Earth orbit, the Moon, Mars, and anywhere else in the solar system.” This n…

bubmagSeptember 28, 2019

SpaceX

Elon Musk to Deliver SpaceX Starship Presentation

Neither SpaceX nor Boeing, which also received a contract for providing transportation for NASA astronauts, appears to be on track to launch crews this year. When the contracts were awarded in 2014, NASA hoped that the flights would begin as early as 2017. W…

bubmagSeptember 28, 2019

Black Hole

NASA’s space telescopes see black hole shredding star – Xinhua | English.news.cn – Xinhua

WASHINGTON, Sept. 28 (Xinhua) -- The U.S. space agency NASA's planet-hunting Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) have observed the rarely-seen aftermath of a star that was violently ripped apart by a supermassive black hole. The study published in t…

bubmagSeptember 28, 2019

Bees

Everything you need to know about bees in Minecraft

Even ten years after its initial beta release Minecraft continues to evolve at an increasingly rapid pace in its quest to develop a natural world teeming with life. The latest addition to Minecraft recently has been the arrival of, you guessed it, bees! In th…

bubmagSeptember 28, 2019

Anti-Putin Protests

Russia’s Eastern Mediterranean strategy

Russia is taking advantage of the power vacuum created by America’s desire to disengage from the Middle East. As president, Barack Obama launched the policy of “pivoting” away from the region, and President Donald Trump is carrying that policy forward. As a r…

bubmagSeptember 28, 2019

Elon Musk

How to Watch Elon Musk’s SpaceX Starship Update Live Today

Tonight (Sept. 28) Elon Musk will provide an update about SpaceX's new Starship and Super Heavy rocket, and you can watch him announce the news live online. Tune in at 8 p.m. EDT (0000 GMT) to hear Musk discuss the new design of the rocket-spacecraft combo, …

bubmagSeptember 28, 2019

At UN, a world stage for disputes often out of the spotlight

Gas station converting to EV chargers is a 2019 feel-good story

Bogey Spotted: High speed railing against each other

The Age of Bathfluence

SpaceX shows off its new Starship tonight. Here’s how to watch

Elon Musk to Deliver SpaceX Starship Presentation

NASA’s space telescopes see black hole shredding star – Xinhua | English.news.cn – Xinhua

Everything you need to know about bees in Minecraft

Russia’s Eastern Mediterranean strategy

How to Watch Elon Musk’s SpaceX Starship Update Live Today

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