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Water Pollution

Trump administration goes after California on pollution tied to homelessness

In yet another strike against California, the Trump administration accused the state of "failing to protect Californians from degraded water," specifically citing concerns about waste from homeless populations getting into sewer systems. Interested in Trump …

bubmagSeptember 26, 2019

Solar Storm

Michigan Residents Could Catch a Glimpse of the Northern Lights This Weekend

After giving us some of the best meteor showers and moon events of the year, August is closing with its greatest spectacle yet. As Forbes reports, the northern lights will be visible over several northern U.S. states in the lower 48 this weekend, including Ma…

bubmagSeptember 26, 2019

Christianity

A History of the 7 Deadly Sins, and Why They’re Such a Popular Trope in Fiction

Pride. Greed. Gluttony. Lust. Sloth. Envy And, of course...the Wrath of Khan. These are the Seven Deadly Sins, a list of seven forbidden acts from Christianity that, if committed, equal a one-way ticket to the Bad Place. But theyre also a widely used trope in…

bubmagSeptember 26, 2019

Feudalism

Standing Up: What Men Can Do To Counter Systemic Sexism In The Office

For the last few years, the indignities women must endure to simply be a part of public society have finally shifted to the forefront of public discourse. Its a conversation that started with addressing catcalling and the gender pay gap and moved deeper towar…

bubmagSeptember 26, 2019

Water Scarcity

New Research Warns Severe Climate-Related Droughts Could Threaten 60% of Global Wheat Crop by 2100

Underscoring the necessity of aggressive action to combat human-caused global warming, research published Wednesday warns that the majority of the world's wheat fields are at risk of enduring "severe, prolonged, and near-simultaneous droughts" by the end of t…

bubmagSeptember 26, 2019

Animal Protection

Revealed: Trump’s Wildlife Service pick has ties to anti-animal protection groups (The Guardian)

memeorandum is an auto-generated summary of the stories that US political commentators are discussing online right now. Unlike sister sites Techmeme and Mediagazer, it is not a human-edited news outlet, but rather a media-monitoring tool for sophisticated ne…

bubmagSeptember 26, 2019

Electric Car

Don’t Junk that EV Battery–It Might Power a Town

The Department of Energy has begun to sort out the nation’s next big recycling problem: what to do with batteries used by electric cars. Yesterday, it awarded 15 checks in the amount of $67,000 to the winners of a contest that’s focused on making sure the ba…

bubmagSeptember 26, 2019

Privacy Concerns

Stories About My Brother

When my brother died, I was too shattered to write hisobituary. There is little record of his 29 years of life; it simply vanished. When I type Yush Gupta, Google autofills Yush Gupta death, a brutal reminder that even on the internet, a space where nothing i…

bubmagSeptember 26, 2019

Biological Warfare

Why America Would Never Actually Go and Invade North Korea

Key point: A land invasion would be very costly and a huge mistake. Would the Trump administration actually consider invading North Korea? Such an idea at least seems possible. According to a report in the Wall Street Journal several years ago, an internal …

bubmagSeptember 26, 2019

Hiroshima

Ig Nobel Peace Prize winner Jacques Chirac has died

Jacques Chirac, who was awarded the 1996 Ig Nobel Peace Prize, has died. The 1996 Ig Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to Jacques Chirac, President of France, for commemorating the fiftieth anniversary of Hiroshima with atomic bomb tests in the Pacific. Posted …

bubmagSeptember 26, 2019

Trump administration goes after California on pollution tied to homelessness

Michigan Residents Could Catch a Glimpse of the Northern Lights This Weekend

A History of the 7 Deadly Sins, and Why They’re Such a Popular Trope in Fiction

Standing Up: What Men Can Do To Counter Systemic Sexism In The Office

New Research Warns Severe Climate-Related Droughts Could Threaten 60% of Global Wheat Crop by 2100

Revealed: Trump’s Wildlife Service pick has ties to anti-animal protection groups (The Guardian)

Don’t Junk that EV Battery–It Might Power a Town

Stories About My Brother

Why America Would Never Actually Go and Invade North Korea

Ig Nobel Peace Prize winner Jacques Chirac has died

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