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Greta Thunberg

How to Watch Greta Thunberg’s Testimony at the United Nations’ Climate Action Summit

On Monday, 16-year-old activist Greta Thunberg testified before the United Nations as part of the Climate Action Summitand tore world leaders a new one. I shouldnt be up here, she said. I should be back in school on the other side of the ocean. Yet you all c…

bubmagSeptember 24, 2019

Old-Age Poverty

‘Report card’ on diet trends: Low-quality carbs account for 42 percent of a day’s calories

Despite years of steady advice and guidance on healthy eating, a 'report card' on the American diet shows adults are still consuming too many low-quality carbohydrates and more saturated fat than recommended, according to researchers at the Friedman School of…

bubmagSeptember 24, 2019

Black Hole

NASA black hole safety video warns you’ll be stretched into a giant noodle – CNET

NASA knows a thing or two about black holes. Video screenshot by Amanda Kooser/CNET I learned a lot by watching NASA's Guide to Black Hole Safety, an animated video the Goddard Space Flight Center released on Monday. I learned a black hole is not a porta…

bubmagSeptember 24, 2019

Super Komachi

Modi 2.0 seeing stronger India-Japan ties

The visit of Prime Minister Narendra Modi to Japan for the G20 Summit in Osaka gave him an opportunity to exchange views with with his Japanese counterpart Shinzo Abe for the first time in his second term. Earlier this year, Modi came back to power with a dec…

bubmagSeptember 24, 2019

Air Pollution

Scientists have found air pollution particles in pregnant women’s placenta

Getty Images/Ikon Images This is the first study to show just how close soot can get to the fetus. You know it as soot. Scientists know it as black carbon. And pregnant women may begin to know it as an unwelcome stowaway in the womb. A new study shows that…

bubmagSeptember 24, 2019

Machine Learning

Kinetica BrandVoice: Cloudy Edge Or Edgy Cloud?

5 strategies for leveraging edge computing for enterprise applicationsBy Irina Farooq, CPO, Kinetica Every discussion of edge computing ought to start with a definition, because to date, just as with the early conversations about the cloud, there is no colle…

bubmagSeptember 24, 2019

Matteo Salvini

The Brief, sponsored by EDAA – Deal with the real issue in the Mediterranean

Last weekend, Italy, Malta, France and Germany reached a deal on sharing the burden of asylum seekers who arrive via sea from North Africa. On the surface, it’s a welcome humanitarian initiative that will help save lives in the central Mediterranean. Under t…

bubmagSeptember 24, 2019

Little Red Riding Hood

Magnetic wallpaper receives grand prize in first Etsy Design Awards

NEW YORK Sian Zeng, who merges her love of fine art and textile design in whimsical, magnetic wallpaper, is the grand prize winner of the first Etsy Design Awards, announced Tuesday. And she owes it to dinosaurs and Little Red Riding Hood. The London-based …

bubmagSeptember 24, 2019

Animal Protection

Black panther that prowled rooftops in French town kidnapped from zoo

The black panther that was spotted last week climbing rooftops in a Northern French town was kidnapped from the zoo where she had been transferred, city authorities said on Tuesday. The animal had climbed a gutter and entered a dwelling in Armentières, Fran…

bubmagSeptember 24, 2019

Global Warming

What I Saw Inside the Messy, Desperate Chaos of the UN Climate Summit

The dozens of world leaders and business executives who delivered speeches about global warming on Monday at the United Nations made a big show of acknowledging how seriously they take the climate emergency without actually naming or confronting the biggest b…

bubmagSeptember 24, 2019

How to Watch Greta Thunberg’s Testimony at the United Nations’ Climate Action Summit

‘Report card’ on diet trends: Low-quality carbs account for 42 percent of a day’s calories

NASA black hole safety video warns you’ll be stretched into a giant noodle – CNET

Modi 2.0 seeing stronger India-Japan ties

Scientists have found air pollution particles in pregnant women’s placenta

Kinetica BrandVoice: Cloudy Edge Or Edgy Cloud?

The Brief, sponsored by EDAA – Deal with the real issue in the Mediterranean

Magnetic wallpaper receives grand prize in first Etsy Design Awards

Black panther that prowled rooftops in French town kidnapped from zoo

What I Saw Inside the Messy, Desperate Chaos of the UN Climate Summit

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