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Solar Storm

Sexual Protocol on a Living Ship

In its first two seasons, Farscape had already been extraordinarily frank about sex for a space opera but the third season takes things even further. At the same time, Moyas crew might have to deal with a dangerous solar storm. Season Three, Episode Two: Sun…

bubmagSeptember 21, 2019

Water Scarcity

Climate Refugees May Reach Many Millions by 2050

—LONDON, 20 March, 2018 The number of climate refugees people migrating to escape the effects of the warming climate could reach many millions in barely 30 years from now, the World Bank says. The total is a conservative one: it is based on just three region…

bubmagSeptember 21, 2019

Scotland

The X-Men and Disney Princesses Team Up in Cool Series of Disney/Marvel Fan Art

With the X-Men characters finally coming home to Marvel Studios thanks to Disney buying Fox, an artist named Marcus Williams was inspired to create some fan art. That fan art brings together several Disney Princesses and teams them up with X-Men characters. T…

bubmagSeptember 21, 2019

Times Square

It’s Scarily Easy To Track Someone Around A City Via Their Instagram Stories

When you create and post an Instagram story in a public space you may be inadvertently giving away far more information about yourself and your movements than you realize. As ubiquitous surveillance intersects with social media data trails, it has become inc…

bubmagSeptember 21, 2019

Unwelcome Refugees

Malta accepts some migrants and refugees from Ocean Viking

Malta has brought a group of 256 migrants and refugees ashore, including 36 from the Ocean Viking rescue ship, but the ship's operators complained that the island's authorities had refused disembarkation for more than 180 others on board. The Maltese armed …

bubmagSeptember 21, 2019

Drones

Saudi Arabia vows to respond to oil attacks with ‘necessary measures’

Media playback is unsupported on your device Media captionThe BBC's Frank Gardner has been given access to the damaged facility in Saudi Arabia Saudi Arabia says it will respond with "necessary measures" to attacks on two oil facilities as it reiterated the…

bubmagSeptember 21, 2019

Yellow Vests

WATCH: Riot Police Chase Yellow Vests Through Paris Train Station, Pianist Plays On Amid Chaos

Yellow Vest protesters seeking respite from tear gas in a Paris train station were accompanied by an unexpected live soundtrack as a talented pianist played on nearby, undeterred by the melée around him. Playing on a public piano, the musician added a dreaml…

bubmagSeptember 21, 2019

NSA

Ed Snowden says he’ll stand trial and even go to prison in the USA if he can have a public trial and mount a public interest defense

On the occasion of the publication of Permanent Record, a memoir of Edward Snowden's journey from gung-ho would-be special forces sergeant to CIA and NSA spy to whistleblower -- a memoir that the US government is suing to repress -- Snowden has given an inter…

bubmagSeptember 21, 2019

Greta Thunberg

Why Moscow’s Climate Strike Turnout Was Devastatingly Small

As Earther reported from New York, 4 million of people in 150 countries turned out for a gigantic global climate strike, a resounding demand to world leaders to act on climate change. Not so much in Russia. While Berlin, London, and Melbourne reported drawin…

bubmagSeptember 21, 2019

Targeted Killings

Security guard kills Palestinian woman with knife at Qalandia checkpoint as B’Tselem questions use of force

West Bank / Jerusalem Ala’ Nafeth Wahdan, 28, shot and killed by Israeli soldiers at Qalandia checkpointIsrael-Palestine Timeline 18 Sept 2019 — Ala Nafeth Wahdan, 28, was shot and killed by Israeli soldiers at Qalandia checkpoint near Jerusalem.…

bubmagSeptember 21, 2019

Sexual Protocol on a Living Ship

Climate Refugees May Reach Many Millions by 2050

The X-Men and Disney Princesses Team Up in Cool Series of Disney/Marvel Fan Art

It’s Scarily Easy To Track Someone Around A City Via Their Instagram Stories

Malta accepts some migrants and refugees from Ocean Viking

Saudi Arabia vows to respond to oil attacks with ‘necessary measures’

WATCH: Riot Police Chase Yellow Vests Through Paris Train Station, Pianist Plays On Amid Chaos

Ed Snowden says he’ll stand trial and even go to prison in the USA if he can have a public trial and mount a public interest defense

Why Moscow’s Climate Strike Turnout Was Devastatingly Small

Security guard kills Palestinian woman with knife at Qalandia checkpoint as B’Tselem questions use of force

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