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Computers in School

Here’s What It’s Like to Teach Artificial Intelligence to High Schoolers

Philadelphia Artificial Intelligence is all over the headlines, but it's not all over K-12 curriculca—yet. Many high schools are still struggling to offer computer science, much less instruction in cutting-edge systems that are designed to take in massive am…

bubmagJune 25, 2019

The Queen

Who Pays for the Royal Family’s Glamour?

Buckingham Palace has released its annual financial report, and you can probably guess which story the tabloids ran with: The eye-popping cost of Harry and Meghans renovations at Frogmore Cottage, which came to roughly $3 million. What makes that price tag pa…

bubmagJune 25, 2019

Hiroshima

16 Savage Teddy Roosevelt Insults

Before he assumed the pen name George Orwell, Eric Arthur Blair had a relatively normal upbringing for an upper-middle-class English boy of his time. Looking back now, his life proved to be anything but ordinary. He's best known for penning the dystopian nove…

bubmagJune 25, 2019

Palestine

Trump puts the cart before the horse in Palestine

After a long wait, the Trump team led by Jared Kushner just released its blueprint for how to grow the Palestinian economy, and a glitzy workshop is being held Tuesday and Wednesday in Bahrain. As the U.S government official who from 2013-2017 was responsibl…

bubmagJune 25, 2019

Slavery Abolition

Stonewall’s Legacy and Kwame Anthony Appiah’s Misuse of History

Alan Singer is the author of New York's Grand Emancipation Jubilee: Essays on Slavery, Resistance, Abolition, Teaching, and Historical Memory(Albany, NY: SUNY Press, 2018). In a recent op-ed in the New York Times, “Stonewall and the Myth of Self-Deliverance …

bubmagJune 25, 2019

Matteo Salvini

Captain of Sea-Watch threatens to run Italy ‘blockade’

The captain of the Sea-Watch 3 charity rescue vessel threatened Tuesday to enter Italian waters illegally to bring 42 migrants to shore after they spent 13 days in limbo at sea. Interior Minister Matteo Salvini has banned the Dutch-flagged vessel from approa…

bubmagJune 25, 2019

Recycling

See a Just-Retired Qantas Boeing 747 at an Airplane Recycling Center

While British Airways is celebrating the final few years of its 747 fleet with a recent refresh, many carriers have begun retiring their 747s. Others, like Delta and United, have completed the process altogether. Australia’s flag carrier Qantas continues to …

bubmagJune 25, 2019

Silk Road

Everything You Need to Know About the True Origins of the Everything Bagel

Sesame and poppy seeds, dried onion and garlic, coarse salt. In a word: Everything. chrislearyphoto / Shutterstock The everything bagel is the king of bagels. On this there should be no argument. In the same way that it combines all of the key bagel toppings…

bubmagJune 25, 2019

Climate Change

Oregon Climate Bill Appears Dead After Some Ridiculous Bullshit You Can’t Make Up

A landmark climate change bill that appeared on the brink of passing the Oregon state legislature last week now seems to be dead. The states senate was set to take up a vote on a cap-and-trade bill that would have used a market mechanism (favored by conserva…

bubmagJune 25, 2019

Seleção

Copa America Remains Wide Open Entering Quarterfinals

After 13 days of group stage action in Brazil, which featured a mixed bag of quality and entertainment, Copa America is finally ready for the quarterfinal stage and the promise of knockout, go-big-or-go-home South American drama. Make no mistake about it: t…

bubmagJune 25, 2019

Here’s What It’s Like to Teach Artificial Intelligence to High Schoolers

Who Pays for the Royal Family’s Glamour?

16 Savage Teddy Roosevelt Insults

Trump puts the cart before the horse in Palestine

Stonewall’s Legacy and Kwame Anthony Appiah’s Misuse of History

Captain of Sea-Watch threatens to run Italy ‘blockade’

See a Just-Retired Qantas Boeing 747 at an Airplane Recycling Center

Everything You Need to Know About the True Origins of the Everything Bagel

Oregon Climate Bill Appears Dead After Some Ridiculous Bullshit You Can’t Make Up

Copa America Remains Wide Open Entering Quarterfinals

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