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Feudalism

D&D: The Five NPCs You Meet In Heaven

Death might have a hard time sticking when it comes to adventurers, but that doesn’t mean you can’t make some friends along the way. Life and death are two halves of the same coin, and being a coin, it’s certain to be an object that adventurers will snatch u…

bubmagSeptember 4, 2019

Iran Liberalism

30 Great Movies That Defined the 2010s

Perhaps it goes without saying, but the most culturally significant movie of the 2010s is The Avengers. There were many decades of superhero movies before the release of Joss Whedons 2012 box-office behemoth, and the move toward the stylish, ideologically mat…

bubmagSeptember 4, 2019

Riots

South African businesses in Nigeria attacked as diplomatic rift grows over xenophobic riots

Mr Ramaphosa unequivocally condemned the violence, which had largely abated by Wednesday morning after police made nearly 300 arrests and deployed in the townships in large numbers. Taking action against people from other nations is not justified and should …

bubmagSeptember 4, 2019

Skateboard

It’s Time to Hit the Slopes and Get Stomped

From popular Noodlecake, the game features the downhill rush of the slopes with the tricks of skateboarding. One of the best features of the game is a great control system. With swipe controls, you can easily string together a number of different tricks for…

bubmagSeptember 4, 2019

Feudalism

Critical essays (including mine) discuss Toronto’s plan to let Google build a surveillance-based “smart city” along its waterfront

Sidewalk Labs is Google’s sister company that sells “smart city” technology; its showcase partner is Toronto, my hometown, where it has made a creepy shitshow out of its freshman outing, from the mass resignations of its privacy advisors to the underhanded wa…

bubmagSeptember 4, 2019

Climate Change

Immigration! Influencers! Climate Change! What to Expect This Fashion Month

Not everyone is convinced of their sincerity, however. Extinction Rebellion, the climate activists, have announced plans to disrupt London Fashion Week. There will be protests. Traffic will be bad. And speaking of action: Stella McCartney, who announced the …

bubmagSeptember 4, 2019

Singapore

Solutions to urban heat differ between tropical and drier climes

In summer heat, cities may swelter more than nearby suburbs and rural areas. And while the size of this urban heat island effect varies widely among the world's cities, heat island intensity can largely be explained by a city's population and precipitation le…

bubmagSeptember 4, 2019

Chinese Expansionism

Steaming back into the Indo-Pacific

An exchange in 1964 between U.S. diplomat Chester Bowles and Triloki Nath Kaul, Indias then Ambassador to Moscow, offers a fascinating insight into contemporary geopolitics. While discussing South East Asia, Bowles said, it would be a good thing if India coul…

bubmagSeptember 4, 2019

Biological Warfare

Munitions factories are a hazard to communities

Eight workers were killed in the explosion at the Rheinmetall Denel Munitions factory in the Macassar area of Somerset West last year, and the building was demolished in the blast. Picture: Tracey Adams/African News Agency (ANA) Section 24 of South Africas C…

bubmagSeptember 4, 2019

Slavery Abolition

Margaret Atwood’s powerful ‘The Testaments’ picks up 15 years after ‘Handmaid’s Tale’

I only ever write novels about things that I dont know, she says via phone. When I first started The Testaments, things had changed: For a while, we were going away from The Handmaids Tale, but now were going towards it. In real life. And in real life, totali…

bubmagSeptember 4, 2019

D&D: The Five NPCs You Meet In Heaven

30 Great Movies That Defined the 2010s

South African businesses in Nigeria attacked as diplomatic rift grows over xenophobic riots

It’s Time to Hit the Slopes and Get Stomped

Critical essays (including mine) discuss Toronto’s plan to let Google build a surveillance-based “smart city” along its waterfront

Immigration! Influencers! Climate Change! What to Expect This Fashion Month

Solutions to urban heat differ between tropical and drier climes

Steaming back into the Indo-Pacific

Munitions factories are a hazard to communities

Margaret Atwood’s powerful ‘The Testaments’ picks up 15 years after ‘Handmaid’s Tale’

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