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Star Wars

Alphabet Squadron Is the Closest Thing to an X-Wing Book Star Wars Has Had in Years, and I Love It

When you announce a new Star Wars novel about a ragtag team of hypercompetent pilots, its hard not to immediately draw connections to Michael A. Stackpole and Aaron Allstons work on some of the best Star Wars books of all time: the X-Wing series. Alphabet Squ…

bubmagJune 18, 2019

Blockchain

Crypto Twitter responds to the reality of Facebook’s Libra ‘cryptocurrency’

Following months of speculation, Facebook finally confirmed the release of Libra next year. The tech giant also unveiled details about Calibra, its corresponding custodial digital wallet, but failed to provide specifics about its launch plans. Given the bui…

bubmagJune 18, 2019

Food Industry

3 Dividend Stocks That Pay You More Than Pepsi Does

PepsiCo(NASDAQ:PEP) has been a reliable dividend stock for decades. The company has raised its annual dividend for 47 consecutive years and currently pays a yield of about 3%. On top of that, Pepsi's stock has also outpaced the market over the past year, risi…

bubmagJune 18, 2019

Monsanto

Bayer asks trial judge to reverse US$2 billion Roundup jury verdict

REUTERS: Bayer AG has asked a California judge to overrule a US$2 billion verdict by jurors who found the company's glyphosate-based Roundup weed killer responsible for a couple's cancer, arguing the jury decision was not supported by evidence. The German dr…

bubmagJune 18, 2019

Venezuela

Six climbers trapped by avalanche rescued in Pakistan

Six climbers who were trapped by an avalanche on a mountain in northern Pakistan have been rescued, officials said. Army Helicopters reached the four Italian and two Pakistani mountaineers on Tuesday at an altitude of around 5,300m in the Ghizer district nea…

bubmagJune 18, 2019

Seleção

Copa America 2019 Power Rankings: Where will Messi, Argentina go from here? Uruguay looking like a threat to Brazil

The 2019 Copa America is in full swing, and with Chile's 4-0 win over Japan on Monday night, every single team in the tournament has played a match. 12 teams are vying for the right to become kings of South America, and so far most of the big names have…

bubmagJune 18, 2019

Gundam

Good Fiction, Questionable Science: The Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis

Hello, and welcome to my new monthly(ish) column about language and linguistics in science fiction and fantasy! My name is Conni (CD) Covington, and I have MAs in both German and linguistics. I wrote my linguistics thesis on the effect of usage frequency on v…

bubmagJune 18, 2019

Boeing 737max

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bubmagJune 18, 2019

Climate Change

See How Climate Change Has Affected Your Area With ‘Warming Stripes’

The earth has been warming for decades, but year-to-year changes are hard to watch in real time. Was this winter really less snowy than usual? Now theres a handy way to see how your areas average yearly temperature has varied over time. The tool is called Sh…

bubmagJune 18, 2019

Bubble

The science behind those viral videos of freezing soap bubbles

Farzad Ahmadi and Christian Kingett It took a YouTube video, a walk-in freezer kept at negative 20 degrees Celsius, and some very cold-tolerant engineering students for researchers to finally figure out why freezing soap bubbles resemble glitter in a snow gl…

bubmagJune 18, 2019

Alphabet Squadron Is the Closest Thing to an X-Wing Book Star Wars Has Had in Years, and I Love It

Crypto Twitter responds to the reality of Facebook’s Libra ‘cryptocurrency’

3 Dividend Stocks That Pay You More Than Pepsi Does

Bayer asks trial judge to reverse US$2 billion Roundup jury verdict

Six climbers trapped by avalanche rescued in Pakistan

Copa America 2019 Power Rankings: Where will Messi, Argentina go from here? Uruguay looking like a threat to Brazil

Good Fiction, Questionable Science: The Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis

(Google Security Blog, 6/18)モuspici…

See How Climate Change Has Affected Your Area With ‘Warming Stripes’

The science behind those viral videos of freezing soap bubbles

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