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Super Komachi

A year after stabbing, Japan’s shinkansen wrestle with balance between safety and convenience

A year after a knife attack on a bullet train left one passenger dead and two wounded, authorities and railways are trying to take steps especially visible ones to prevent similar crimes. Experts are calling to start baggage inspections at train stations, th…

bubmagJune 17, 2019

Belt and Road

Sold into marriage, Pakistani women endure rapes in China

At first, in her desperate calls home to her mother in Pakistan, Natasha Masih couldnt bring herself to say what they were doing to her. All the 19-year-old would say was that her new husband a Chinese man her family sold her off to in marriage was torturin…

bubmagJune 17, 2019

Xi Jinping

Asian shares wobble amid trade, geopolitical tensions; focus on Fed meeting

TOKYO (Reuters) - Asian shares wobbled near one-week lows on Monday as investors turned cautious ahead of a closely-watched Federal Reserve meeting, while political tensions in the Middle East and Hong Kong kept risk appetite in check. European stock were e…

bubmagJune 17, 2019

Moravec‘s Paradox

A new robot can now identify objects by touch

Researchers at MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) have had a breakthrough in giving a robot the human-like ability to determine what an object looks like just by touching it, as well as predict what an object will feel like …

bubmagJune 17, 2019

Belt and Road

What now for the New Silk Road?

With member states divided, the EU is pursuing a pragmatic approach vis-à-vis Chinas Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), also raising some issues of concern, writes Fraser Cameron. Fraser Cameron is Director of the EU-Asia Centre. It is a pity that China did no…

bubmagJune 17, 2019

Bees

Bees required to create an excellent blueberry crop

IMAGE: Southeast blueberry bees are best at pollinating rabbiteye blueberries. view more Credit: Photo credit Blair Sampson, ARS. BATON ROUGE, LOUISIANA, June 17, 2019--Getting an excellent rabbiteye blueberry harvest requires helpful pollinators--partic…

bubmagJune 17, 2019

Recycling

‘biopack’ by george bosnas is packaging made from seeds that grow when planted

even though there are many people who think recycling is enough of a contribution to the environment, greek designer george bosnas thinks the traditional waste management process uses high energy and is a costly operation. he argues it becomes expensive to pr…

bubmagJune 17, 2019

Nuclear Disarmament

‘Central to strategy’: Nuclear powers still upgrading warheads

"It is clear that nuclear weapons remain a central element in their military strategies and national security doctrines," he added, citing that nuclear weapons "have not lost their perceived value for national security." Nine states are acknowledged to posse…

bubmagJune 17, 2019

Venezuela

We should all rise above ‘gutter politics’

MP SPEAKS | I was struck by three media reports yesterday. Firstly, a Reuters report about the terrible humanitarian crisis in Venezuela, once one of the 20 richest countries in the world and the richest in Latin America with free education and free medical …

bubmagJune 17, 2019

Biological Warfare

Sleepless nights linked to high blood pressure

Skip to comments. Sleepless nights linked to high blood pressureMedical XPress ^ | June 4, 2019 | University of Arizona Posted on 06/16/2019 5:59:23 PM PDT by ConservativeMind A bad night's sleep may result in a spike in blood pressure that night and t…

bubmagJune 17, 2019

A year after stabbing, Japan’s shinkansen wrestle with balance between safety and convenience

Sold into marriage, Pakistani women endure rapes in China

Asian shares wobble amid trade, geopolitical tensions; focus on Fed meeting

A new robot can now identify objects by touch

What now for the New Silk Road?

Bees required to create an excellent blueberry crop

‘biopack’ by george bosnas is packaging made from seeds that grow when planted

‘Central to strategy’: Nuclear powers still upgrading warheads

We should all rise above ‘gutter politics’

Sleepless nights linked to high blood pressure

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