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Star Wars

Here’s what it looks like when the Millennium Falcon breaks down

What happens when the Millennium Falcon breaks down? I mean, aside from that whole cant-make-the-jump-to-lightspeed, hide-in-the-space-slug, float-away-with-the-Star-Destroyers-garbage thing Han Solo did 39 years ago. As this Instagram users video shows, when…

bubmagJune 15, 2019

Global Warming

This remarkable Greenland photo highlights extreme Arctic melting

The melting Arctic is on dramatic display. At mid-June, Arctic sea ice is now at a record low for this time of year, and melted ice is especially notable both in and around Greenland home to the second largest ice sheet on the planet. Steffen Olsen, a climat…

bubmagJune 15, 2019

Slavery Abolition

Central Park Five doco demonstrates Trump’s US house still divided against itself

OPINION: Television has a way of slapping us in the face by bringing past injustices alive to confront us. This month the Netflix documentary When They See Us was released. It recounts a famous New York City miscarriage of justice that divided the city along …

bubmagJune 15, 2019

Cold War

CSIS destroyed secret file on Pierre Trudeau, stunning historians

Canada's spy service destroyed a Cold War dossier on Pierre Trudeau in 1989 instead of turning it over to the national archives, The Canadian Press has learned. The Canadian Security Intelligence Service says the secret file on the former prime minister was …

bubmagJune 15, 2019

New York City

‘A mental health crisis’: 3 NYPD officers die by suicide in 10 days

New York City Police officials gather along Wilcox Street behind the 121st Precinct station house following a report of a police officer shot in the Staten Island borough on June 14, 2019. (Photo: Joseph Ostapiuk, AP) At 3:50 p.m. Friday afternoon, a 29-ye…

bubmagJune 15, 2019

NSA

New trailers you need to watch from this week: ‘Frozen 2,’ ‘Doctor Sleep,’ and more

We’ve just seen them ruling New Asgard in Avengers: Endgame, but this weekend will bring us a new film starring Chris Hemsworth and Tessa Thompson. This time, they’re not Asgardians on Earth. They’re actually alien hunters, starring in the Men In Black reboot…

bubmagJune 15, 2019

Super Heroes

Netflix’s Jessica Jones: Season 3 Review

When it comes to superhero stories, there's a widely held belief that a hero is only as good as their villain - and in the case of Marvel's Netflix shows, the bad guy (or lack thereof) can make or break a season. Jessica Jones has had an interesting relations…

bubmagJune 15, 2019

New York City

How I Found Out Nicky Barnes Was Dead

In the old days, he said meekly, I wouldve been embarrassed. Frank Lucas died last month. When I read his obituary, prepared in advance by Robert McFadden, I wondered: Whatever happened to Nicky Barnes? The United States Marshals Service does not release pr…

bubmagJune 15, 2019

Self-driving Vehicles

The Wall Street Journal: Self-driving cars have a problem: They’re making human-driven ones safer

If you buy one of many new makes and models of car today, you might be surprised to find that, as a standard feature, it can do something your previous car couldnt: It will take over when it thinks youre making a mistake. In the coming years, many cars will…

bubmagJune 15, 2019

Silk Road

The Development of India’s “Space Force”. Geopolitical and Strategic Implications

Whether its through its recent anti-satellite missile test, its newly created de-facto Space Force, or its plans to build a space station around 2030, Indias stepping up the pace of the South Asian space race and greatly destabilizing the region in the proces…

bubmagJune 15, 2019

Here’s what it looks like when the Millennium Falcon breaks down

This remarkable Greenland photo highlights extreme Arctic melting

Central Park Five doco demonstrates Trump’s US house still divided against itself

CSIS destroyed secret file on Pierre Trudeau, stunning historians

‘A mental health crisis’: 3 NYPD officers die by suicide in 10 days

New trailers you need to watch from this week: ‘Frozen 2,’ ‘Doctor Sleep,’ and more

Netflix’s Jessica Jones: Season 3 Review

How I Found Out Nicky Barnes Was Dead

The Wall Street Journal: Self-driving cars have a problem: They’re making human-driven ones safer

The Development of India’s “Space Force”. Geopolitical and Strategic Implications

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