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Tayyip Erdogan

Turkish F-35 pilots no longer flying at US base amid S-400 row

The United States has stopped the training of Turkish pilots on F-35 fighters at an airbase in Arizona, US officials said, as Washington winds down Ankara's involvement in the programme over Turkey's plans to buy a Russian air defence system. The move at Luk…

bubmagJune 11, 2019

Holocaust

Alexander Chee’s Lovely Letter to Children About How Books Save Us

A book must be the axe for the frozen sea inside us, Franz Kafka wrote to his childhood best friend. For Alexander Chee, another writer of titanic talent, Kafka’s metaphor came alive in his own childhood when his family moved from Guam to America, relinquishi…

bubmagJune 11, 2019

eSports

These three segments have set online entertainment on fire in India

Indias internet economy is booming courtesy video, esports, and music. The countrys over-the-top (OTT) market is slated to nearly triple in size between now and 2023, growing at a 21.8% compound annual growth rate (CAGR) from Rs4,464 crore ($643 million) in …

bubmagJune 11, 2019

Super Komachi

Perfect on paper, so where are all the maglev trains?

Maglev trains, a term that comes from a blend between magnetic and levitation, offer so much promise. You may have heard of the so-called floating trains, and the term is accurate and deliverable today. So where are they? What is a maglev train? The idea be…

bubmagJune 11, 2019

Feudalism

A plea for science literacy

Information Minister Fawad Chaudhry. PHOTO: FILE The HIV crisis in the heart of Sindh has exposed gaping holes in our health system. It has also shown that behind the veneer of progressive politics by the ruling party in the province is a dark reality of fe…

bubmagJune 11, 2019

Tayyip Erdogan

Turkish F-35 pilots no longer flying at US base: Pentagon

“Without a change in Turkish policy, we will continue to work closely with our Turkish ally on winding down their participation in the F-35 program.” (Reuters) Training by Turkish pilots on F-35 fighter jets has come to a faster-than-expected halt at a US ai…

bubmagJune 11, 2019

Paris

France Doesn’t See Race (Officially). A Blackface Performance Challenged That.

PARIS—Among the plays scheduled for Sorbonne University’s annual ancient theater festival this year was The Suppliants, by the ancient Greek playwright Aeschylus. Just days before its performance in March, though, students contacted Louis-Georges Tin, the hon…

bubmagJune 11, 2019

Solar Storm

The Great Aurora of 1859

On the evening of September 2, 1859, after the sun went down on the western hemisphere, a spectacular show of light began on the skies above. Streams of luminous cloud in blue, green, purple and sometimes red shot upwards from the horizon in the north and fil…

bubmagJune 11, 2019

Scotland

Scientists uncover evidence of ancient giant meteor strike in Scotland

A team of scientists led by Ken Amor from the Department of Earth Sciences at Oxford University has uncovered evidence of the largest meteor ever to strike the British Isles. Based on scattered debris material first discovered near Ullapool, northwest Scotlan…

bubmagJune 11, 2019

Monsanto

De l’agent orange étasunien au Roundup européen : Le Vietnam poursuit sa lutte ! Par Guillaume Suing

Source : Le Grand Soir, Guillaume Suing, 15-04-2019 Le Vietnam vient dinterdire sur son sol lusage du célèbre glyphosate, fleuron du géant euro-étasunien Bayer-Monsanto, mieux connu sous son nom commercial Roundup. Cette décision, dans le sillage de la résis…

bubmagJune 11, 2019

Turkish F-35 pilots no longer flying at US base amid S-400 row

Alexander Chee’s Lovely Letter to Children About How Books Save Us

These three segments have set online entertainment on fire in India

Perfect on paper, so where are all the maglev trains?

A plea for science literacy

Turkish F-35 pilots no longer flying at US base: Pentagon

France Doesn’t See Race (Officially). A Blackface Performance Challenged That.

The Great Aurora of 1859

Scientists uncover evidence of ancient giant meteor strike in Scotland

De l’agent orange étasunien au Roundup européen : Le Vietnam poursuit sa lutte ! Par Guillaume Suing

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