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Trade War

Asia stocks, bond yields rise as trade war fears ease

TOKYO (Reuters) - Asian stocks tracked global peers higher on Tuesday while safe-haven bonds sold off as signs Sino-U.S. trade hostilities might be easing helped restore investor confidence after the previous session’s rout. Supporting the market mood, U.S.…

bubmagAugust 27, 2019

Super Heroes

No Spider-Man? No problem. Ms. Marvel is here to save the MCU.

By now, you’ve heard the news: Spider-Man has broken up with the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Sony says it’s over. Marvel Studios president Kevin Feige says it’s over. Spider-Man himself, Tom Holland, says it’s over. Whether you think everyone will end up okay …

bubmagAugust 27, 2019

Matteo Salvini

Memo to Italy’s president: your researchers need you

Matteo Salvini (left) of the Lega party and Giuseppe Conte (right) of the Five Star Movement. The latter reads his resignation statement. Both parties had promised more funds for universities before Salvini pulled his party out of the governing coalition.Cred…

bubmagAugust 27, 2019

Matteo Salvini

Memo to Italy’s president: your researchers need you

Matteo Salvini (left) of the Lega party and Giuseppe Conte (right) of the Five Star Movement. The latter reads his resignation statement. Both parties had promised more funds for universities before Salvini pulled his party out of the governing coalition.Cred…

bubmagAugust 27, 2019

New York City

Blue-Green Algae That Can Kill Dogs Has Just Been Found in New York City Parks

A toxic blue-green algae that is potentially lethal to dogs has been found in three New York City park ponds––the latest place it’s cropped up after leaving a trail of sick and dead pets across North Carolina, Texas and Georgia. According to the New York Cit…

bubmagAugust 27, 2019

Elon Musk

SpaceX ‘Starhopper’ prototype aborts second test flight at last moment – CNET

The business end of the SpaceX Starship hopper prototype. Elon Musk/SpaceX Starhopper didn't have legs on Monday. After two hours of waiting, the rocket prototype's second test was aborted at the last second, just after 6 p.m. Texas time. "Starhopper" is t…

bubmagAugust 27, 2019

Doping in Cycling

Wiggins to train as social worker and ‘wants to help people’

Sir Bradley Wiggins retired from professional cycling in 2016 Sir Bradley Wiggins has enrolled to do a degree in social work, saying he "wants to help people". The 2012 Tour de France winner says he no longer wants to "live off the back of" his cycling care…

bubmagAugust 27, 2019

Neymar

Play Now, Pay Later: How Loans Became Soccer’s Favored Accounting Tool

Increasingly, teams do not simply consider their own financial projections, but those of their rivals, too. Several Premier League teams, for instance, keep track of the budgets of clubs across the continent, to see which ones might be at risk of running afou…

bubmagAugust 27, 2019

eSports

Over A Million People Are Watching World of Warcraft Classic On Twitch

After two years of anticipation, WoW Classic is finally live. Top streamers from every corner of Twitch are streaming it right now, resulting in an audience of over one million concurrent viewersand some seriously congested starter areas. As of this writing,…

bubmagAugust 27, 2019

Trade War

The conservative org that sold out to Trump

Republican Charlie Dent is a former US congressman from Pennsylvania who served as chairman of the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Military Construction, Veterans Affairs and Related Agencies from 2015 until 2018. He is currently a CNN political commenta…

bubmagAugust 27, 2019

Asia stocks, bond yields rise as trade war fears ease

No Spider-Man? No problem. Ms. Marvel is here to save the MCU.

Memo to Italy’s president: your researchers need you

Memo to Italy’s president: your researchers need you

Blue-Green Algae That Can Kill Dogs Has Just Been Found in New York City Parks

SpaceX ‘Starhopper’ prototype aborts second test flight at last moment – CNET

Wiggins to train as social worker and ‘wants to help people’

Play Now, Pay Later: How Loans Became Soccer’s Favored Accounting Tool

Over A Million People Are Watching World of Warcraft Classic On Twitch

The conservative org that sold out to Trump

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