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Global Warming

Climate Change Could Be Behind An ‘Extraordinary’ Ancient Plant Bloom in the UK

Cycads are palm-tree like plants that dominated the Earths landscape some 280 million years ago when the continents were smashed up into Pangea. Back then, the planet was going through global warming due to increased carbon dioxide levels from natural process…

bubmagAugust 22, 2019

Self-driving Vehicles

Unable to buy cars, Venezuelans labor to make sure robotic ones don’t crash

Next time you hear about the wonderful future of self-driving cars, picture this: Venezuelans, living in crisis conditions after their economy collapsed, sitting at laptops and outlining pictures of trees and bikes so that the robotic vehicles dont crash. Th…

bubmagAugust 22, 2019

Riots

In encrypted chats, Hong Kong protesters find support from mainland China – The Globe and Mail

Protesters face riot police during a standoff at Yuen Long MTR station, in Hong Kong, on Aug. 21, 2019. TYRONE SIU/Reuters Support for protesters in Hong Kong has come from an unexpected place: internet users in mainland China who are turning to encrypted …

bubmagAugust 22, 2019

Donald Trump

Keilar lists Trump’s ‘alarming’ behavior of past 24 hours

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bubmagAugust 22, 2019

Obamacare

Health insurers plan to expand Obamacare offerings despite legal battle – Fox Business

Trial attorney Misty Marris on the latest legal challenge facing ObamaCare. Insurers are pushing ahead with plans to expand their Affordable Care Act offerings next year, even as federal judges debate the constitutionality of the health care law, throwing t…

bubmagAugust 22, 2019

Jerusalem Controversy

Time to ‘get over Darwin’

Yale University computer science professor David Gelernter publicly turned his back on Darwins theory of evolution in a recent op-ed for the Claremont Review of Books. Darwin has failed, he declared. Gelernter did not speak much of his Jewish religious ideol…

bubmagAugust 22, 2019

Moravec‘s Paradox

Today on GeekWire: Bezos and the Pentagon; Coffee startups brew new ideas; UW unveils tiny robot race cars

Highlights from todays top stories. Subscribe here to receive this rundown daily. Amazons bid to build the Pentagons war cloud has been mired in accusations of favoritism since the beginning. But a newly published ProPublica investigation reveals how close A…

bubmagAugust 22, 2019

Greta Thunberg

Hear the 1975 Demand ‘Stop F-cking With the Kids’ on New Song ‘People’

The 1975 get heavier and faster with their sound for new song “People,” the lead single off their forthcoming LP Notes on a Conditional Form. “People” is a sonic departure for the 1975 and maybe their most punk song ever. Singer Matty Healy sounds as if he i…

bubmagAugust 22, 2019

SpaceX

Former champ GGG would rather talk about Elon Musk and space than Canelo Alvarez

Middleweight boxer Gennady "GGG" Golovkin says doesn't think much about Saul "Canelo" Alvarez. In fact, he says he'd rather talk about space than a possible third fight with the boxer. Golovkin and Sergiy Derevyanchenko agreed to terms on Tuesday to vie fo…

bubmagAugust 22, 2019

Xi Jinping

U.S. secretary of state takes aim at China over diplomatic feud with Canada – National Post

Cda-US-Pompeo, 4th Writethru Update:RECASTS with details from news conference HL:U.S. secretary of state takes aim at China over diplomatic feud with Canada THE CANADIAN PRESS OTTAWA — U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo is taking direct aim at how China…

bubmagAugust 22, 2019

Climate Change Could Be Behind An ‘Extraordinary’ Ancient Plant Bloom in the UK

Unable to buy cars, Venezuelans labor to make sure robotic ones don’t crash

In encrypted chats, Hong Kong protesters find support from mainland China – The Globe and Mail

Keilar lists Trump’s ‘alarming’ behavior of past 24 hours

Health insurers plan to expand Obamacare offerings despite legal battle – Fox Business

Time to ‘get over Darwin’

Today on GeekWire: Bezos and the Pentagon; Coffee startups brew new ideas; UW unveils tiny robot race cars

Hear the 1975 Demand ‘Stop F-cking With the Kids’ on New Song ‘People’

Former champ GGG would rather talk about Elon Musk and space than Canelo Alvarez

U.S. secretary of state takes aim at China over diplomatic feud with Canada – National Post

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