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Julian Assange

Julian Assange, the Espionage Act and implications for free media

bubmagJune 3, 2019

Super Komachi

Don’t forget to use ‘sokonau’ to mark your failings in Japanese

Ik to omotte-ita-n-da kedo, misokonatchatta. (I was going to go, but I missed it.) Situation 1: Ms. Gray is chatting with her friend Ms. Yamada. Yamada: Ano eiga, mita? Watashi, sankai mo michatta-n-da. Gurei: Aa, ik to omotte-ita-n-da kedo, misokonatchatt…

bubmagJune 3, 2019

NSA

Ajit Doval reappointed as National Security Advisor

The Appointments Committee of the Cabinet has approved the reappointment of Ajit Doval as National Security Advisor (NSA). Mr. Doval, who served as the NSA in the previous Narendra Modi-led government, has been accorded a Cabinet Minister's rank in the table…

bubmagJune 3, 2019

Exoskeleton

Lab-grown insect meat may be superior, green source of food: Study – Business Standard

Lab-grown insect meat -- fed on plants, and genetically modified for maximum growth, nutrition and flavour -- could be a superior green alternative for high volume, nutritious food production, a study suggests. "Due to the environmental, public health and an…

bubmagJune 3, 2019

Plastic Pollution

The 100k Initiative

#the100kinitiative have been developed for sustainable beverage brand Found X Oceana, the world’s largest ocean conservation group.100,000 Bottles to commemorate 100,000 marine mammals impacted by plastic. 100% of profits go to Oceana to fight plastic pollu…

bubmagJune 3, 2019

Little Red Riding Hood

Little Red Riding Hood Automata

In this Instructable, I'll show you how to make a simple automata/mechanical toy in the theme of the popular fairy tale Little Red Riding Hood. The mechanism consists of a crank to move the Little Red Riding Hood character, and a drop cam to raise the Wolf, a…

bubmagJune 3, 2019

Global Warming

If Seeing the World Helps Ruin It, Should We Stay Home?

Not flying at all would be better, Mr. Miller said, but the reality is that theres lots of folks that are going to do what theyre going to do. For them, offsets are a lot better than nothing. But some climate experts call offsets a cop-out. Its like paying …

bubmagJune 3, 2019

Plastic Pollution

You can’t save the climate by going vegan. Corporate polluters must be held accountable.

People start pollution. People can stop it. That was the tag line of the famous Crying Indian ad campaign that first aired on Earth Day in 1971. It was, as it turns out, a charade. Not only was Iron Eyes Cody actually an Italian-American actor, the campaign i…

bubmagJune 3, 2019

Old-Age Poverty

The Wild West Meets the Southern Border

Shakespeare is in New Mexico. Tombstone, in Arizona. Both are old mining towns near the U.S.-Mexico border. They came into existence in the eighteen-seventies, during the silver strike, but soon suffered the same fate as most of the other mining towns in the …

bubmagJune 3, 2019

The Queen

Trump labelled ‘far-right’ by London mayor Sadiq Khan after president attacks him upon arrival in UK

Sadiq Khan's office has hit back at "far-right" Donald Trump after the US president launched an extraordinary attack on the London mayor moments ahead of landing in the UK. Minutes before touching down outside the capital aboard Air Force One, Mr Trump brand…

bubmagJune 3, 2019

Julian Assange, the Espionage Act and implications for free media

Don’t forget to use ‘sokonau’ to mark your failings in Japanese

Ajit Doval reappointed as National Security Advisor

Lab-grown insect meat may be superior, green source of food: Study – Business Standard

The 100k Initiative

Little Red Riding Hood Automata

If Seeing the World Helps Ruin It, Should We Stay Home?

You can’t save the climate by going vegan. Corporate polluters must be held accountable.

The Wild West Meets the Southern Border

Trump labelled ‘far-right’ by London mayor Sadiq Khan after president attacks him upon arrival in UK

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