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Panda

Ueno zoo’s crowd-pulling giant panda cub Xiang Xiang to be returned to China by end of 2020

Giant panda cub Xiang Xiang, which has been drawing huge crowds at a Tokyo zoo, will return to China by the end of 2020, Tokyo Gov. Yuriko Koike said Friday. The female panda was originally scheduled to be returned to China when she turns 2 next month under …

bubmagMay 31, 2019

Skateboard

The Case for Raising a Dabbler

David Epstein’s new book, Range, isn’t about parenting per se, but Epstein thought a lot about parenting while he was writing it. And not just because his first child was born a few months before its publication. Range, a book about the value of being a gener…

bubmagMay 31, 2019

Black Hole

Experiment proves Stephen Hawking black hole prediction was right

Physicists have been working on an experiment in the laboratory that has to do with black holes. The experiment has confirmed that a prediction the late Stephen Haking made about black holes was correct. The black hole that the team created in their lab isn’t…

bubmagMay 31, 2019

Putin

Trump attacks Mueller, denies that Russia helped him win

WASHINGTON (AP) President Donald Trump has angrily assailed special counsel Robert Mueller's motives, after Mueller bluntly rebuffed Trump's repeated claims that the Russia investigation had cleared him of obstructing justice. The president also offered mixe…

bubmagMay 31, 2019

Uber’s food delivery business is the company’s biggest weapon against rivals like Lyft: Wedbush

Uber set pulses raising on its calamitous first day of trading on the New York Stock Exchange earlier this month, but there were few surprises in its debut quarterly earnings. The earnings (revenue of $2.76 billion; a loss of $1 billion) were slightly abov…

bubmagMay 31, 2019

Electric Car

German government expands electric car incentive program

The German government is extending a system of incentives to buy electric cars by 18 months until the end of 2020. The program launched three years ago was supposed to expire at the end of June, but demand for electric cars has remained disappointing. It is …

bubmagMay 31, 2019

Julian Assange

Pamela Anderson Defends Julian Assange in Op-Ed: ‘Don’t Blame Julian for Your Own Defeat’

Pamela Anderson is once again defending Julian Assange. In an op-ed for the Daily Beast published Thursday, Anderson, 51, writes that Assange has been made a “scapegoat” for President Donald Trump‘s election win and that the WikiLeaks founder is being unfair…

bubmagMay 31, 2019

Electric Scooter

How Top-Selling Electric Scooter Maker Gogoro Prospers While Unprofitable

Share to facebook Share to twitter Share to linkedin Horace Luke, cofounder and CEO of Gogoro. (Billy H.C. Kwok/Bloomberg) © 2018 Bloomberg Finance LP Gogoro was launched in 2011 as an electric scooter brand that quickly took a market lead in en…

bubmagMay 31, 2019

Mexico Border Wall

Vigilantes Helped Steve Bannon’s Group With Private Border Wall Near El Paso

We Build the Walls search for land got help from the United Constitutional Patriots, or UCP, the armed vigilantes who made the news in April after videos revealed that they were capturing and terrorizing migrants near El Paso. Subsequently, the FBI announced …

bubmagMay 31, 2019

Climate Change

Trump’s Latest Attack on Federal Climate Science May Backfire

This story originally appeared on HuffPost and is part of the Climate Desk collaboration. As planet-warming gases reach levels not previously seen in human history, the Trump administrations bid to restrict how federal scientists conduct the next National Cl…

bubmagMay 31, 2019

Ueno zoo’s crowd-pulling giant panda cub Xiang Xiang to be returned to China by end of 2020

The Case for Raising a Dabbler

Experiment proves Stephen Hawking black hole prediction was right

Trump attacks Mueller, denies that Russia helped him win

German government expands electric car incentive program

Pamela Anderson Defends Julian Assange in Op-Ed: ‘Don’t Blame Julian for Your Own Defeat’

How Top-Selling Electric Scooter Maker Gogoro Prospers While Unprofitable

Vigilantes Helped Steve Bannon’s Group With Private Border Wall Near El Paso

Trump’s Latest Attack on Federal Climate Science May Backfire

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