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Orangutan

John Bolton will make us sign away any remaining vestiges of our once proud nation’s integrity

Matthew Normans piece on the chilling reality of John Boltons visit to the UK should certainly be ringing some serious alarm bells in the corridors of power, if not the sensibilities of all decent, right-thinking citizens. It is looking increasingly likely t…

bubmagAugust 14, 2019

Refugees

Venezuelans face new barriers, xenophobia across South America

Lima, Peru - Yonaimer Godoy and his wife peered into his cracked phone, their eyes stained with tears. "What are you doing over there?" Godoy's father asked him through a video call. "Crying." It was their son's second birthday, and they were stuck in a mi…

bubmagAugust 14, 2019

Nuclear Disarmament

Training the next generation of ethical techies

My friend Christian Sandvig, who directs the Center for Ethics, Society, and Computing at the University of Michigan, started an interesting thread on Twitter yesterday. It began: “I’m super suspicious of the “rush to postdocs” in academic #AI ethics/fairnes…

bubmagAugust 14, 2019

Riots

Howard Gold’s No-Nonsense Investing: Here’s what stock markets did after crises similar to Hong Kong’s

As reports of Chinese troops massing near the border with Hong Kong escalate and Chinese state media become increasingly strident in their criticism of protests that have rocked the city for weeks, the Chinese government appears to be threatening a major poli…

bubmagAugust 14, 2019

Jerusalem Controversy

Parashat VA’ETHANAN: What’s at the heart of being proper and good?

This week, we will read the end of Moses’s first speech in the book of Deuteronomy and the beginning of his second speech. This speech, which begins with the description of the Revelation at Mount Sinai and a repetition of the Ten Commandments, continues with…

bubmagAugust 14, 2019

NATO

NATO accuses Russian jet of conducting ‘unsafe’ maneuver during aerial encounter

Washington (CNN)A Russian fighter jet acted in an "unsafe manner" during a Tuesday encounter with NATO aircraft, with the Russian jet almost cutting into the flight path of a NATO plane, forcing the alliance jet to maneuver to avoid a dangerous situation, a N…

bubmagAugust 14, 2019

Greta Thunberg

A London college has banned beef from campus to fight climate change

A London college is banning the sale of beef on campus to address climate change, The Guardian reported Monday. When the new term starts in September, beef products will not be found in campus food outlets at Goldsmiths, University of London. It's one o…

bubmagAugust 14, 2019

Water Pollution

Babylegs the inexpensive, educational way to monitor ocean plastic pollution

Plastic pollution is a frequent topic around the planet, especially when referencing marine life and water pollution. Microplastics cant be seen by the naked eye but are showing up in water tests nearly everywhere. Do you have plastic in your nearby waterway?…

bubmagAugust 14, 2019

Google

LGBTQ+ creators file lawsuit charging YouTube with discrimination

As The Washington Post points out, YouTube's software is kept secret, so creators are often left wondering why their content is suppressed. The plaintiffs believe that YouTube's algorithms and human reviewers single out and remove content with words like "gay…

bubmagAugust 14, 2019

Biological Warfare

U.S. Sanctions Are Killing Cancer Patients in Iran

Last month, the U.S. Department of State released a video addressed to the people of Iran. In the video, Trump administration official Brian Hook claims that it is a myth that sanctions target Irans access to medicine. For more than a decade, my fellow Irania…

bubmagAugust 14, 2019

John Bolton will make us sign away any remaining vestiges of our once proud nation’s integrity

Venezuelans face new barriers, xenophobia across South America

Training the next generation of ethical techies

Howard Gold’s No-Nonsense Investing: Here’s what stock markets did after crises similar to Hong Kong’s

Parashat VA’ETHANAN: What’s at the heart of being proper and good?

NATO accuses Russian jet of conducting ‘unsafe’ maneuver during aerial encounter

A London college has banned beef from campus to fight climate change

Babylegs the inexpensive, educational way to monitor ocean plastic pollution

LGBTQ+ creators file lawsuit charging YouTube with discrimination

U.S. Sanctions Are Killing Cancer Patients in Iran

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