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Bees

Animal carcasses and their flies ‘the new bees’ in bid to diversify pollinators

With Australia's multi-billion-dollar agriculture sector reliant on bee pollination, a stinky technique could diversify other insect pollinators to favour crops. key points flies Key points: Flies are well known to be as efficient pollinators as be…

bubmagAugust 9, 2019

eSports

ESPN, ABC Elect to Not Air X Games Apex Legends Due to Recent Mass Shootings

Sean M. Haffey/Getty Images ESPN and ABC have decided to pull the Aug. 11 television broadcast of the XGames Apex Legends EXP Invitational in response to recent mass shootings, according to esports insider Rod Breslau: Rod Breslau@SlasherESPN and ABC has ma…

bubmagAugust 9, 2019

Privacy Concerns

These startups aim to smash Apple and Google’s smartphone duopoly

For years, the devices and services we use have ever more aggressively monitored our activities and mined our data. But as consumers have grown increasingly attuned to privacy concerns, solutions have been appearing to help them evade tracking. Browsers such …

bubmagAugust 9, 2019

Privacy Concerns

These startups aim to smash Apple and Google’s smartphone duopoly

For years, the devices and services we use have ever more aggressively monitored our activities and mined our data. But as consumers have grown increasingly attuned to privacy concerns, solutions have been appearing to help them evade tracking. Browsers such …

bubmagAugust 9, 2019

Korean War

A Second Korean War: Why the World Isn’t Ready (And How Millions Would Die)

Dennis P. Halpin Security, Asia It would be the war from hell. A Second Korean War: Why the World Isn't Ready (And How Millions Would Die) If war erupted as a result of a U.S. surgical strike on North Korean nuclear and missile facilities, and Beijing cho…

bubmagAugust 9, 2019

Chinese Economy

Three long-term trends changing business in China

In this video, Joe Ngai, a senior partner in McKinsey’s Hong Kong office and the managing partner of the Greater China office, discusses how automation will change the face of the Chinese economy—and why this needs to happen, given an aging population. An edi…

bubmagAugust 9, 2019

AR-15

More parents are buying bullet-resistant backpacks to help keep kids protected after shootings

Parents would absolutely shield their child from gunfire if they could. When they can't be around their kids, like when they go to school, some parents are buying bullet-resistant backpacks to help keep their loved ones protected. Manufacturer of bullet-res…

bubmagAugust 9, 2019

Star Wars

‘I’m the first space pirate!’ How tardigrades were secretly smuggled to the moon

For the last four months, Nova Spivack has been busting with a cosmic secret he couldn't tell the world. And even if he did, he knew it would sound implausibly Star Wars-esque. He had put tiny eight-legged creatures in suspended animation in epoxy, "like the…

bubmagAugust 9, 2019

Water Scarcity

Deforestation, Agriculture, and Diet Are Fuelling the Climate Crisis

In the Amazon, or in the parts of the Amazon that people have mowed down and converted into grazing pasture, the average abattoir-bound cow has nearly three acres to himself. Nice for the cow, perhaps, but senseless and dangerous in every other way. Every yea…

bubmagAugust 9, 2019

Jerusalem Controversy

Foxes have been spotted near the Western Wall in Jerusalem

bubmagAugust 9, 2019

Animal carcasses and their flies ‘the new bees’ in bid to diversify pollinators

ESPN, ABC Elect to Not Air X Games Apex Legends Due to Recent Mass Shootings

These startups aim to smash Apple and Google’s smartphone duopoly

These startups aim to smash Apple and Google’s smartphone duopoly

A Second Korean War: Why the World Isn’t Ready (And How Millions Would Die)

Three long-term trends changing business in China

More parents are buying bullet-resistant backpacks to help keep kids protected after shootings

‘I’m the first space pirate!’ How tardigrades were secretly smuggled to the moon

Deforestation, Agriculture, and Diet Are Fuelling the Climate Crisis

Foxes have been spotted near the Western Wall in Jerusalem

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