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Nuclear Disarmament

Alexander Gillespie: Nuclear weapons control at point of collapse

COMMENT The architecture which has reduced the threat of nuclear conflict for the past 50 years is currently being vandalised and dismantled. The framework which was constructed between the early 1960s and the late 1990s was built around a number of princ…

bubmagAugust 8, 2019

Exoskeleton

GN Chapel / Miguel Pinto Guimarães Arquitetos Associados

© Leonardo Finotti + 26 © Leonardo Finotti Text description provided by the architects. GN Chapel follows an important tradition on Brazilian architecture that is the construction of religious buildings on private residences. During the colonial period (es…

bubmagAugust 8, 2019

Economic Bubble

The Mitsubishi Minica Toppo Is A 9,000 RPM Van From Japan’s Over-Engineering Peak

In 1991, Bugatti debuted the EB110, meant to be as high-tech a car as possible. It had a daring five valves per cylinder. In 1994, Ferrari followed suit with the 40-valve V8 355, then its own 60-valve V12 F50 a year later. But they were both beaten to the pun…

bubmagAugust 8, 2019

The Queen

Jeremy Corbyn has called Boris Johnson’s bluff. Let’s see if the PM would defy the Commons now

As a weak and divided opposition party trying to gain some traction on the main political story of the moment, and at a time when parliament is on holiday, the usually clueless Labour leadership is employing unexpectedly smart tactics on Brexit. Jeremy Corbyn…

bubmagAugust 8, 2019

Biological Warfare

What the epidemic of TV and movies about zombies and doomsday viruses is really trying to tell us

Be afraid. Be very afraid. Of what may come. Of each other. If movies and television in the last few years are any indication, we have so much more to fear in this world than losing a job or a relationship or our health. Our entertainment is telling us that …

bubmagAugust 8, 2019

Global Warming

To Halt Warming and Ensure Food Supplies, Land-Use Practices Must Change

What’s good for the planet’s climate is also good for its food systems. Halting global warming and feeding the world’s rapidly growing population both require major overhauls to the way that humans manage the land they live on, according to a much-anticipate…

bubmagAugust 8, 2019

Venezuela

U.S. sanctions on Venezuela may worsen crisis: U.N. rights chief

GENEVA (Reuters) - The United Nations human rights chief said on Thursday that the latest unilateral U.S. sanctions on Venezuela were “extremely broad” and she feared they would significantly exacerbate the crisis in terms of people’s access to food and healt…

bubmagAugust 8, 2019

Venezuela

U.S. sanctions on Venezuela may worsen crisis: U.N. rights chief

GENEVA (Reuters) - The United Nations human rights chief said on Thursday that the latest unilateral U.S. sanctions on Venezuela were "extremely broad" and she feared they would significantly exacerbate the crisis in terms of people's access to food and healt…

bubmagAugust 8, 2019

Julian Assange

Judge: Nope. Chelsea Manning needs to pay those fines

As you may recall, back in March we learned that Chelsea Manning was back in jail on contempt charges for failing to answer questions before a grand jury looking into the affairs of Julian Assange, among other things. At the time, the judge decided to add a b…

bubmagAugust 8, 2019

Biological Warfare

Bio-warfare experts question why Canada was sending lethal viruses to China

In a table-top pandemic exercise at Johns Hopkins University last year, a pathogen based on the emerging Nipah virus was released by fictional extremists, killing 150 million people. A less apocalyptic scenario mapped out by a blue-ribbon U.S. panel envision…

bubmagAugust 8, 2019

Alexander Gillespie: Nuclear weapons control at point of collapse

GN Chapel / Miguel Pinto Guimarães Arquitetos Associados

The Mitsubishi Minica Toppo Is A 9,000 RPM Van From Japan’s Over-Engineering Peak

Jeremy Corbyn has called Boris Johnson’s bluff. Let’s see if the PM would defy the Commons now

What the epidemic of TV and movies about zombies and doomsday viruses is really trying to tell us

To Halt Warming and Ensure Food Supplies, Land-Use Practices Must Change

U.S. sanctions on Venezuela may worsen crisis: U.N. rights chief

U.S. sanctions on Venezuela may worsen crisis: U.N. rights chief

Judge: Nope. Chelsea Manning needs to pay those fines

Bio-warfare experts question why Canada was sending lethal viruses to China

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