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Protectionism

Bonus Quotation of the Day…

Tweet … is from page 48 of John Stuart Mills 1825 essay The Corn Laws, as this essay is reprinted in Essays on Economics and Society Part I, which is volume IV of The Collected Works of John Stuart Mill (Indianapolis: Liberty Fund, 2006): It will scarcely, …

bubmagAugust 8, 2019

Bees

Commonly used pesticides have turned honey bees’ habitats into a toxic world, research shows

The rise of a common agricultural chemical has turned bees' environment into a minefield of deadly poison, says a new crop of research. According to multiple new studies, a class of pesticides called neonicotinoids may be less benign that previously though…

bubmagAugust 8, 2019

Obamacare

Trump Plays the Role of Victim as He Visits Victims of Dayton, El Paso Mass Shootings

Shortly after he woke up at the White House on Wednesday, President Trump began preparing to travel to two different but similarly broken American cities. He was going there to comfort and visit the grieving communities, victims, and medical staff affected by…

bubmagAugust 8, 2019

Times Square

Times Square crowd panics after sound mistaken for gunfire

New York — The sound of a motorcycle backfiring sparked widespread panic in Times Square late Tuesday after crowds mistook the noise as gunfire. In the wake of recent mass shootings in El Paso and Dayton, chaos quickly ensued as people raced to escape what th…

bubmagAugust 8, 2019

Gundam

SHOW AND TELL LIVE! 8/7/19 #ShowAndTell @adafruit

Stop breadboarding and soldering – start making immediately! Adafruit’s Circuit Playground is jam-packed with LEDs, sensors, buttons, alligator clip pads and more. Build projects with Circuit Playground in a few minutes with the drag-and-drop MakeCode program…

bubmagAugust 8, 2019

Julian Assange

Judge won’t reconsider daily fines against Chelsea Manning for refusal to testify

WASHINGTON Chelsea Manning will not get a hearing to challenge steep daily penalties imposed for her refusal to testify before a grand jury investigating WikiLeaks. In an order issued Monday, Judge Anthony Trenga in suburban Alexandria, Va., federal court sa…

bubmagAugust 8, 2019

Water Scarcity

New Rule: Let’s Not Invade the Amazon

Last Monday, Prof. Stephen Walt published a controversial article on his Foreign Policy blog. The title (which he did not choose and has since been changed) was regrettable: Who Will Invade Brazil to Save the Amazon? Written as part of the fallout from Br…

bubmagAugust 8, 2019

Palestine

Yonatan Mendel: A Palestinian Day Out

It happens twice a year. The beach between Tel Aviv and Jaffa fills with Palestinians from the West Bank. For many children this is the only time they get to visit the seaside, even though their homes in the Occupied Territories may be no more than twenty or …

bubmagAugust 8, 2019

Gundam

NEW GUIDE: PyPortal Wake-Up Light Alarm Clock #PyPortal #Adafruit #AdafruitLearningSystem #CircuitPython #WakeUpWithLight #zucklight @Adafruit

Stop breadboarding and soldering – start making immediately! Adafruit’s Circuit Playground is jam-packed with LEDs, sensors, buttons, alligator clip pads and more. Build projects with Circuit Playground in a few minutes with the drag-and-drop MakeCode program…

bubmagAugust 8, 2019

Biological Warfare

SLOPPY: CDC Shuts Down Military Lab Studying Ebola, Plague, etc. Amid Fears It’s GETTING OUT Through Wastewater

by Daisy Luther We may not have to wait for a traveler from the Democratic Republic of Congo to visit the United States for an Ebola outbreak. It just might be brought to us by our own military along with the plague and other horrifying germs. The laborator…

bubmagAugust 8, 2019

Bonus Quotation of the Day…

Commonly used pesticides have turned honey bees’ habitats into a toxic world, research shows

Trump Plays the Role of Victim as He Visits Victims of Dayton, El Paso Mass Shootings

Times Square crowd panics after sound mistaken for gunfire

SHOW AND TELL LIVE! 8/7/19 #ShowAndTell @adafruit

Judge won’t reconsider daily fines against Chelsea Manning for refusal to testify

New Rule: Let’s Not Invade the Amazon

Yonatan Mendel: A Palestinian Day Out

NEW GUIDE: PyPortal Wake-Up Light Alarm Clock #PyPortal #Adafruit #AdafruitLearningSystem #CircuitPython #WakeUpWithLight #zucklight @Adafruit

SLOPPY: CDC Shuts Down Military Lab Studying Ebola, Plague, etc. Amid Fears It’s GETTING OUT Through Wastewater

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