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Economic Bubble

Employment rate for Japan’s college graduates close to record high at 97.6% amid labor shortage

The employment rate for job seekers who graduated from universities this spring stood at 97.6 percent, government data showed Friday, in the latest sign of a widespread labor shortage amid a graying population. The employment rate for fiscal 2018, which ende…

bubmagMay 17, 2019

Biological Warfare

Filmmaker and writer Pedro Neves Marques merges biopolitics with sexual politics

New-York based artist, writer and filmmaker Pedro Neves Marques, in his first UK solo exhibition at Gasworks, is interrogating the biopolitics at play in a nation battling the threat of mosquito-transmitted diseases. Speaking of his politically engaged practi…

bubmagMay 17, 2019

New York City

New York Today: De Blasio Wants to Be President. Can His Record Sway ‘Everyday People’?

Mayor de Blasio is in Iowa campaigning for president. The mayor announced yesterday that he would seek the Democratic nomination in a three-minute video titled Working People First, in which he emphasized his accomplishments in New York City, calling his ho…

bubmagMay 17, 2019

Refugees

Big tech firms are racing to track climate refugees

To be an undocumented refugee, these days, is to exist in many places and to not exist at all. It is to have your movements, words, and actions tracked, archived, and multiplied. It is to live between fences, tents, and databasesone new entry per doctors visi…

bubmagMay 17, 2019

SpaceX

Space X’s ambitious Starlink satellite launch was delayed for a 2nd time to ‘triple-check everything’ and update software

SpaceX delayed the launch of 60 satellites as part of its ambitious Starlink internet project for the second time in a week, saying that the launch will now take place in "about a week" to allow time for a software update and to "triple-check everything." …

bubmagMay 17, 2019

Geely

Lotus plots expansion to include more sports cars and SUV

He is also refreshingly open about how he wants the company to be perceived, and which rival he most aspires to beat: Today, Porsche is our target and our benchmark. As with the German brand, Feng admits that Lotus will need to diversify beyond sports cars,…

bubmagMay 17, 2019

Feudalism

Game of Thrones and the Truth About Class (Spoiler Warning)

In the penultimate episode of Game of Thrones the city of Kings Landing is sacked and razed by Daenarys Targaryen and her armies. Viewers were as stunned as Jon Snow as they watched the storys supposed heroine rain destruction upon the Lannister soldiers and …

bubmagMay 17, 2019

Brexit

U.K. Prime Minister Theresa May Says She’ll Issue a Timetable for Her Departure Next Month

(LONDON) — British Prime Minister Theresa May fended off pressure Thursday from Conservative Party lawmakers demanding that she set a date for her resignation, buying herself a few more weeks to try to unblock Britain’s Brexit impasse. But she agreed to give…

bubmagMay 17, 2019

Singapore

Biz school lets light ‘shine on’ local charity that ‘sparks’ hope in education

BULACAN, Philippines For long-time education and innovation advocate Katy Montgomery, companies could go beyond reaping profits and bring about positive social transformation by turning ventures into forces of change. This mindset was the core of Singapore-b…

bubmagMay 17, 2019

Greta Thunberg

‘Some days I wake up inconsolable’: Tessa Jowell’s daughter on the first anniversary of her mum’s death

My daughter has been an absolute blazing ray of sunshine for all of us. My mum just loved her with an absolutely unreserved joy and passion. Yet its funny how your framework can change, she says, quietening again. If I really go there and think about what Ive…

bubmagMay 17, 2019

Employment rate for Japan’s college graduates close to record high at 97.6% amid labor shortage

Filmmaker and writer Pedro Neves Marques merges biopolitics with sexual politics

New York Today: De Blasio Wants to Be President. Can His Record Sway ‘Everyday People’?

Big tech firms are racing to track climate refugees

Space X’s ambitious Starlink satellite launch was delayed for a 2nd time to ‘triple-check everything’ and update software

Lotus plots expansion to include more sports cars and SUV

Game of Thrones and the Truth About Class (Spoiler Warning)

U.K. Prime Minister Theresa May Says She’ll Issue a Timetable for Her Departure Next Month

Biz school lets light ‘shine on’ local charity that ‘sparks’ hope in education

‘Some days I wake up inconsolable’: Tessa Jowell’s daughter on the first anniversary of her mum’s death

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