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Yellow Vests

‘Worrying Time for European Project’ – Prof on Prospects of EU Parl’t Elections

For the first time, right-wing leader Marine Le Pen's party Rassemblement National (RN), formerly the National Front, overtook French President Emmanuel Macron's party La République En Marche (REM) according to a recent Ipsos poll ahead of the EU election thi…

bubmagMay 14, 2019

Hrant Dink

In robotics classes, Armenian teens dream of high-tech future

A view of the Tumo Center for Creative Technologies in Yerevan on April 30, 2019. AFP YEREVAN — In a sleek classroom in Yerevan, the capital of Armenia, one of the poorest post-Soviet republics, 14-year-old Nazeli Ter-Petrosyan peers at the screen of her App…

bubmagMay 14, 2019

Global Warming

This cookbook from the future teaches you to make bug burgers and algae chips

Luckily, Ikea’s innovation lab Space10 is publishing a cookbook called Future Food Today to help. Packed with about two dozen recipes that rely on what the lab calls “future foods”–like microalgae and mealworms–the cookbook is desig…

bubmagMay 14, 2019

Plastic Pollution

It’s not just fish, plastic pollution harms the bacteria that help us breathe

Ten per cent of the oxygen we breathe comes from just one kind of bacteria in the ocean. Now laboratory tests have shown that these bacteria are susceptible to plastic pollution, according to a study published in Communications Biology. "We found that exposu…

bubmagMay 14, 2019

Ukrainian Revolution

‘Ukraine is on the right path,’ chief rabbi says

Walking on the scorched and scarred sidewalks of this capital city’s main square five years ago, Eduard Dolinsky felt hopeful and proud. A member of Kiev’s large Jewish population and a longtime activist for its communal causes, Dolinsky had hoped that the b…

bubmagMay 14, 2019

Holocaust

Rashida Tlaib stands by remarks on Israel and Holocaust

bubmagMay 14, 2019

Venezuela

Mike Pompeo, Zion Williamson and Cannes: 5 things to know Tuesday

Mike Pompeo to meet with Vladimir Putin in Sochi Secretary of State Mike Pompeo is set to meet Russian President Vladimir on Tuesday at the Kremlin's summer home in Sochi. The meeting coincides with rising tensions in hot button areas around the globe that R…

bubmagMay 14, 2019

Hiroshima

The Ghostly Legacy of Hiroshima Has Finally Been Discovered in Physical Form

What happened to Hiroshima? Everybody thinks they know the answer, and yet, strangely, nobody does. History tells us Hiroshima was destroyed by the first atomic bomb deployed in war on 6 August 1945. But what happened to the actual city when it was consumed …

bubmagMay 14, 2019

Animal Protection

Do chickens actually like being free-range?

In fact, they may be most comfortable inside. Credit:Matt Golding "Chickens are related to forest-dwelling birds. They don't like open spaces," says Dr Charles Milne, who on Friday retired as Victorias chief vet. "Free-range can deliver huge welfare proble…

bubmagMay 14, 2019

Monsanto

Monsanto ordered to pay £1.5 billion to couple who got cancer from Roundup weedkiller

A couple who blame the weedkillerRoundup Ready for causing their cancer have been awarded £1.5bn. A jury in California on Monday ordered Monsanto to pay damages to Alva and Alberta Pilliod, both in their 70s, in the third and largest courtroom loss for the a…

bubmagMay 14, 2019

‘Worrying Time for European Project’ – Prof on Prospects of EU Parl’t Elections

In robotics classes, Armenian teens dream of high-tech future

This cookbook from the future teaches you to make bug burgers and algae chips

It’s not just fish, plastic pollution harms the bacteria that help us breathe

‘Ukraine is on the right path,’ chief rabbi says

Rashida Tlaib stands by remarks on Israel and Holocaust

Mike Pompeo, Zion Williamson and Cannes: 5 things to know Tuesday

The Ghostly Legacy of Hiroshima Has Finally Been Discovered in Physical Form

Do chickens actually like being free-range?

Monsanto ordered to pay £1.5 billion to couple who got cancer from Roundup weedkiller

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