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Protectionism

Dow futures drop over 300 points as U.S.-China trade talks appear stalled

Wall Street was setting up for a tough start to the week on Monday, with Dow Jones Industrial Average futures down over 300 points as investors waited for countermeasures from China after trade talks with the U.S. appeared to end in a stalemate. How did the …

bubmagMay 13, 2019

Belt and Road

Real trade war: Trump fixates on tariffs while China pursues global digital domination

President Donald Trumps tariffs-by-tweet tendencies and brinkmanship on both sides of the negotiating table have led to a breakdown in talks with China, an escalating trade war, and no doubt many sleepless nights in Beijing and in American boardrooms. But for…

bubmagMay 13, 2019

Water Pollution

Bad news: The fashion industry is actually slowing down on sustainability

By 2030, at its current pace of growth, the fashion industry is expected to be worth $3.3 trillion. It will manufacture 102 million tons of clothes and shoes. For comparison, that is the weight equivalent to a half million blue whales. If nothing changes, the…

bubmagMay 13, 2019

Elon Musk

Elon Musk shows off SpaceX’s Starlink internet satellites before launch

SpaceX CEO has taken to Twitter to show off a couple of pictures of the first 60 Starlink internet satellites headed to low Earth orbit later this week. The satellites are “flatpacked” into the fairing of a Falcon 9 rocket. That rocket is expected to launch o…

bubmagMay 13, 2019

Brexit Negotiator

Brexit deal needs to include second referendum: Starmer

A UK cross-party Brexit deal will need to include a second referendum in order to receive the backing of Labour MPs, leading Labour negotiator Kier Starmer has said. The shadow Brexit secretary warned it was "impossible" to see how an agreement between the C…

bubmagMay 13, 2019

Recycling

Serbian skyscraper designed to recycle, generate energy

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bubmagMay 13, 2019

Putin

Pompeo to visit Brussels Monday to discuss Iran: official

Washington (AFP) - US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo is to visit Brussels on Monday to discuss "pressing matters" including Iran, a State Department official said Sunday. As a result, the top US diplomat is scrapping a stop expected on Monday in Moscow. But…

bubmagMay 13, 2019

Palestine

Reclaiming Lost Palestinian Dreams Through Role-Play

When Laura Alajma was a little girl, the games she played evolved with the world around her. Before the Second Intifada in 2000, she and her friends role-played, pretending to be doctors, mothers and fathers in a childrens game known in the Palestinian territ…

bubmagMay 13, 2019

Bees

Turning off growth to make flowers grow

IMAGE: Proper flower growth depends on the activation and suppression of floral stem cells (left). KNUCKLES and WUSCHEL expression are seen to colocalize in the nucleus to suppress floral stem cell... view more Credit: Toshiro Ito The beautiful colors an…

bubmagMay 13, 2019

SpaceX

Elon Musk shows SpaceX’s first internet satellites ready for launch

Musk further noted that the launch timing was variable, but was "currently tracking" to May 15th (he also raised the possibility of a May 14th takeoff). He warned that "much will likely go wrong" on this first deployment, and that it would take six more simil…

bubmagMay 13, 2019

Dow futures drop over 300 points as U.S.-China trade talks appear stalled

Real trade war: Trump fixates on tariffs while China pursues global digital domination

Bad news: The fashion industry is actually slowing down on sustainability

Elon Musk shows off SpaceX’s Starlink internet satellites before launch

Brexit deal needs to include second referendum: Starmer

Serbian skyscraper designed to recycle, generate energy

Pompeo to visit Brussels Monday to discuss Iran: official

Reclaiming Lost Palestinian Dreams Through Role-Play

Turning off growth to make flowers grow

Elon Musk shows SpaceX’s first internet satellites ready for launch

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