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Water Scarcity

Mapping the world’s free-flowing rivers

1.Ripl, W. Water: the bloodstream of the biosphere. Philos. Trans. R. Soc. B. 358, 19211934 (2003). 2.Lehner, B. et al. High-resolution mapping of the worlds reservoirs and dams for sustainable river-flow management. Front. Ecol. Environ. 9, 494502 (2011). …

bubmagMay 8, 2019

Water Scarcity

Mapping the world’s free-flowing rivers

1.Ripl, W. Water: the bloodstream of the biosphere. Philos. Trans. R. Soc. B. 358, 19211934 (2003). 2.Lehner, B. et al. High-resolution mapping of the worlds reservoirs and dams for sustainable river-flow management. Front. Ecol. Environ. 9, 494502 (2011). …

bubmagMay 8, 2019

Water Pollution

Fix the broken food system in three steps

A cattle rancher in Brazil, where pressures to produce more meat collide with the need to reduce deforestation and greenhouse-gas emissions.Credit: Marco Antonio Rezende/Brazil Photos/LightRocket/Getty Land use and food production are not meeting peoples nee…

bubmagMay 8, 2019

Belt and Road

South America is embracing Beijing’s science silk road

Even before Chinese President Xi Jinping unveiled the monumental trade plan now known as the Belt and Road Initiative to the rest of the world, he was already selling elements of it to astronomers. Mónica Rubio, president of the Chilean Society of Astronomy …

bubmagMay 8, 2019

Google

Google rethinks navigation with launch of ‘Portals’ on Chrome Canary

Google announced today it has launched a new page transition experience for the Chrome web browser called “Portals.” The technology is something the company has been developing for some time, and is designed to offer an alternative to using IFrames. In fact, …

bubmagMay 8, 2019

Exoskeleton

The Tammock flips the hammock tent around into a freestanding ground tent

Hammock tents have become somewhat of a staple in the outdoor world, wrapping a hammock or suspended tent floor up with waterproof-breathable fabric and mosquito mesh. The all-new Tammock from Lit Outdoors puts a spin on the genre, flipping the hammock out of…

bubmagMay 8, 2019

Google

Facebook talked privacy, Google actually built it

Mark Zuckerberg: “The future is private”. Sundar Pichai: ~The present is private~. While both CEO’s made protecting user data a central theme of their conference keynotes this month, Facebook’s product updates were mostly vague vaporware while Google’s were e…

bubmagMay 8, 2019

Google

Google’s Latest Message: We’re Just Here to Help

Googles mission for the past 21 years has been to organize the worlds information. On stage at the companys annual developer conference Tuesday, CEO Sundar Pichai had a more low-key message: We just wanna help. As corporate messaging goes, it was a smart cho…

bubmagMay 8, 2019

Jerusalem Controversy

Israeli city to name square after Donald Trump

X Dear Reader, As you can imagine, more people are reading The Jerusalem Post than ever before. Nevertheless, traditional business models are no longer sustainable and high-quality publications, like ours, are being forced to look for new ways to keep…

bubmagMay 8, 2019

Drones

UK drones map Chernobyl’s ‘Red Forest’

Media captionProf Tom Scott: "We want to understand the envelope of safety in the area" Chernobyl's "Red Forest" - one of the most radioactive locations on Earth - has just been surveyed by UK scientists using a suite of drones. The robotic aircraft flew n…

bubmagMay 8, 2019

Mapping the world’s free-flowing rivers

Mapping the world’s free-flowing rivers

Fix the broken food system in three steps

South America is embracing Beijing’s science silk road

Google rethinks navigation with launch of ‘Portals’ on Chrome Canary

The Tammock flips the hammock tent around into a freestanding ground tent

Facebook talked privacy, Google actually built it

Google’s Latest Message: We’re Just Here to Help

Israeli city to name square after Donald Trump

UK drones map Chernobyl’s ‘Red Forest’

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