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Refugees

As 1,000 Syrians arrested in Turkey, crackdown fears intensify

Names marked with an asterisk* have been changed to protect identities Sitting in an inner-city Istanbul park, Ahmad* was enjoying music and the company of his friends, until someone spotted police walking over. His heart started racing, though calmly he st…

bubmagJuly 29, 2019

Exoskeleton

Dancers controlled by wearable robots at creepy ‘forced exoskeleton rave’

While dancing comes natural to many people, for others, hitting the dance floor can be a mortifying experience. But clubs in the future could offer people with two left feet a glimmer of hope, if a recent rave is anything to go by. The rave took place at Si…

bubmagJuly 29, 2019

Plastic Pollution

South Africa: Govt, Japan Collaborate to Address Pollution

Trade and Industry Deputy Minister Nomalungelo Gina has welcomed the R25 million Japan-South Africa collaboration project that is aimed at combating plastic pollution. The three-year project which was launched in Pretoria, aims to support the South African p…

bubmagJuly 29, 2019

Climate Change

Research: Climate change helped elephants evolve a large brain

Elephants have long captivated our attention, partly because of their sheer size and majesty. But were also struck by their complex behavior. In some ways, were fascinated because this behavior echoes our most humane feelings. For instance, elephants have rep…

bubmagJuly 29, 2019

Jamal Khashoggi

No One Is Safe: How Saudi Arabia Makes Dissidents Disappear

The day after al-Sadhan disappeared, another student, Loujain al-Hathloul, vanished as well. Enrolled at Abu Dhabis Sorbonne University campus, she got into her car after a brief meeting, never to reappear at school. A prominent activist among Saudi feminists…

bubmagJuly 29, 2019

Global Warming

Today’s climate change is worse than anything Earth has experienced in the past 2,000 years

The global climate is changing faster now than it has at any point in the past 2,000 years. That's the conclusion of a trio of papers published July 24 in the journals Nature and Nature Geoscience that examined the global climate over the past two millennia.…

bubmagJuly 29, 2019

Hrant Dink

From Nazi Germany to Ottoman Turkey, Genocides Begin in the Wilderness, Far From Prying Eyes

Many believe the Jewish Holocaust was planned by the Nazis at a Berlin lakeside villa at Wannsee on 20 January 1942. Most historians still think the Armenian Holocaust was hatched up by the Ottoman Turks in Istanbul in 1915. Of course, weve long known that th…

bubmagJuly 29, 2019

Julian Assange

Julian Assange faces ‘TORTURE’ if extradited to US – UN rapporteur warns

The UN special rapporteur on torture, Nils Melzer, visited Assange at Belmarsh Prison in London with two medical experts in May to access the extent of the ill-treatment the WikiLeaks founder has been subjected to over the years. Following the examination, Me…

bubmagJuly 29, 2019

Christianity

Josh Harris Apostatizes

Big news from the world of Evangelicalism. Last week, the megachurch pastor Josh Harris announced both that he and his wife of 21 years are divorcing, and that he is no longer a Christian. From his Instagram post making public his apostasy: I have lived in r…

bubmagJuly 29, 2019

Scotland

The Big Interview: Paul Winstanley, CEO of Censis – The Scotsman

Chief executive of Censis, Paul Winstanley, is determined Scotland will master the internet of things, piece by piece. The market for Internet of Things (IoT) technology, which allows devices to collect and exchange data with one another, is booming, and its…

bubmagJuly 29, 2019

As 1,000 Syrians arrested in Turkey, crackdown fears intensify

Dancers controlled by wearable robots at creepy ‘forced exoskeleton rave’

South Africa: Govt, Japan Collaborate to Address Pollution

Research: Climate change helped elephants evolve a large brain

No One Is Safe: How Saudi Arabia Makes Dissidents Disappear

Today’s climate change is worse than anything Earth has experienced in the past 2,000 years

From Nazi Germany to Ottoman Turkey, Genocides Begin in the Wilderness, Far From Prying Eyes

Julian Assange faces ‘TORTURE’ if extradited to US – UN rapporteur warns

Josh Harris Apostatizes

The Big Interview: Paul Winstanley, CEO of Censis – The Scotsman

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