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The Queen

How Queen Victoria made her mark in Canada — without ever visiting

Hello, royal watchers. This is your biweekly dose of royal news and analysis. Reading this online? Sign up here to get this delivered to your inbox. There was a certain poignancy in pictures from Buckingham Palace the other day, as they captured the current …

bubmagJuly 28, 2019

Plastic Pollution

Are Bioplastics Better for the Environment? It’s Complicated

Polylactic acid is derived from plant material like corn sugar, potato or sugarcane, and is used to replace conventional plastic in a number of consumer goods. Visual: United States Department of Agriculture VIEWPOINTS: Partner content,…

bubmagJuly 28, 2019

The Queen

The Queen looks chic in turquoise as she makes her way to church service in Scotland

The Queen looked relaxed as she headed to church on the first Sunday of her summer break. The Monarch, 93, is in Balmoral, Scotland, and braved the chilly breeze in order to attend a church service in nearby Crathie Kirk this Sunday. Wearing a turquoise b…

bubmagJuly 28, 2019

Nukes

Factbox: The atomic restrictions imposed by the Iran nuclear deal

(Reuters) - Parties to Iran’s 2015 nuclear deal are meeting in Vienna on Sunday for emergency talks called in response to an escalation in tensions between Iran and the West that included confrontations at sea and Tehran’s breaches of the accord. Below are …

bubmagJuly 28, 2019

Unwelcome Refugees

Dozens of migrants still stuck on vessel in Italy port

Rome (AFP) - An Italian coastguard vessel stranded in the Mediterranean with more than 130 migrants aboard has been allowed to dock in the eastern Sicilian port of Augusta but Rome on Sunday refused to let them disembark until a deal is struck with the EU. "…

bubmagJuly 28, 2019

Brexit

Johnson’s government to spend up to £10 million on TV ads and leaflets preparing Brits for a no-deal Brexit

Prime Minister Boris Johnson is reportedly preparing to spend up to £10 million on television advertisements and leaflets informing the British public on what leaving the European Union without a deal in October would entail. Johnson is planning to send le…

bubmagJuly 28, 2019

Obamacare

The 2020 Democrat who may actually know how to fix health care

Jay Inslee is running for president as the climate change candidate. But the two-term Washington state governor can credibly claim to have accomplished more than most of his peers on health care, a signature issue in the 2020 campaign. He created both the n…

bubmagJuly 28, 2019

Self-driving Vehicles

We might never achieve general AIs — but it’s important that we try

There are many parallels between self-driving car and artificial intelligence. They are goals that, the closer we get to them, the more difficult they seem. In 1956, scientists John McCarthy and Marvin Minsky proposed that a 2-month, 10-man study of artificia…

bubmagJuly 28, 2019

Paris

The Expat Crew Campaigning for Bernie Sanders in France

Anya van Wagtendonk is a reporter and multimedia producer based in Brooklyn. PARISThe air conditioning was on at full blast inside Joe Allen, the self-proclaimed oldest American bar in Paris, where about 30 people were gathered to watch a video playback of t…

bubmagJuly 28, 2019

Paris

How the Paris Catacombs Solved a Cemetery Crisis

Recently the Guardian reported on a British health experts proposal to bury bodies alongside roads. The idea of lining thoroughfares with corpses may seem macabre, but it could promote the planting of new woodlands through green burial and help address the na…

bubmagJuly 28, 2019

How Queen Victoria made her mark in Canada — without ever visiting

Are Bioplastics Better for the Environment? It’s Complicated

The Queen looks chic in turquoise as she makes her way to church service in Scotland

Factbox: The atomic restrictions imposed by the Iran nuclear deal

Dozens of migrants still stuck on vessel in Italy port

Johnson’s government to spend up to £10 million on TV ads and leaflets preparing Brits for a no-deal Brexit

The 2020 Democrat who may actually know how to fix health care

We might never achieve general AIs — but it’s important that we try

The Expat Crew Campaigning for Bernie Sanders in France

How the Paris Catacombs Solved a Cemetery Crisis

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