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Little Italy

Behind A Garden, A Rare Carriage House in NYC’s Nolita

Share to facebook Share to twitter Share to linkedin The pre-renovation interior of a rare Nolita carriage house. Compass A unique carriage house tucked away behind a garden in Manhattan's Nolita neighborhood, an area known more for its tenement building…

bubmagApril 30, 2019

Holocaust

Religious Freedom Report Offers Grim Review Of Attacks On Faith Groups

Outside China's embassy in Jakarta, Indonesian protesters in 2018 demand an end to China's mass detention of Uighur Muslims. On Monday, the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom released its 20th annual report. Achmad Ibrahim/AP The U.…

bubmagApril 30, 2019

Barack Obama

appreciation: Richard Lugar Was Not Afraid to Lead

Mr. Lugar called the I.N.F. withdrawal a gravely misguided decision that will not make us safer, it will rob us of leverage essential to our own security and power. And after having opposed many in his own party to ensure passage of New Start, he urged Mr. Tr…

bubmagApril 30, 2019

BUK-Missile

The Evidence In The MH17 Case Doesn’t Point To Russia Or Ukraine

The MH17 case shocked the world as it happened and caused an escalation of the war in Ukraine. Although many accusations have been leveled over responsibility for the tragedy, the panel investigating the incident continues to search for the identities o…

bubmagApril 29, 2019

Slavery Abolition

Guards repel assault on Libya’s biggest oilfield as Tripoli battle rages

An armed group attacked Libya's largest oilfield on Monday, but was repelled after clashes with its protection force, while fighting escalated in eastern commander Khalifa Haftar's effort to capture the capital Tripoli. The state oil company National Oil Cor…

bubmagApril 29, 2019

Donald Trump

US Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein quits

US Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein has handed in his resignation to President Donald Trump. The two men had a rocky relationship. In 2017, Mr Rosenstein appointed Robert Mueller to head an investigation into allegations of Russian interference in the …

bubmagApril 29, 2019

Super Heroes

That post-credits clanging was just one of Endgame’s many Easter eggs

Avengers: Endgame did exactly what it was meant to, closing the Infinity Saga and bringing our favorite heroes together one last time while making a stupid amount of money. And, at a whopping three hours, it made ample…

bubmagApril 29, 2019

Moravec‘s Paradox

Robotics startup Anki is shutting down

Anki, the San Francisco-based robotics and artificial intelligence startup, has announced that it will be closing its doors. Despite being featured on-stage at Apple events and raising more than $200 million in funding, the company says it has run out of mone…

bubmagApril 29, 2019

Little Red Riding Hood

Margaret Atwood’s MasterClass Review: A Course on Creative Writing

I wrote about MasterClass a couple of months ago in my review of James Pattersons course on Writing and this month, Ive been enjoying Margaret Atwoods course on Creative Writing. In case you dont want to head back to that post, Ill quickly recap the basics o…

bubmagApril 29, 2019

Self-driving Vehicles

13 vintage photos of the auto industry during America’s first auto boom

Before there were Elon Musk and Tesla, there were Henry Ford and the Model T. And between Tesla's state-of-the-art cars and the rise of self-driving vehicles, it's difficult to remember how far we've come since the first-ever automobiles built in Europe in th…

bubmagApril 29, 2019

Behind A Garden, A Rare Carriage House in NYC’s Nolita

Religious Freedom Report Offers Grim Review Of Attacks On Faith Groups

appreciation: Richard Lugar Was Not Afraid to Lead

The Evidence In The MH17 Case Doesn’t Point To Russia Or Ukraine

Guards repel assault on Libya’s biggest oilfield as Tripoli battle rages

US Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein quits

That post-credits clanging was just one of Endgame’s many Easter eggs

Robotics startup Anki is shutting down

Margaret Atwood’s MasterClass Review: A Course on Creative Writing

13 vintage photos of the auto industry during America’s first auto boom

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