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Christianity

The Mystical Megachurch Ruling Over Soccer Star Megan Rapinoe’s Hometown

Photo Illustration by Elizabeth Brockway/The Daily Beast/Getty In the hours after Megan Rapinoe and the U.S. womens national soccer teams World Cup victory, the footballer celebrated on Instagram with a photo of her hometown paper, the Record Searchlight. Th…

bubmagJuly 20, 2019

Palestine

Trump’s Peace Plan and the Future of Palestine

By Douglas Gerrard, a freelance journalist who has written for Jacobin, Current Affairs, and Novara Media, among others. His interests include the Jewish diaspora and the future of Israel. Originally published at openDemocracy Last month, Jared Kushner led a…

bubmagJuly 20, 2019

Trickle-Down

Let’s talk about the C-word

Something dramatic was happening in India in the 80s. Old India was breaking down. Most of our experiments as a new democracy were failing but no new models were to be seen. In politics, a new generation was growing up after the Emergency but there was no lea…

bubmagJuly 20, 2019

Super Heroes

Sailor Moon Could Beat Dragon Ball Z’s Son Goku | CBR

Dragon Ball Z has a reputation as the greatest action anime ever, earned through its insane combat, in which god-like heroes and villains fight atop crumbling planets. Because so many characters are so absurdly powerful, it's sometimes mistakenly believed the…

bubmagJuly 20, 2019

Exoskeleton

UAA team developing biodegradable insulation

Commercial fishing companies are expecting to give the so-called bio-boards a real-life test run this summer. The researchers believe the technology can go beyond insulation. They imagine that someday, day-to-day objects like chairs will be biodegradable and…

bubmagJuly 20, 2019

Climate Change

We Went to the Moon. Why Can’t We Solve Climate Change?

Kate Marvel, a climate scientist at NASAs Goddard Institute for Space Studies in New York City, lauded the inspiration that the moon shot provided, but said she had a less sweeping example of a good comparison to the challenge ahead: fixing the ozone hole. It…

bubmagJuly 20, 2019

Scotland

As a parent of an autistic child, it’s essential the government publishes the employment gap figures

In an earlier column I referred to Justin Tomlinson as the do nothing Minister for Disabled People. To be fair, that doesnt make him terribly unusual as regards the occupants of that post, who barely seem to have the time to get their feet under their desks…

bubmagJuly 20, 2019

CCTV

£6K of cash and jewellery stolen from Altham house in morning burglary

Police seek two men after more than £6,000 of cash and jewellery stolen from house. Officers in Blackburn are now appealing for information following the burglary, which took place at around 9.30am on Friday July 19, at a property just off Burnley Road, Alth…

bubmagJuly 20, 2019

Belt and Road

China, India should not allow any individual case to disrupt bilateral ties: Envoy

Prime Minister Narendra Modi with Chinese President Xi Jinping. (File) As Chinese President Xi Jinping is set to visit India later this year for his second informal summit with Prime Minister Narendra Modi, China has said the two neighbours should not allow …

bubmagJuly 20, 2019

The Queen

There’s a bizarre reason why Kate Middleton and Meghan Markle aren’t allowed to take selfies with fans

It's widely known that the royal family have a strict set of etiquette and protocol rules they must follow while attending public engagements. Some of these rules, including no physical contact with fans, have been broken by Kate Middleton and Meghan Markl…

bubmagJuly 20, 2019

The Mystical Megachurch Ruling Over Soccer Star Megan Rapinoe’s Hometown

Trump’s Peace Plan and the Future of Palestine

Let’s talk about the C-word

Sailor Moon Could Beat Dragon Ball Z’s Son Goku | CBR

UAA team developing biodegradable insulation

We Went to the Moon. Why Can’t We Solve Climate Change?

As a parent of an autistic child, it’s essential the government publishes the employment gap figures

£6K of cash and jewellery stolen from Altham house in morning burglary

China, India should not allow any individual case to disrupt bilateral ties: Envoy

There’s a bizarre reason why Kate Middleton and Meghan Markle aren’t allowed to take selfies with fans

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