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Bees

Bumblebees could be wiped out within 30 years, heralding ‘disastrous’ future for our ecosystem

Bumblebees could be teetering on the verge of extinction in Ireland in another 30 years if measures aren't taken to save them from dying off.The latest EU Grassland Butterfly Index, which has just been released from recordings on 6,200 walks across 15 differe…

bubmagJuly 13, 2019

Hong Kong protests augur murky outlook for financial hub

It's still the world's "freest" economy, one of the biggest global financial centers and a scenic haven for tycoons and tourists, but the waves of protests rocking Hong Kong are exposing strains unlikely to dissipate as communist-ruled Beijing's influence gro…

bubmagJuly 13, 2019

Hong Kong protests augur murky outlook for financial hub

HONG KONG (AP) It's still the world's "freest" economy, one of the biggest global financial centers and a scenic haven for tycoons and tourists, but the waves of protests rocking Hong Kong are exposing strains unlikely to dissipate as communist-ruled Beijing'…

bubmagJuly 13, 2019

Slavery Abolition

Tennessee governor declares day honoring Confederate general

Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee signed a proclamation declaring July 13 Nathan Bedford Forrest Day. Forrest was a Confederate general, slave trader and an early leader of the Ku Klux Klan. A Tennessee law dating back to 1971 mandates that the governor must issue pr…

bubmagJuly 13, 2019

US firms’ links with Chinese on genomics a red flag for FBI

The fear that China might use DNA data to devise biological weapons is one of the reasons why security services in the US have concerns about it getting access to its genetic information. While it sounds like something out of a Netflix spy thriller, the Fede…

bubmagJuly 13, 2019

Singapore

Best airports for wellness

Flying is bad for you. This shouldn’t be groundbreaking news to anyone who’s gotten home after a long flight and slept for 12 hours, since the combination of thin air, cramped spaces, and a flying petri dish of germs isn’t exactly a recipe for pure bliss. Thi…

bubmagJuly 13, 2019

Elon Musk

We Might Finally Find Out What Elon Musk’s Neuralink Has Been Up To

Neuralink, the super-secretive neuroscience company co-founded by Elon Musk to develop ultra high bandwidth brain-machine interfaces to connect humans and computers, has evidently decided to show some of its hand. In a rare tweet from the Neuralink account o…

bubmagJuly 13, 2019

Mexico Border Wall

Trump asks Supreme Court to unfreeze border wall money

WASHINGTON (AP) The Trump administration on Friday asked the Supreme Court to lift a freeze on Pentagon money it wants to use to build sections of a border wall with Mexico. Two lower courts have ruled against the administration in a lawsuit over the funding…

bubmagJuly 13, 2019

Donald Trump

Voter: At this point, I’d vote for BLT sandwich over Trump

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bubmagJuly 13, 2019

Old-Age Poverty

Squalid Indigenous housing in the shadow of Australia’s big-money mines

Posted July 13, 2019 08:57:44 Two Indigenous communities thousands of kilometres apart, living in squalor in the shadow of some of the country's richest mines, face an uncertain future. Parnpajinya is situated on the edge of the highway outside Newman in …

bubmagJuly 13, 2019

Bumblebees could be wiped out within 30 years, heralding ‘disastrous’ future for our ecosystem

Tennessee governor declares day honoring Confederate general

Best airports for wellness

We Might Finally Find Out What Elon Musk’s Neuralink Has Been Up To

Trump asks Supreme Court to unfreeze border wall money

Voter: At this point, I’d vote for BLT sandwich over Trump

Squalid Indigenous housing in the shadow of Australia’s big-money mines

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