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Black Hole

Viewpoint: Supermassive Black Hole May Constrain Superlight Dark Matter

Figure 1: Image of the supermassive black hole M87*, taken by the Event Horizon Telescope. Recently, astronomers obtained the first image of the accretion disk around the horizon of a supermassive black hole using a world-wide network of radio observatories …

bubmagJuly 10, 2019

Air Pollution

You Can Now Uber a Helicopter, but You Probably Shouldn’t

Photo courtesy Uber. Social image photos courtesy UberWhen ride-share giant Uber teased plans last month to launch UberCopter, a roughly $200, eight-minute helicopter service from Manhattan to JFK International Airport in New York City, skeptics came out of t…

bubmagJuly 10, 2019

Alibaba

How Richest People Changed Their Lives Since Earning Their First Billion (11 pics)

In 2017, Jeff Bezos, the owner and founder of the online store Amazon became the richest person in the world. The project was started in 1995 in a garage and just 4 years later, the value of the company was estimated at $6 billion. Aside from the online store…

bubmagJuly 10, 2019

Korean War

Emmy-winning actor Rip Torn has died at the age of 88 – CityNews Toronto

LOS ANGELES — Rip Torn, the free-spirited Texan who overcame his quirky name to become a distinguished actor in theatre, television and movies and win an Emmy in his 60s for his comedy turn on TV’s “The Larry Sanders Show,” has died. He was 88. Torn died Tue…

bubmagJuly 10, 2019

Old-Age Poverty

New bid to recover Indigenous stolen wages in WA with earlier payment labelled ‘a pittance’

Posted July 10, 2019 19:01:10 A class action is being prepared to recover stolen or missing wages earned by Indigenous people in Western Australia. Key points: Wages were withheld from Indigenous workers in Western Australia for decadesL…

bubmagJuly 10, 2019

Self-driving Vehicles

For years, automakers wildly overpromised on self-driving cars and electric vehicles—what now?

Just before Uber’s IPO in May, court documents were unsealed relating to a lawsuit filed against the ride-sharing company in 2017 by Waymo, Google’s self-driving car unit. In these documents and in testimony during the case, which was settled in 2018, a rare …

bubmagJuly 10, 2019

Computers in School

The Messy Reality of Personalized Learning

A half hour west of downtown Providence, Rhode Island, past potholed highways lined with maple, ash, and pine trees, is the town of Foster, population four thousand and seven hundred. Its residents live on small farms and in aging, widely spaced homes; the cl…

bubmagJuly 10, 2019

Biological Warfare

Joe Biden: Protector of the Deep State

Drawing by Nathaniel St. Clair Kamala Harris surged in the polls after attacking frontrunner Joe Biden during the first Democratic Party debate for opposing federal busing programs in the 1970s that were designed to desegregate public schools. Bernie Sanders…

bubmagJuly 10, 2019

Feudalism

We are the Losers: Played Again by King Donald

I spent last weekend considering the latest word salad plated by our Accidental President and enjoying some of the endless satirical memes about Revolutionary air forces and such, until they became tiresome and predictablewhich was in about five minutes. (Sti…

bubmagJuly 10, 2019

Super Komachi

easyJet launches onboard ‘Flybraries’ to promote family reading this summer

EasyJet has launched an onboard lending library with more than 60,000 books available on more than 300 planes this summer. The new onboard Flybraries want to make it easier for parents and children to incorporate reading into their summer holiday. Five ti…

bubmagJuly 10, 2019

Viewpoint: Supermassive Black Hole May Constrain Superlight Dark Matter

You Can Now Uber a Helicopter, but You Probably Shouldn’t

How Richest People Changed Their Lives Since Earning Their First Billion (11 pics)

Emmy-winning actor Rip Torn has died at the age of 88 – CityNews Toronto

New bid to recover Indigenous stolen wages in WA with earlier payment labelled ‘a pittance’

For years, automakers wildly overpromised on self-driving cars and electric vehicles—what now?

The Messy Reality of Personalized Learning

Joe Biden: Protector of the Deep State

We are the Losers: Played Again by King Donald

easyJet launches onboard ‘Flybraries’ to promote family reading this summer

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