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Super Komachi

Island-hopping in search of history and literary giants

Setouchi is an area around the Seto Inland Sea. Located west of Osaka and Kyoto, the region’s major cities of Hiroshima and Matsuyama are connected by a chain of small islands. The renovated Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum When journeying to Hiroshima, visi…

bubmagJune 25, 2019

Scotland

These Seaweed-Muching Sheep in Scotland Need Someone to Fix Their Wall

North Ronaldsay island, a flat, windswept freckle at the northern edge of Scotland’s Orkney archipelago, is home to a few dozen humans and some very special sheep. Unlike their grass-chomping counterparts elsewhere, this sure-footed flock—some 2,500 strong—ro…

bubmagJune 25, 2019

BUK-Missile

Bellingcat Interview: Eliot Higgins On MH17, Russia And The Iran Tanker Attack Videos

Share to facebookShare to twitterShare to linkedin Eliot Higgins started Bellingcat as an online citizen investigation project back in July 2014. Frustrated with the limitations of simple blogging, Higgins had decided to s…

bubmagJune 25, 2019

Yemen Civil War

Senate panel advances bill to restrict emergency arms sales

The Senate Foreign Relations Committee advanced Tuesday a bill that would restrict the presidents ability to approve emergency sales without a congressional review period. The bill advanced by voice vote, with some Republicans announcing their opposition to …

bubmagJune 25, 2019

Yemen Civil War

The Seasons After the Arab Spring

Sudanese women wave Sudanese flags during a demonstration in Khartoum, Sudan, on June 20, 2019. (REUTERS / Umit Bektas) Images of popular protests that recall the revolutionary movement of 2011 have dominated news from the Arabic-speaking world for months. U…

bubmagJune 25, 2019

Android

Did ‘Legion’ Just Reference The Marvel Cinematic Universe?

bubmagJune 25, 2019

Computers in School

Here’s What It’s Like to Teach Artificial Intelligence to High Schoolers

Philadelphia Artificial Intelligence is all over the headlines, but it's not all over K-12 curriculca—yet. Many high schools are still struggling to offer computer science, much less instruction in cutting-edge systems that are designed to take in massive am…

bubmagJune 25, 2019

The Queen

Who Pays for the Royal Family’s Glamour?

Buckingham Palace has released its annual financial report, and you can probably guess which story the tabloids ran with: The eye-popping cost of Harry and Meghans renovations at Frogmore Cottage, which came to roughly $3 million. What makes that price tag pa…

bubmagJune 25, 2019

Hiroshima

16 Savage Teddy Roosevelt Insults

Before he assumed the pen name George Orwell, Eric Arthur Blair had a relatively normal upbringing for an upper-middle-class English boy of his time. Looking back now, his life proved to be anything but ordinary. He's best known for penning the dystopian nove…

bubmagJune 25, 2019

Palestine

Trump puts the cart before the horse in Palestine

After a long wait, the Trump team led by Jared Kushner just released its blueprint for how to grow the Palestinian economy, and a glitzy workshop is being held Tuesday and Wednesday in Bahrain. As the U.S government official who from 2013-2017 was responsibl…

bubmagJune 25, 2019

Island-hopping in search of history and literary giants

These Seaweed-Muching Sheep in Scotland Need Someone to Fix Their Wall

Bellingcat Interview: Eliot Higgins On MH17, Russia And The Iran Tanker Attack Videos

Senate panel advances bill to restrict emergency arms sales

The Seasons After the Arab Spring

Did ‘Legion’ Just Reference The Marvel Cinematic Universe?

Here’s What It’s Like to Teach Artificial Intelligence to High Schoolers

Who Pays for the Royal Family’s Glamour?

16 Savage Teddy Roosevelt Insults

Trump puts the cart before the horse in Palestine

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