bubmag

Black Hole

Kids is a horror game that doesn’t look like a horror game

Kids looks like a physics toy, an arty, knockabout playful thing. There are cartoon crowds. There's a cartoon black hole. You run a finger or a cursor over the stuff on the screen and see what happens. But "cartoon" isn't quite right and Kids isn't a physics…

bubmagJune 3, 2019

Recycling

Drowning in waste, Russians fume over lack of recycling

Roman Yudakov points in the distance to a stinking mountain of trash looming over the Russian capital and sighs: "Take a look at our pyramid!" The rubbish towers above the Timokhovo dump outside Moscow, one of the biggest in Europe. Authorities plan to build…

bubmagJune 3, 2019

Palestine

Pompeo: Jared Kushner’s Palestine plan “unexecutable;’ Kushner: Palestinians unready for Self-Rule

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – I can barely believe it. Mike Pompeo, who can believe 10 impossible things before breakfast every day, including the impending Rapture and Hilary Clinton’s responsibility for Benghazi, isn’t a complete Trumpbot after all. In p…

bubmagJune 3, 2019

Monsanto

RoundUp – understanding the risks

Glyphosate is a weed-killing chemical that was developed by corporate giant Monsanto in the early 1970s. It's an active ingredient in the herbicide Roundup and helps to eliminate unwanted plants and grasses from farms, public parks, school campuses, and other…

bubmagJune 3, 2019

Super Heroes

Bjorn To Kill: 10 Facts To Know About Thor’s Axe, Jarnbjorn

In a few weeks, we'll be at the midpoint of 2019. Not even a full month ago, Avengers: Endgame raked in billions of dollars at the box office. You almost can't go anywhere these days without hearing or seeing a reference to Earth's Mightiest Heroes. As it sta…

bubmagJune 3, 2019

Recycling

Ineos director: TV chef attack on plastic ‘pretty pathetic’ – BBC News

Image copyrightGetty Images A director of UK energy firm Ineos has described a campaign by TV chef Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall about plastic on Scottish beaches as "pretty pathetic". Tom Crotty said the chef had taken a simplistic view on plastic in his BBC…

bubmagJune 3, 2019

Economic prosperity, political repression mark China 30 years after Tiananmen

BEIJING, China Thirty years since the Tiananmen Square protests, China's economy has catapulted up the world rankings, yet political repression is harsher than ever. Hundreds of thousands of Muslims are held in re-education camps without charge, student acti…

bubmagJune 3, 2019

Matteo Salvini

Europe is ‘being attacked’ by ‘ideologies’: Pope calls on politicians not to ‘sow hate’

Pope Francis said Sunday politicians should “never sow hatred and fear” in an answer to a question about Matteo Salvini, Italy’s strongman and leader of the far-right. The pontiff told journalists on the return leg of a three-day trip to Romania that it woul…

bubmagJune 3, 2019

Protectionism

US recession odds jump as Trump trade wars bite: survey

Washington (AFP) - The odds of a US recession by next year have increased sharply, with mounting protectionism continuing to pose the greatest economic threat, according to a business economic survey Monday. Nearly all the respondents to the quarterly survey…

bubmagJune 3, 2019

Scotland

Outlander: 10 Facts About Jamie And Claire From The Books The Show Leaves Out

Outlander is a television show that takes you back in time to the rolling hills and beautiful landscape of Scotland in the 18th-century. We meet Claire Randall, a WWII nurse who travels back to this time and meets and falls in love with a Highlander named Jam…

bubmagJune 3, 2019

Kids is a horror game that doesn’t look like a horror game

Drowning in waste, Russians fume over lack of recycling

Pompeo: Jared Kushner’s Palestine plan “unexecutable;’ Kushner: Palestinians unready for Self-Rule

RoundUp – understanding the risks

Bjorn To Kill: 10 Facts To Know About Thor’s Axe, Jarnbjorn

Ineos director: TV chef attack on plastic ‘pretty pathetic’ – BBC News

Europe is ‘being attacked’ by ‘ideologies’: Pope calls on politicians not to ‘sow hate’

US recession odds jump as Trump trade wars bite: survey

Outlander: 10 Facts About Jamie And Claire From The Books The Show Leaves Out

General Information

Ask me anything