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Hiroshima

Catastrophic meteors: How space scientists hope to protect ‘the only planet we know’ – CTV News

NASA is warning that meteors pose a major threat to Earth, so agencies are already testing out ways to defend against them by using lasers or by ramming spacecraft into them. During a conference last week, NASA administrator Jim Bridenstine explained that no…

bubmagMay 6, 2019

Non-renewable Resources

Nature’s dangerous decline ‘unprecedented,’ species extinction rates ‘accelerating’

Nature is declining globally at rates unprecedented in human history — and the rate of species extinctions is accelerating, with grave impacts on people around the world now likely, warns a landmark new report from the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platfor…

bubmagMay 6, 2019

Super Heroes

If ‘Spider-Man: Far From Home’ Introduces the Multiverse, What Does This Mean for the Future of the MCU?

Superhero comics have always been a playground for the imagination, more so than any other creative medium. If you have a great idea for a dead character, there’s always a way to bring them back. If you have a great idea that shatters the laws of the natural …

bubmagMay 6, 2019

Water Scarcity

We Sleep With Taps Open, In Case Water Turns On – Harare Residents

By Jeffrey GogoMike (not his real name) lives with his mother in a 3-bedroomed house in Mabelreign. The mother is often away for days attending to her religious calling. A 22-year old bachelor rents a room on Mike's premises. He works in the mines outside Ha…

bubmagMay 6, 2019

The Queen

Meghan Markle has gone into labor and the royal baby is on the way

The Duchess of Sussex is in labor, Buckingham Palace has confirmed. "The Duchess went into labour in the early hours of this morning. "The Duke of Sussex was by Her Royal Highnesses' side. An announcement will be made soon," the palace said in a stateme…

bubmagMay 6, 2019

Recycling

The Amazing Seebeck Generator

Photograph by Steve Double Peltier cells are flat devices that draw heat from one side to the other through a thermoelectric principle called the Peltier effect. The cells are commonly used to pump heat away from CPUs or graphics cards, and are also found in…

bubmagMay 6, 2019

Slavery Abolition

‘O Captain! My Captain!’ Walt Whitman, Two Centuries Later

Walt Whitman and Peter Doyle, 1865. Photo: Moses P. Rice and Sons. Feinberg-Whitman collection. Walt Whitman, that most exuberant of poets, the 19th century bard of transcendent sensitivity, sensuousness and epic vision, was given to intimate correspondence …

bubmagMay 6, 2019

Star Wars

Star Wars News: George Lucas Worked on the ‘Rise of Skywalker’ Story

It would stand to reason that the weeks following Star Wars Celebration would be light on Star Wars news, considering those five days gave the fans a movie title, a new trailer, lots of details about the Mandalorian TV show and the Star Wars: Galaxy's Edge th…

bubmagMay 6, 2019

Non-renewable Resources

Evolving Clean Energy Solutions Offer Consumers New Alternatives

NEW YORK, May 6, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- The constant use of non-renewable energy resources such as coal, oil, and natural gas have all negatively affected the environment. To some extent, non-renewable resources are held accountable for adverse effects such as …

bubmagMay 6, 2019

Slavery Abolition

The GOP would not win elections without resorting to the filthiest tactics — and they’ll do anything to keep minorities from voting

Three years after the end of the Civil War, Florida, like other former Confederate states, began working to nullify the wars outcome. In 1868, to gain reentry to the Union, the state had to adopt a new Constitution that accepted the end of slavery and adopted…

bubmagMay 6, 2019

Catastrophic meteors: How space scientists hope to protect ‘the only planet we know’ – CTV News

Nature’s dangerous decline ‘unprecedented,’ species extinction rates ‘accelerating’

If ‘Spider-Man: Far From Home’ Introduces the Multiverse, What Does This Mean for the Future of the MCU?

We Sleep With Taps Open, In Case Water Turns On – Harare Residents

Meghan Markle has gone into labor and the royal baby is on the way

The Amazing Seebeck Generator

‘O Captain! My Captain!’ Walt Whitman, Two Centuries Later

Star Wars News: George Lucas Worked on the ‘Rise of Skywalker’ Story

Evolving Clean Energy Solutions Offer Consumers New Alternatives

The GOP would not win elections without resorting to the filthiest tactics — and they’ll do anything to keep minorities from voting

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