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Fugees’ Prakazrel Michel charged in election finance case

Image copyrightGetty ImagesImage caption Prakazrel Michel has been charged with making contributions to a presidential campaign A founding member of hip-hop group The Fugees and a Malaysian businessman have been charged with making illegal contributions in…

bubmagMay 11, 2019

Iran Liberalism

Worth a Thousand Years of Waiting: The Staggering Rise of the Church in Iran

Robert Bruce, a Scottish missionary to Iranian Muslims in the late nineteenth century, wrote home to his supporters, I am not reaping the harvest; I scarcely claim to be sowing the seed; I am hardly ploughing the soil; but I am gathering out the stones. That,…

bubmagMay 11, 2019

AR-15

POTD: Helm Forge ST-1 Charging Handle Stiletto

Todays POTD doesn’t actually portray any firearm, but the connection with the AR-15 is obviously strong. It is the Helm Forge ST-1 self-defense tool. At first glance, the item looks like a modern style ambidextrous charging handle, similar for example to the…

bubmagMay 11, 2019

Slavery Abolition

Putting history on trial can be tricky: The case for Calhoun

A colleague volunteered some advice the other day about how I might leap into controversies over changing the honorary names of lakes and buildings and generally disinfecting the present from history’s toxic legacies. I’m not sure it’s wise to join this hist…

bubmagMay 11, 2019

Drones

Dive Underwater With This Toy Star Destroyer Submarine Hack

Adam Woodworth has a wonderful hobby of hacking together off-the-shelf Star Wars toys and common R/C components to make flying creations that look and maneuver just like the the ships and speeders we’ve all fallen in love with on the big screen. He’s delighte…

bubmagMay 11, 2019

Hrant Dink

On Armenian Genocide Remembrance Day Turkish President Erdogan Tweets the Genocide was ‘Reasonable’

bubmagMay 11, 2019

Monsanto

French prosecutor opens investigation over suspected Monsanto file

PARIS (Reuters) - The French prosecutor on Friday said it had opened a preliminary investigation into a suspected file assembled by Bayer’s seed maker Monsanto to influence various personalities in France. The probe was opened after a complaint was filed by…

bubmagMay 11, 2019

AR-15

The ‘Tactical Rabbi’ helps synagogues defend against anti-Semitic violence (Sonja Sharp/Los Angeles Times)

memeorandum is an auto-generated summary of the stories that US political commentators are discussing online right now. Unlike sister sites Techmeme ane Mediagazer, it is not a human-edited news outlet, but rather a media-monitoring tool for sophisticated ne…

bubmagMay 11, 2019

China's Strategy

The Enduring Mystery of Who Hacked Anthem

When American prosecutors unsealed an indictment on Thursday charging two individuals operating out of China, one of whom is a Chinese national, for their involvement in a massive breach of the American health insurer Anthem, one thing was notably missing fro…

bubmagMay 11, 2019

Big Data

Learn how to work with big data with this 76-hour training

Jobs in data analysis and big data are more in-demand than ever — and luckily for you, there's more demand from employers for qualified candidates than there is a talent pool to satisfy that need. Learn how to master big data and officially add this highly-de…

bubmagMay 11, 2019

Fugees’ Prakazrel Michel charged in election finance case

Worth a Thousand Years of Waiting: The Staggering Rise of the Church in Iran

POTD: Helm Forge ST-1 Charging Handle Stiletto

Putting history on trial can be tricky: The case for Calhoun

Dive Underwater With This Toy Star Destroyer Submarine Hack

On Armenian Genocide Remembrance Day Turkish President Erdogan Tweets the Genocide was ‘Reasonable’

French prosecutor opens investigation over suspected Monsanto file

The ‘Tactical Rabbi’ helps synagogues defend against anti-Semitic violence (Sonja Sharp/Los Angeles Times)

The Enduring Mystery of Who Hacked Anthem

Learn how to work with big data with this 76-hour training

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