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Greta Thunberg

Sixteen-Year-Old Climate Activist Greta Thunberg Has Book Deal For Prominent Speeches

Share to facebook Share to twitter Share to linkedin 16-year-old Swedish environmental activist Greta Thunberg has a UK book deal for a collection of her speeches, No One Is Too Small to Make A Difference, to be published in June 2019. (AP Photo/Alessandra…

bubmagMay 8, 2019

Super Komachi

10 magical Japanese gardens you must visit

For centuries, the Japanese have re-created their favourite native scenery in their gardens, not only in their pond plots but also in their more esoteric-looking stone-and-gravel dry gardens. Travelling by Japan's well-organised transport network is an excel…

bubmagMay 8, 2019

AR-15

Meghan McCain would like to see Seth Meyers’ manager after he suggests being more careful with words

The inviolable line between show-biz camaraderie and political difference fairly trembled on last nights Late Night, when Seth Meyers invited The View co-host and former Saturday Night Live intern Meghan McCain on to talk about Representative Ilhan Omar. Natu…

bubmagMay 8, 2019

Nukes

Factbox: Iran’s commitments under its nuclear deal

VIENNA (Reuters) - Iran’s president on Wednesday threatened to reduce his country’s implementation of its nuclear commitments under its landmark 2015 deal with major powers. That deal, signed by the United States, Russia, China, France, Britain and Germany,…

bubmagMay 8, 2019

Korean Peace Talks

Pentagon suspends efforts to recover troops’ remains as North Korea talks stall

SEOUL (Reuters) - It was one of the most concrete agreements to come out of the first U.S.-North Korea summit last year, but now the Pentagon says it has given up hope of recovering any more remains of U.S. troops killed in the 1950-1953 Korean War in the nea…

bubmagMay 8, 2019

Geely

Polestar sets up R&D centre in Coventry to develop more EVs

Polestar has confirmed it has established a new research and development centre in Coventry, West Midlands. The new facility, expected to be linked to parent company Geelysdesign studio close to the city, will allow the Volvo-linked performance brand to inc…

bubmagMay 8, 2019

Machine Learning

Want to hire the best team? Don’t hire the “best” people

While in graduate school in mathematics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, I took a logic course from David Griffeath. The class was fun. Griffeath brought a playfulness and openness to problems. Much to my delight, about a decade later, I ran into him a…

bubmagMay 8, 2019

Machine Learning

Want to hire the best team? Don’t hire the “best” people

While in graduate school in mathematics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, I took a logic course from David Griffeath. The class was fun. Griffeath brought a playfulness and openness to problems. Much to my delight, about a decade later, I ran into him a…

bubmagMay 8, 2019

Unwelcome Refugees

Facebook’s ‘fake news’ problem won’t be solved by banning right-wing, anti-Semitic trolls

If Facebook wants to show us theyre opposed to hate speech, banning individual trolls is about as effective as a Band-Aid on a sucking chest wound painful, messy, and worse than useless. In 2016, when I was managing editor at fact-checking site Snopes.com, w…

bubmagMay 8, 2019

Belt and Road

Patrick Wack’s photos of Xinjiang show beauty and despair on China’s new frontier

Nearly three times the size of France, and taking up around one sixth of Chinas total area, Xinjiang is a vast expanse of harsh desert, broken up sporadically by small cities, towns and industrial settlements. Once the first leg of the Silk Road, an ancient t…

bubmagMay 8, 2019

Sixteen-Year-Old Climate Activist Greta Thunberg Has Book Deal For Prominent Speeches

10 magical Japanese gardens you must visit

Meghan McCain would like to see Seth Meyers’ manager after he suggests being more careful with words

Factbox: Iran’s commitments under its nuclear deal

Pentagon suspends efforts to recover troops’ remains as North Korea talks stall

Polestar sets up R&D centre in Coventry to develop more EVs

Want to hire the best team? Don’t hire the “best” people

Want to hire the best team? Don’t hire the “best” people

Facebook’s ‘fake news’ problem won’t be solved by banning right-wing, anti-Semitic trolls

Patrick Wack’s photos of Xinjiang show beauty and despair on China’s new frontier

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