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Mexico Border Wall

‘America deserves better. You should resign’

Attorney General William Barr testifies before the House Judiciary Committee hearing about special counsel Robert Muellers report and Barr's handling of the investigation. (Photo: Jack Gruber, USA TODAY) Another shooting, this time at the University of Nor…

bubmagMay 2, 2019

Global Warming

The trees told us: Scientists see fingerprint of warming climate on droughts from 1900

Story Highlights Tree ring data can be used to find droughts as far back as 1400. Greenhouse gases caused by humans have been affecting global drought since the early 20th century. Lead author Kate Marvel, a climate modeler at Goddard and Columbia, said, I…

bubmagMay 2, 2019

New York City

Lyft Fails to Overturn NYC Driver Minimum Wage Law

Lyfts lawsuit to overturn New York Citys minimum wage for ride-hailing drivers failed after a ruling by Judge Andrea Masley on Wednesday. The citys rule mandates that companies pay drivers, which are considered independent contractors and not company employe…

bubmagMay 2, 2019

Virtual Reality

Valve’s hilarious Index dongle somehow makes VirtualLink complicated

Valve’s Index virtual reality headset is the first that can be plugged into VirtualLink, the USB-C port you’ll find on most Nvidia RTX 2070 and greater Nvidia RTX 20-series graphics cards. But it only partially earns this distinction, as Valve’s support for V…

bubmagMay 2, 2019

Astroturfing

Fans staying away from Eurovision in Tel Aviv

Tamara NassarActivism and BDS Beat1 May 2019 Thousands have signed a petition calling on Irelands representative Sarah McTernan to withdraw from this months Eurovision Song Contest in Tel Aviv. RTÉ 2019Lili Forberg An Israeli government-backed propaganda i…

bubmagMay 2, 2019

Bees

Grow a garden to buzz about this spring

In response, Lori Wolfe and Jean Shildneck, organizers of the seventh annual Gardening Green Expo held recently, decided to open a public dialogue about these creatures at Kennedy Country Gardens in Scituate. Speakers discussed the theme of how people could …

bubmagMay 2, 2019

Obamacare

DOJ finalizes argument for gutting Obamacare – Washington Examiner

The Department of Justice on Wednesday spelled out its arguments siding with a federal judge who ruled last year that Obamacare was unconstitutional and needed to be thrown out. "Instead of rewriting the statute by picking and choosing which provisions to in…

bubmagMay 2, 2019

Palestine

Happy Cosmic Birthday! NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Celebrates 60 Years

It was 60 years ago today (May 1) that NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center received its official name, in a nod to famous rocket pioneer Robert H. Goddard — the person who tested the world's first liquid-fueled rocket. Early signs installed at NASA's Goddar…

bubmagMay 2, 2019

Cold War

Precipice puts a beastly spin on the Cold War today

If there’s one unifying line I’d draw between today’s release of Precipice and studio Little Red Dog’s earlier Deep Sixed, it would be stress. While fighting proxy wars and dodging nuclear annihilation is a different breed of stress than piloting the universe…

bubmagMay 1, 2019

Obamacare

DOJ lays out case for striking down Obamacare in its entirety

bubmagMay 1, 2019

‘America deserves better. You should resign’

The trees told us: Scientists see fingerprint of warming climate on droughts from 1900

Lyft Fails to Overturn NYC Driver Minimum Wage Law

Valve’s hilarious Index dongle somehow makes VirtualLink complicated

Fans staying away from Eurovision in Tel Aviv

Grow a garden to buzz about this spring

DOJ finalizes argument for gutting Obamacare – Washington Examiner

Happy Cosmic Birthday! NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Celebrates 60 Years

Precipice puts a beastly spin on the Cold War today

DOJ lays out case for striking down Obamacare in its entirety

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