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Korean War

How to Avoid Another Korean War

North Korean leader Kim Jong-un recently traveled on April 25 to meet with Russian president Vladimir Putin. According to their statements, Kim has not changed his position of keeping his nuclear arsenal unless he gets certain unclear security guarantees from…

bubmagApril 30, 2019

Obamacare

How Obamacare Lives On: Bloomberg QuickTake (Audio)

bubmagApril 30, 2019

Exoskeleton

May brings new additions to Xbox Game Pass

Eight more games are headed to Xbox Game Pass this May, meaning that the service’s already hefty lineup is getting a boost. The first of the new additions is Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus, heading to Game Pass on May 2nd. Wolfenstein II is set in an alte…

bubmagApril 30, 2019

Refugees

Ottawa! I’ll be at the Writers Festival this Saturday night (then Berlin for Re:publica and Houston for Comicpalooza!)

This Saturday, May 4, at 7:30PM, I'll be presenting at the Ottawa Writers Festival, talking about my novel Radicalized and how it ties into surveillance, monopoly, refugees, climate change, racism and oligarchy -- all the good stuff! From there, I'm heading …

bubmagApril 30, 2019

Jerusalem Controversy

Israel to name train stop in Jerusalem for Trump

Israel's transportation minister says that the country will name a train station in Jerusalem after President TrumpDonald John TrumpOnly one way with Huawei don't let it control 5GJapan's emperor is first to abdicate throne in two centuriesAir Force secretary…

bubmagApril 30, 2019

Android

Anki, maker of Cozmo and other toy robots, is shutting down

Anki has been one of the leading companies in this new age of smartphone-connected toys, alongside Sphero. Sadly, Anki has run out of money and is shutting its doors. Anki has made a few different toys over the past few years, including 'Overdrive' race cars…

bubmagApril 30, 2019

Feudalism

The Erosion of Everyday Life

by Charles Hugh-Smith Working hard and doing what youre told is no longer yielding the promised American Dream of security, agency and liberty. Volume One of Fernand Braudels oft-recommended (by me) trilogy Civilization & Capitalism, 15th to 18th Centur…

bubmagApril 30, 2019

Greta Thunberg

Most US eighth graders have taken apart a gadget to fix it or see how it works

Greta Thunberg is the Swedish teenager whose climate change school-strike spread around the world, leading to her addressing the COP24 conference, the World Economic Forum, and many other forums where she has distinguished herself with her brilliant oratory a…

bubmagApril 30, 2019

Black Hole

LIGO may have just spotted a black hole devouring a neutron star

The merger of a black hole and neutron star would be pretty messy Classical and Quantum Gravity By Leah Crane Its a clash of the titans. The Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) has spotted the signs of yet another enormous collision …

bubmagApril 30, 2019

Old-Age Poverty

A Kiwi teacher died at an anti-racism rally 40 years ago. Who killed him?

Steve Braunias looks into the killing of New Zealand schoolteacher Blair Peach on the 40th anniversary of his death at an anti-racism protest in London. English rain, constant, sometimes heavy, always miserable, falling all day long on that grey, bleak Monda…

bubmagApril 30, 2019

How to Avoid Another Korean War

How Obamacare Lives On: Bloomberg QuickTake (Audio)

May brings new additions to Xbox Game Pass

Ottawa! I’ll be at the Writers Festival this Saturday night (then Berlin for Re:publica and Houston for Comicpalooza!)

Israel to name train stop in Jerusalem for Trump

Anki, maker of Cozmo and other toy robots, is shutting down

The Erosion of Everyday Life

Most US eighth graders have taken apart a gadget to fix it or see how it works

LIGO may have just spotted a black hole devouring a neutron star

A Kiwi teacher died at an anti-racism rally 40 years ago. Who killed him?

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