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- Our closest neighboring star system sounds like a terrible place to live
Wednesday - 02/28/2018 - 08:20 AMInstead of hosting planet-friendly dust, Proxima Centauri spews radiation. … , an astrophysicist at the Carnegie Institute who studies debris discs around other stars. ” Our solar system has discs, we have the asteroid belt and Kuiper belt, which we think are leftover material from when ...
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Black Panther, black women, and the politics of black hair
Wednesday - 02/28/2018 - 08:50 AMBold ( and bald) women, royal matriarchs, independent, astute ladies, stern, witty( and humorous women – this is Black Panther . Female representation in all of its nuance is refreshingly depicted …...More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- Astronomers detect signal of Universe’s first stars
Wednesday - 02/28/2018 - 02:18 PMA signal from the Universe’s first stars, born a cosmic heartbeat after the Big Bang, has been detected for the first time, astronomers said Wednesday, setting the science world aflutter.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- US Olympics chief resigns in wake of abuse scandal
Wednesday - 02/28/2018 - 05:34 PMUnited States Olympic Committee chief executive Scott Blackmun has stepped down following calls for his resignation in the wake of the USA gymnastics abuse scandal, it was confirmed on Wednesday.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- ICE attacks Oakland mayor for warning residents about immigration sweeps; she stands by her actions
Thursday - 03/01/2018 - 06:22 AMLOS ANGELES — The war of words between the Trump administration and officials in California over immigration intensified around federal sweeps in the north of the state that ended with more than 150 arrests....More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- Fresh blizzards sweep across Europe, travellers stranded
Thursday - 03/01/2018 - 06:53 AMFresh heavy snowfalls and icy blizzards were expected to lash Europe Thursday as the region shivers in a deadly deep-freeze that has gripped countries from the far north to the Mediterranean south.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- Antarctica: a laboratory for climate change
Thursday - 03/01/2018 - 07:57 AMA decade ago, a thick layer of ice covered the Collins Glacier on Antarctica’s King George Island. Now, the rocky landscape is visible to the naked eye, in a region that is both a victim of and a laboratory for climate change.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- Sex slave issue: South Korea’s Moon criticizes Japan
Thursday - 03/01/2018 - 08:16 AMSouth Korea’s President Moon Jae-in has once again criticised Japan over its wartime use of “comfort women”, calling it a “crime against humanity”. Moon said in a speech on Thursday, a national …...More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- Majority of Americans believe that Trump is a racist after first year of his presidency
Thursday - 03/01/2018 - 08:56 AMMajority of Americans Believe That Trump Is a Racist After First Year of His Presidency President Donald Trump often says he’s the “least racist person” anyone could ever meet. The American people disagree.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- French festival rejects pressure to pull killer rocker from line-up
Thursday - 03/01/2018 - 01:11 PMThe organisers of a music festival in northern France have defied pressure to pull a once-idolised French rocker, who beat his actress girlfriend to death, from their summer line-up. Over 60,000 people have signed a petition demanding that Bertrand Cantat, former frontman of Noir Desir, be removed f...More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- Women and children detained in ‘freezing cells’ on US border: HRW
Wednesday - 02/28/2018 - 08:47 AMWomen and children detained by US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) along the US-Mexico border are regularly held in freezing cells and suffer other harsh treatment, according to a new Human Rights …...More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- Trump nomination for Nobel Peace Prize possibly a fake
Wednesday - 02/28/2018 - 08:54 AMHas Donald Trump really been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize? The Norwegian Nobel Institute said Wednesday it had filed a police report after receiving a seemingly fraudulent nomination for the US president.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- Facebook’s Sheryl Sandberg uses investor meeting to urge gender equality
Wednesday - 02/28/2018 - 05:21 PMFacebook Inc Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg brought her message about workplace gender equality to a typically male domain on Wednesday, urging attendees at an investor conference to improve mentoring of junior female colleagues.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- ‘African Mona Lisa’ smashes estimates at London auction
Wednesday - 02/28/2018 - 05:58 PMA long-lost portrait of a Nigerian princess dubbed the “African Mona Lisa” sold at auction in London on Wednesday for £1.2 million (1.4 million euros, $1.7 million), exceeding estimates and setting a record for the artist.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- Why deporting the ‘Dreamers’ is immoral
Thursday - 03/01/2018 - 06:32 AMBy Michael Blake, Professor of Philosophy, Public Policy, and Governance, University of Washington. Immigrants and activists demonstrate in front of the Republican Party headquarters in Washington AP Photo/Luis Alonso Lugo On Feb.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- Death creeps through the brain as a ‘spreading wave’ of silence and inactivity
Thursday - 03/01/2018 - 06:55 AMNew research looks at the neurological processes of death. Image credits Alchemilla Mollis. We’re all afraid of dying – us and (almost) every other bit of life on this planet, as well.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- Putin boasts of new-generation ‘invincible’ weaponry
Thursday - 03/01/2018 - 08:14 AMPresident Vladimir Putin boasted Russia has developed a new generation of hypersonic missiles in his state of the nation address on Thursday, warning global powers they must now reckon with Moscow’s military might.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- International adoptions have dropped 72 percent since 2005 – here’s why
Thursday - 03/01/2018 - 08:25 AMBy Mark Montgomery, Professor of Economics, Grinnell College and Irene Powell, Professor of Economics, Grinnell College. When Ethiopia stopped allowing its children to be adopted by foreign parents in January, it became the latest country to eliminate or sharply curtail the practice....More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- From Smell-O-Vision to Astrocolor, the film industry’s biggest innovation flops
Thursday - 03/01/2018 - 09:50 AMBy Leo Braudy, Leo S. Bing Chair in English and American Literature, University of Southern California – Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences, Scott Higgins, Charles W. Fries Professor of Film Studies, Wesleyan University, Thomas Delapa, Lecturer, Department of Screen Arts & Culture, U...
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Trump to hit China, Europe with steep steel, aluminum ‘tariffs’
Thursday - 03/01/2018 - 02:02 PMDespite fierce opposition from inside the White House, US President Donald Trump announced punishing steel and aluminum tariffs Thursday, teeing up a possible trade war with China and Europe. Trump ended rumor and counter-rumor about his administration’s intent by saying that “next week”...More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- Obama makes pitch for his presidential center in Chicago’s Jackson Park
Wednesday - 02/28/2018 - 08:40 AMCHICAGO — Former President Barack Obama came to Chicago on Tuesday to again make the case for building his presidential center in Jackson Park, telling hundreds of people gathered at McCormick Place …...More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- Ex-Trump top aide Paul Manafort pleads not guilty, faces Sept. 17 trial
Wednesday - 02/28/2018 - 10:01 AMU.S. President Donald Trump’s former campaign manager Paul Manafort pleaded not guilty on Wednesday to a new indictment brought against him in the investigation into alleged Russian meddling in the 2016 election and will face trial in September.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- Trump lauds Billy Graham as the evangelist is brought to lie in honor in the Capitol Rotunda
Wednesday - 02/28/2018 - 03:04 PMWASHINGTON — A simple wooden casket bearing the body of evangelist Billy Graham was borne by a military unit on Wednesday into the U.S. Capitol and onto a black-draped catafalque in the Rotunda …...More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- Senators will try to pull US from Yemen war
Wednesday - 02/28/2018 - 06:36 PMU.S. lawmakers unveiled plans on Wednesday to use a decades-old law to force a Senate vote on whether to pull the country out of a foreign conflict, in this case the civil war in Yemen.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- We shouldn’t disregard the ideas that come from teens’ developing brains
Thursday - 03/01/2018 - 06:27 AMTeens may be works in progress, but they help society evolve. They’re quite aware of what they’re going through. Wikimedia Commons When the students of Stoneman Douglas High School started class on February 14, it seemed to be a Valentine’s Day like any other....More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- Apple to open boutique health care network for its workers
Thursday - 03/01/2018 - 07:02 AMCUPERTINO, Calif. — Local denizens of the Spaceship and other Apple offices will be getting boutique medical care starting this spring. The tech giant plans to launch a network of “AC Wellness” medical clinics for its employees and their families, according to the AC Wellness website, wh...More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- Veteran singer Joan Baez muses on Trump … and Hitler
Thursday - 03/01/2018 - 08:08 AMJoan Baez is musing about Donald Trump and even Hitler and what she believes is their shared lack of empathy. “Most of the weird ones have their pets,” she told AFP, referring to Hitler’s German Shepherd, Blondi.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- Oprah divulges the one thing that could change her mind about running for president
Thursday - 03/01/2018 - 08:53 AMOprah Winfrey previously made it clear that she has no plans to run for president of the United States in 2020, but she revealed to PEOPLE magazine that there’s one thing that could make her change her mind: God....More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- Facebook apologises for censoring prehistoric Venus statue
Thursday - 03/01/2018 - 09:28 AMFacebook apologised on Thursday for censoring the prehistoric “Venus of Willendorf” figurine, considered a masterpiece of the paleolithic era. “Our advertising policies do not allow nudity or implied nudity but we have an exception for statues.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- Far-right French politician Le Pen charged over grim ISIL photos
Thursday - 03/01/2018 - 03:51 PMFrench authorities filed preliminary charges against far-right politician Marine Le Pen on Thursday for the “distribution of violent images” on social media website Twitter. If convicted, Le Pen …...
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