Month: November 2019

When civilians are killed, media reaction is often contingent upon who did the killing and why. Instead of blanketly condemning such attacks, the bombing of civilians can be implicitly justified if those civilians were in the wrong place at the wrong time—say, in a Doctors Without Borders hospital in Afghanistan, or, more recently, in a […]

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Not so long ago, it was science fiction. Now, it’s hard science — and that should frighten us all. The latest reports from the prestigious and sober Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) make increasingly hair-raising reading, suggesting that the planet is approaching possible moments of irreversible damage in a fashion and at a speed […]

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You get a press…and you get a press…and you get a press! Oprah Winfrey has a thing for a certain high-tech juicer called the Juicero. It essentially looks (and operates) like a Keurig for juicing, and comes complete with a personalized weekly juice subscription. You connect the device to the Internet, personalize your weekly subscriptions, […]

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