Day: September 3, 2018

Reporting the news isn’t illegal, unless you’re in Myanmar. The Southeast Asian country this week sentenced two reporters from Reuters to seven years in jail in response to an investigative report that uncovered atrocities committed against Rohingya Muslims by the army. Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe […]

It’s an abnormally hot day in September and I’m standing in a cattail marsh in eastern Wisconsin, trying to change the way my students view the world. They’re all distracted—by the heat, homesickness, or the fact that they’ve lost a phone signal. The guys on […]

La discussione sulla riforma delle Pensioni, a partire dall'introduzione della Quota 100, sta per entrare nel vivo. Dopo la pausa estiva, infatti, … by Livio Acerbo #greengroundit

Committee head Mike Gold indicated that the committee would also consider scrapping “obsolete” regulations to let American astronauts support private activities aboard the International Space Station. Companies shouldn’t have to “turn to Russian cosmonauts” for private operations, he said, suggesting that astronauts could even be […]

Nell’interrogatorio di convalida del fermo hanno negato ogni responsabilità. Tutti e tre i giovani fermati con l’accusa di violenza sessuale di gruppo sostengono di non avere stuprato le due ragazze diciassettenni che si trovavavano in vacanza a Menaggio, sul lago di Como, dove loro lavoravano […]

Watch the 2018 Great British Bake Off: when’s it on? The Great British Bake Off 2018 series 2 (aka series 9) is here and showing at 8pm BST on the UK’s free-to-air Channel 4 every Tuesday night. Spin-off show An Extra Slice will be back […]

Latin American small businesses just got a big boost with a new commitment for a $200 million lending joint venture between the Bogota-based startup Portal Finance and Latin America’s largest financial services institution, BTG Pactual. For Portal Finance, the deal with BTG caps a meteoric […]

Terrence O’BrienManaging Editor I love just about any gadget that makes noise and at least approximates what you could call “music.” I’ve got countless cheap synths, from classics like the Casio VL-1 to DIY Atari Punk Consoles. And in March I became obsessed with the […]