Large corporations, including some of the world’s largest advertisers, have pulled ads from Facebook and Instagram in recent days. Unilever, one of the largest advertisers on the planet, said it would cancel its ad placements with the social media giant for the rest of 2020. The company makes Dove soap; …
Read More »Pakistan’s national airline moves to allay concern over pilot licenses
FILE PHOTO: A police officer stands guard next to a truck loaded with the wreckage of Pakistan International Airlines plane PK8303, in Karachi, Pakistan, May 28, 2020. REUTERS / Akhtar Soomro / File Photo ISLAMABAD / KARACHI, Pakistan (Reuters) – Pakistan’s national airline has written to foreign missions and global …
Read More »Princeton University to remove Woodrow Wilson’s name from buildings
The Princeton University Board of Trustees voted Friday to change the name of the school of politics to the Princeton School of Public and International Affairs, according to the statement. The university previously named to him will be known as “First College” in recognition of its “status as the first …
Read More »SARS-CoV-2 traces detected in Barcelona wastewater since March 2019
Note that the University of Barcelona study is a preprint and as such has not yet been peer reviewed. COVID-19 was announced in Wuhan, China in early December 2019 and would reach all over the world later, including Europe. The first case in Europe was announced in France in late …
Read More »Could we extract energy from a black hole? Our experiment verifies the old theory
A spinning black hole is such an extreme force of nature that it drags time and the surrounding space with it. Therefore, it is natural to wonder if black holes could be used as some kind of energy source. In 1969, mathematical physicist Roger Penrose proposed a method for doing …
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