Monthly Archives: November 2019

From Good Works to Good Ideas: Educating the #SolutionaryGeneration

Kids are doing all sorts of good works these days. More often than not their efforts are focused on: 1) Raising money for charities2) Collecting and providing food and essentials to the poor, and/or3) Participating in local clean-up efforts to protect neighborhood environments. Such efforts are positive and should be encouraged. Yet because these good […]

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Silverstone trashes ‘pure fiction’ report of ticket sales offer to F1

The BRDC has rubbished a story published by the Mail on Sunday and website Pitpass claiming that it would hand over tickets sales to F1 to secure the future of the British Grand Prix at Silverstone. The report claimed that the venerable British institution and the proud owner of Silverstone had suggested to Liberty Media […]

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Rich Nations Failing to Meet Climate Obligations at Expense of Poor: Report

The U.S. and other wealthy nations are not pulling their weight in the climate change fight and may be setting the world on an even more devastating climate track, a new report published Monday reveals. Globally, governments’ pledges to limit greenhouse gas emissions are not adequate to stave off an average surface temperature warming of […]

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UN Report Shows World's Pledges for Paris Are Recipe for Climate 'Disaster'

The latest United Nations (UN) analysis of the climate pledges of world governments reveals the commitments are not enough to avert “climate catastrophe,” green groups warned on Friday. UN climate chief Christiana Figueres and German State Secretary Jochen Flasbarth presented in Berlin on Friday their report (pdf) on the effects of 146 participating countries’ Intended […]

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Crazy Hot Future Could Make Persian Gulf Unfit for Human Habitation

Should carbon emissions and global warming continue to rise unabated, parts of the Persian Gulf region could be hit with “unprecedented events of deadly heat” within this century, according to new research published Monday in the journal Nature Climate Change. “Our results expose a specific regional hotspot where climate change, in the absence of significant […]

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Remaking the Middle East: How the US Grew Tired and Less Irrelevant

Ramzy Baroud (www.ramzybaroud.net) is an author and editor of PalestineChronicle.com. His work has been published in many newspapers, journals and anthologies around the world. His is the author of The Second Palestinian Intifada: A Chronicle of a People’s Struggle (Pluto Press, London). His latest book is My Father Was a Freedom Fighter: Gaza’s Untold Story […]

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Kendall Jenner Rocks Life of Pablo Pop-Up Shop Gear at Guns N’ Roses Concert

Kanye West excited fans the world over when he took to Twitter Wednesday night to announce that 21 Life of Pablo merchandise pop-up stores would be springing up around the globe this weekend only. It comes as no surprise that sister-in-law Kendall Jenner was one of the first to score some of the highly sought-after […]

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Sainz convinced Red Bull/Ferrari faster than McLaren benchmark

Carlos Sainz kept McLaren at the top of the timesheet on Wednesday, but the Spaniard is under no illusions that Red Bull and Ferrari have the potential to beat his benchmark time. Sainz picked up where team mate Lando Norris left off on Tuesday, posting the fastest lap so far in pre-season testing at the […]

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New Mercedes race engineer equates to ‘fresh start’ for Bottas

Valtteri Bottas will be working with a new race engineer this year, a change the Mercedes driver believes will provide him with “a bit of a fresh start” for 2019. Internal changes in Mercedes’ engineering department led to Tony Ross – Bottas’ former race engineer – assigned to the German manufacturer’s new Formula E programme. […]

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Renault anxious about ‘crucial’ delay to 2021 regulations

The Renault F1 team says that the ongoing delay in finalising new rules for the sport for 2021 and beyond is becoming a major headache. Renault’s F1 president Jerome Stoll said that it was ‘crucial’ that the sport’s owners Liberty Media gave teams some certainty on the issue of F1’s future direction. “We are very […]

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