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Upcoming Very Bad Idea #992: Using VR in the courtroom

2016-05-31 19:41:21| Extremetech

Virtual reality could be on its way to courtrooms, but the technology is far better suited to evoking fantasy than reality.

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Would leaving the EU be bad for pensioners?

2016-05-27 15:10:40| BBC News | Business | UK Edition

Ros Altmann says leaving the EU would be bad for pensioners. Is she right?

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Brazils impeachment crisis is bad news for climate change

2016-05-27 13:10:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Grist: It may be hard to recall amid all the bad news coming from Brazil these days -- the country`s worst recession in 30 years, its unprecedented corruption crisis, and above all the May 12 Senate vote to suspend President Dilma Rousseff and begin an impeachment trial against her -- but this country has in recent years occupied a position of critical global leadership on climate change. Brazil is the worlds biggest reducer of greenhouse gas emissions, having slashed Amazon deforestation about 80 percent...

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Amid 'bad year' for coral, UN launches tool and report outlining ways to protect threatened reefs

2016-05-25 14:51:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Malaysian Sun: At the second United Nations Environment Assembly (UNEA-2) taking place in Nairobi this week, the UN Environment Programme (UNEP) was among a group of agencies launching a new tool and report that recommends ways to protect threatened coral reefs. "Humans have left an indelible mark on the marine environment that has led to almost 20 per cent of coral reefs disappearing. But coral reefs are an invaluable natural asset we can"t afford to lose," said UNEP Executive Director Achim Steiner in a press...

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