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1 month ago | 
thebulletin.org | Kelly Weinersmith |Zach Weinersmith |Erik English
By Kelly Weinersmith and Zach WeinersmithIllustrations by Zach Weinersmith with select images courtesy of Penguin PressLayout by Erik EnglishMarch 20, 2025 The world is nearly all parcelled out,and what there is left of it is beingdivided up, conquered, and colonised. To think of these stars that you see overhead at night,these vast worlds which we can never reach.
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2 months ago | 
thebulletin.org | Matt Field |Erik English
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Nov 1, 2024 | 
thebulletin.org | John Mecklin |Joe Cirincione |Erik English
It’s become a social media sport to mock citizens who have not yet made up their minds on how to vote in this year’s US presidential election, especially if they say they need “more information” before making their choice. The needling is valid, to a point; after all, Kamala Harris has been vice president for the last 3.75 years, and Donald Trump was president for the preceding four. Google the two names; “insufficient information” won’t be the first search return, I promise you.
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Oct 31, 2024 | 
thebulletin.org | Erik English
An Anopheles-arabiensis mosquito, a known vector for the transmission of malaria, obtains a blood meal through its labrum. (CDC / James Gathany) In case you missed it, last week the World Health Organization (WHO) certified that Egypt is malaria-free.
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Oct 10, 2024 | 
thebulletin.org | Erik English
Since 2014, the Chinese Communist Party has perpetuated human rights abuses against Uyghurs and other Turkic Muslim minorities in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region under the guise of anti-terrorism and anti-extremism—subjecting them to forced labor, mass detention, and land transfers. Now, a new report reveals that some Chinese pharmaceutical products made using forced labor in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region have reached the global marketplace.
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Sep 19, 2024 | 
thebulletin.org | Phillips P. O’Brien |Erik English
There should have been a nuclear war by now—at least if the wargames and academic models of state behavior are to be believed. For the last two-and-a-half years, Ukraine, in its fight to protect its land and people, has repeatedly and in an escalatory fashion continued to flout the warnings of nuclear-armed Russia. In doing so, the Ukrainians have steadily done things that were confidently claimed to be clear triggers for Russian nuclear weapons use.
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Aug 15, 2024 | 
thebulletin.org | Jessica McKenzie |Erik English
Illustration by Erik English; original images from Svante Arrhenius (1896); Guy Callendar (1938); Fred Schilling, Public Domain, Collection of the Supreme Court of the United States; Grkic Creative via Adobe.
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Aug 5, 2024 | 
thebulletin.org | Erik English
The only instances of atomic weapons being used against a civilian population occurred in 1945 at the tail end of World War II. On August 6, 1945, “Little Boy” was detonated above the Japanese city of Hiroshima. Three days later, “Fat Man” was detonated above Nagasaki. The aftermath of the bombings was the complete devastation of both cities in which countless numbers of people lost their lives.
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Jul 22, 2024 | 
thebulletin.org | Erik English
Above: Mayor of Paris Anne Hidalgo is seen swimming in the river Seine on July 17, 2024 in Paris, France. The city's mayor took a dip in the Seine amid concerns over water cleanliness ahead of the Olympic Games, in which the river will host triathlon and marathon swimming events. (Photo by Pierre Suu/Getty Images)With the Olympics set to kick off, the eyes of the world turn to Paris and the young athletes who’ve trained for years for a chance to compete for their country.
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May 8, 2024 | 
thebulletin.org | Erik English
The Swedish city of Malmö is on high alert this week as authorities expect large-scale protests objecting to Israel’s participation in Eurovision amid the ongoing war in Gaza. The police have called in reinforcements from Denmark and Norway, and are in some cases arming them with submachine guns. Pro-Palestinian protestors are staging large demonstrations calling for Israel to be disqualified from the world’s largest song contest.
