November 2015 – BTW – Stuff You Should Know

Full-length view of an Atlantic Salmon (Salmo salar) swimming in a museum aquarium, Doaktown, New Brunswick, Canada. (c) steve bly / Alamy. MHE World.

Stuff YOU Should Know

November 27, 2015 btwuser 0

Terrorist Attack in Mali Just days after the mass shootings in Paris, terrorists shot and killed at least 20 people in the Republic of Mali […]

Activist and graduate student Jonathan Butler gestures to invite bystanders to join a "We Are Not Afraid" march including local and regional Concerned Student 1950 supporters Friday, Nov. 13, 2015 while in Greek town on Richmond Avenue on the University of Missouri campus in Columbia, Mo. (Daniel Brenner/Columbia Daily Tribune via AP) MANDATORY CREDIT. Daniel Brenner/Columbia Daily Tribune/AP Images. http://www.apimages.com/metadata/Index/University-Of-Missouri-Turmoil/6d659b410779467fa45a66c88ae04a19/1/0.

Students Force Change at University of Missouri

November 20, 2015 btwuser 0

It’s been more than a year since the shooting death of Michael Brown flared racial tensions in Ferguson, Missouri and led to massive protests. Earlier this […]

People pay respect to the victims in front of the Carillon Restaurant in Paris, Monday, Nov. 16, 2015, where terrorists attacked last Friday. Thousands of French troops deployed around Paris and tourist sites stood shuttered in one of the most visited cities on Earth. Frank Augstein/AP Images. http://www.apimages.com/metadata/Index/France-Paris-Attacks/4ad5d96a48674b61aca70833d8c278f3/1/0.

ISIS Strikes Beirut and Paris

November 17, 2015 btwuser 0

Last Friday, November 13, terrorists conducted several attacks in Paris. There were also terrorist attacks the day before in Beirut, Lebanon. In both cases, the […]

Selective focus waist-length view of a teenage girl holding her cell phone and looking at the camera with a worried or scared expression, two out-of-focus other girls looking at her in the background. © SpeedKingz/Shutterstock.com. MHE World.

Stuff YOU Should Know

November 17, 2015 btwuser 0

Russian Jet Crash Suspicious Last month, a Russian airliner exploded over the Sinai Peninsula in Egypt. All 224 passengers were killed. Unlike the Malaysian plane […]

Big oil refinery in Texas City Texas. McGraw-Hill Education. MHE World.

Obama Rejects Keystone Pipeline (Again)

November 16, 2015 btwuser 0

Last year, btw wanted to know your thoughts about the Keystone XL Pipeline. Earlier this month, President Obama formally rejected the permit that would allow […]

Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee appears on a series of television monitors in the media center before the start of the CNBC Republican presidential debate at the University of Colorado, Wednesday, Oct. 28, 2015, in Boulder, Colo. (AP Photo/Mark J. Terrill).Mark J. Terrill/AP Images. http://www.apimages.com/metadata/Index/GOP-2016-Debate/371aa866464a491288dbd0e7228e78af/1/0

Republican Debates: 3 Down…

November 8, 2015 btwuser 0

The Republican National Committee kicked off its season of debates in late summer. On August 3, there was a “forum” in New Hampshire, where eleven […]

Head-and-shoulders view of a mixed-race girl counting on her fingers and writing in a notebook in class. ©JGI/Jamie Grill/Blend Images LLC. MHE World.

Stuff YOU Should Know

November 6, 2015 btwuser 0

Robotic Cars Face Experimental Ethics A couple of years ago, btw brought you a story about driverless cars. Spearheaded by Google X, the experimental division […]