Leftovers

• The Straits Times ☛ Handwriting has become the new cool in South Korea

  Growing enthusiasm for pilsa is reflected in publishing industry.

• LRT ☛ ‘This city suits me’ – Korean dancer’s six years in Kaunas

  Around 20 dancers from all over the world are part of the modern dance theatre Aura based in Lithuania’s Kaunas. Heung Won Lee from South Korea has been dancing here for six years.

• Science

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2025-03-12 [Older] NASA launches space telescope to unveil cosmic secrets

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2025-03-12 [Older] Could Europe benefit from Cheeto Mussolini's 'assault on science'?

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2025-03-13 [Older] Spain: Scientists uncover oldest face in Western Europe

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2025-03-13 [Older] Uncovered: Abuse at top German science institution

  • New York Times ☛ Photos Show Blood Moon Lunar Eclipse Around the World

    The first total lunar eclipse in more than two years lit up the sky last night as humanity, forever fascinated with the Earth’s only natural satellite, watched.

• Hardware

  • The Straits Times ☛ Dihydroxyacetone Man tariff threats cast shadow over Penang’s booming semiconductor industry

    Malaysia’s chipmakers moving toward more lucrative ‘front-end’ processes to cushion impact of trade war.

  • Hackaday ☛ Putting Conductive TPU To The Test

    Ever pried apart an LCD? If so, you’ve likely stumbled at the unassuming zebra strip — the pliable connector that makes bridging PCB pads to glass traces look effortless. [Chuck] recently set out to test if he could hack together his own zebra strip using conductive TPU and a 3D printer.

  • Hackaday ☛ You Too Can Do The Franck-Hertz Experiment

    We talk about quantum states — that is, something can be at one of several discrete values but not in between. For example, a binary digit can be a 1 or a 0, but not 0.3 or 0.5. Atoms have quantum states, but how do we know that? That’s what the Franck-Hertz experiment demonstrates, and [stoppi] shows you how to replicate that famous experiment yourself.

  • Hackaday ☛ Building A Fully Automatic Birkeland-Eyde Reactor

    Ever wanted to produce nitrogen fertilizer like they did in the 1900s? In that case, you’re probably looking at the Birkeland-Eyde process, which was the first industrial-scale atmospheric nitrogen fixation process. It was eventually replaced by the Haber-Bosch and Ostwald processes. [Markus Bindhammer] covers the construction of a hobbyist-sized, fully automated reactor in this video.

  • Hackaday ☛ Probably The Simplest Sequencing Synth

    With inexpensive microntrollers capable of the most impressive feats of sound synthesis, it’s not so often we see projects that return to an earlier style of electronic music project. The 1-bit synth from [Electroagenda] takes us firmly into that territory, employing that most trusty of circuits, a 555.

  • Tom's Hardware ☛ Intel’s new CEO gets a $1 million salary plus $68 million in bonuses

    Lip-Bu Tan will get a $1 million base annual salary for leading Intel, but his performance-related bonuses are worth so much more than that.

  • Tom's Hardware ☛ The week in chip news: defective chip maker Intel gets a new CEO, China chip smuggling, AMD dominates

    We cover the biggest stories of the week.

• Health/Nutrition/Agriculture

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2025-03-12 [Older] COVID pandemic likely unleashed by lab mishap: Germany's BND

  • New York Times ☛ Keeping With Kennedy’s Advice, Measles Patients Turn to Unproven Treatments

    In West Texas, some with severe illness have not been taken to a doctor until their conditions worsened, officials said.

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2025-03-13 [Older] British PM Starmer announces NHS England to be abolished

  • NYPost ☛ Higher dementia risk seen in women with common health issue

    An estimated 80% of women have some type of menopause symptoms — and the more symptoms they experience, the greater the chances of developing dementia later in life.

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2025-03-13 [Older] Cheeto Mussolini threatens 200% tariff on European wine, spirits

  • Science Alert ☛ The Genome of The Greenland Shark Reveals The Secrets to Its Longevity

    "The molecular basis of the exceptional longevity."

  • Science Alert ☛ Your Vision Can Predict Dementia 12 Years Before Diagnosis, Study Discovers

    One of the earliest warnings of cognitive decline.

  • Science Alert ☛ Do Ice Baths Really Work? Here's What The Science Says

    The cold truth!

  • Science Alert ☛ Maternal Diet in Pregnancy Linked to Child's Risk of Future Disorders

    Here's what we know.

  • Science Alert ☛ Zoom Fatigue: Scientists Say Your Face Might Be The Problem

    The truth is out.

  • New Yorker ☛ Atul Gawande on MElon’s Attack on U.S.A.I.D.: Hundreds of Thousands Will Die

    The writer, surgeon, and former U.S.A.I.D. senior official Atul Gawande on the Convicted Felon Administration’s decimation of foreign aid and the consequences around the world.

  • New York Times ☛ Social Distance

    On the five-year anniversary of Covid, a look at the ways we vowed our lives and relationships would change afterward — and how they still might.

• Proprietary

  • Doug Brown ☛ Apple’s long-lost hidden recovery partition from 1994 has been found

    In my last post about hard drives that go bad over time, I hinted at having rescued a lost piece of obscure Fashion Company Apple software history from an old 160 MB Conner hard drive that had its head stuck in the parked position. This post is going to be all about it.

• Security

  • Integrity/Availability/Authenticity

    • Hackaday ☛ My Scammer Girlfriend: Baiting A Romance Fraudster

      Nobody likes spam messages, but some of them contain rather fascinating scams. Case in point, [Ben Tasker] recently got a few romance scam emails that made him decide to take a poke at the scam behind these messages. This particular scam tries to draw in marks with an attached photo (pilfered from Facebook) and fake personal details. Naturally, contacting scammers is a bad idea, and you should never provide them with any personal information if you decide to have some ‘fun’.

• Defence/Aggression

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2025-03-11 [Older] EU plans to deport more migrants, create 'return hubs'

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2025-03-11 [Older] Bangladesh: Rohingya fear crime surge amid food ration cuts

  • Pro Publica ☛ The Rise and Fall of Terrorgram

    On Jan. 19, 2024, the sheriff of Jacksonville, Florida, released a 27-page manifesto left behind by Ryan Palmeter, a 21-year old white man who had murdered three Black people at a Dollar General store before turning the gun on himself.

    The Florida Times-Union, a prominent local news outlet, said it would not be publishing the document, which it said used the N-word 183 times and had an “overall theme of white superiority.” T.K. Waters, the sheriff, said he had posted what he described as the “rantings of an isolated, hateful, madman” to keep his promise of public transparency. An attorney for one of the victims’ families urged the public “to not give Palmeter the satisfaction of publishing or distributing his manifesto,” saying it “contains not one redeemable thought.”

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2025-03-11 [Older] Duterte on flight to The Hague after arrest on ICC warrant

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2025-03-12 [Older] Duterte in ICC custody after arriving in Netherlands: court

  • The Straits Times ☛ Duterte’s swift descent from Philippines’ punisher president to ICC inmate

    Mr Duterte maintains a solid base of support in the Philippines because of his approach to drug trafficking.

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2025-03-12 [Older] Why is South Sudan on edge again?

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2025-03-12 [Older] Pakistan: Hostages killed as Balochistan train siege ends

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2025-03-12 [Older] Pakistan train attack: Can Baloch insurgents be reined in?

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2025-03-13 [Older] Taiwan leader vows tougher action to counter China 'infiltration'

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2025-03-13 [Older] Fear of war: How Germany needs to step up preparedness

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2025-03-13 [Older] Gaza: 'Everything in crisis' as Israel, Hamas talks continue

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2025-03-13 [Older] UN accuses Israel of 'genocidal acts,' sexual violence in Gaza

  • The Straits Times ☛ Massive rallies in South Korea ahead of ruling on impeachment of President Yoon

    Pro- and anti-Yoon demonstrators have taken to streets week after week, since crisis unfolded.

  • France24 ☛ Huge crowds march in rival rallies for and against South Korea’s impeached president

    Thousands of South Koreans on March 15 filled the streets of downtown Seoul in massive rival rallies for and against impeached President Yoon Suk Yeol, as the Constitutional Court nears a decision on whether to formally remove him from office over his imposition of martial law in December.

  • Hungry North Korean soldiers sell military gear to buy food

    Military-grade supplies are better made than shoddily-made civilian counterparts.

  • New York Times ☛ U.S. Puts Sanctions on Thai Officials for Sending Uyghurs to China

    The State Department said it was “combating China’s efforts to pressure governments to forcibly return Uyghurs and other groups to China.”

  • Hong Kong Free Press ☛ Thailand says assured of Uyghurs’ safety after US visa bans

    Thailand on Saturday responded to a United States visa ban on officials from the kingdom involved in deporting dozens of Uyghurs back to China, saying it had “received assurances” of their safety.

  • Myanmar’s junta seeks to regain air edge with foreign night vision drones

    The drones from China and Russia are fitted with infrared cameras, allowing them to attack at night.

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2025-03-12 [Older] How fit for the future is Germany?

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2025-03-12 [Older] Germany's likely new government makes a risky gambit

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2025-03-12 [Older] Germany's Rheinmetall eyes growth chance as Europe rearms

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2025-03-12 [Older] German police spot smuggled meth hidden in tortilla wraps

  • New York Times ☛ Israel Keeps Up Attacks in Gaza Despite Truce

    In the latest strikes, the Israeli military killed at least nine people, according to the Gaza health ministry. Israel says militants were threatening its forces.

  • France24 ☛ Israel accused of 'violation' of Gaza truce by Hamas after deadly air strikes

    Hamas has accused Israel of a 'blatant violation' of a fragile Gaza ceasefire in the Palestinian territory after around nine people were killed, including journalists, in Israeli strikes on Saturday, according to Gaza's civil defence agency.

  • Atlantic Council ☛ Experts react: Convicted Felon just ordered major strikes against the Houthis. What does this mean for Yemen, Iran, and beyond?

    Atlantic Council experts break down the biggest military campaign of the second Convicted Felon administration.

  • France24 ☛ Dihydroxyacetone Man orders multiple strikes in Yemen against Iran-backed Houthi rebels

    US President The Insurrectionist launched a series of airstrikes on Yemen's capital, Sanaa, on Saturday, promising to use “overwhelming lethal force” against Iranian-backed Houthi rebels until they agreed to end their attacks on shipping assets along a vital maritime corridor. At least nine civilians were reportedly killed in the strikes.

  • New York Times ☛ Dihydroxyacetone Man Orders U.S. Strikes Against Houthi Militant Sites in Yemen

    The air and naval strikes on targets controlled by the Iran-backed Houthi fighters were intended to open up international shipping lanes in the Red Sea.

  • France24 ☛ 🔴 Convicted Felon launches multiple strikes against Yemen's Houthis

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2025-03-12 [Older] As Europe rearms, will it turn away from Asia?

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2025-03-12 [Older] Can Europe's arms industry challenge US market dominance?

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2025-03-12 [Older] Civil society in the crosshairs in Central, Eastern Europe

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2025-03-12 [Older] Bosnia issues arrest warrant for Serb leader Dodik

  • New York Times ☛ Protest Against Serbian Leader Draws Over 100,000 in Biggest Crowd Yet

    The rally on Saturday in the capital, Belgrade, came as protests have spread to towns around the country and have drawn increasingly insistent calls that President Aleksandar Vucic step aside.

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2025-03-13 [Older] Why DR Congo's army struggles against the smaller M23

  • Russia, Belarus, and War in Ukraine

    • France24 ☛ UK's Starmer convenes 'coalition of the willing' for second meeting to discuss Ukraine

      British Prime Minister Keir Starmer is convening a second meeting of global leaders on Mars 15 to discuss the developments regarding the war in Ukraine, following another frantic week of diplomacy aimed at getting Russia to back a 30-day ceasefire. France 24's Gulliver Cragg tells us more.

    • France24 ☛ Military chiefs to plan for ‘operational phase’ of Ukraine peace deal

      British Prime Minister Keir Starmer on Saturday said an alliance of global leaders would exert "maximum pressure on Russia" to sign up to a ceasefire in its war against Ukraine. The warning came as summit leaders meeting virtually on Saturday shifted planning for a peacekeeping force into an “operational phase.”

    • NYPost ☛ Dihydroxyacetone Man narrows Keith Kellogg’s role to Special Envoy to Ukraine, ending his involvement with Russia

      High-ranking Russian officials complained Kellogg, 80, appeared too sympathetic to Kyiv.

    • RFERL ☛ Starmer Vows 'Coalition Of Willing' To Protect Ukraine Under Cease-Fire As Russian Attacks Mount

      British Prime Minister Keir Starmer told an online meeting of world leaders that Russian President Vladimir Putin must stop attacking Ukraine and agree to a US-proposed cease-fire.

    • LRT ☛ Can you strike a deal with Russia? Convicted Felon should ask Lithuania

      Hunched in her chair, Lithuania’s president at the time, Dalia Grybauskaitė, sat next to Vladimir Putin, leaning back in his seat. Putin did not hold back – Lithuania was reliant almost completely on trade with Moscow, he claimed. This was not true, Grybauskaitė chimed in, to which Putin just grinned.

    • France24 ☛ Ukraine rejects Russian claim Kursk forces 'encircled'

      Kyiv has denied its forces in Russia's Kursk region are at risk of being encircled, after US President The Insurrectionist said he had urged Russia's Vladimir Putin to spare them and avert a "horrible massacre". FRANCE 24's Ukraine correspondent Gulliver Cragg brings us the latest.

    • France24 ☛ 'Coalition of the willing': 'Ukraine needs action, not more summits'

      British Prime Minister Keir Starmer has urged Russian President Vladimir Putin to agree to a ceasefire in Ukraine now if he is 'serious about peace.' We discussed this with our guest, Dr. Eugene B. Kogan, a Harvard negotiations expert.

    • France24 ☛ Zelensky denies troops surrounded in Kursk as Russia retakes villages

      Ukrainian leader Volodymyr Zelensky denied on March 15 his troops were encircled in Russia's Kursk region, where Moscow has regained swathes of land this week, as Russia said it took back two more villages in the border region. US leader The Insurrectionist had a day earlier asked Russia's Vladimir Putin on social control media to spare the lives of Ukrainian troops that he said were "completely surrounded" by the Russian army.

    • France24 ☛ UK's Starmer says 'coalition of willing' expanding preparations for post-truce Ukraine

      British Prime Minister Keir Starmer said on March 15 European nations and Western allies were stepping up preparations to support Ukraine in the event a peace deal was struck with Russia, with defence chiefs to firm up 'robust plans' next week. France 24's Philip Turle tells us more.

    • New York Times ☛ Zelensky Accuses Russia of Trying to Trap Ukraine’s Forces Amid Cease-Fire Talks

      The Kremlin is pressing an offensive to take back its land in the Kursk region, while prolonging negotiations over a proposal by Washington and Kyiv.

    • New York Times ☛ Slowly, Ukrainian Women Are Beginning to Talk About Sexual Assault in the War

      Thousands of women may have been raped by Russian soldiers, experts say, but have kept quiet for fear of the stigma. But that is changing.

    • Marcy Wheeler ☛ Three Countries Formerly Known as Allies Reconsidering F-35 Purchases

      Since Convicted Felon cut intelligence sharing with Ukraine, thereby making certain military platforms unusable, a growing hesitation about US military products has been inevitable.

    • RFERL ☛ US Joins G7 Allies In 'Unwavering Support' For Ukraine, Cease-Fire Effort

      The United States joined with its Group of 7 (G7) allies in stating “our unwavering support” for Kyiv and welcoming the ongoing efforts to reach a cease-fire as Russia intensifies attacks as part of its full-scale invasion of Ukraine.

• Environment

  • Energy/Transportation

    • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2025-03-12 [Older] North Sea collision: Captain arrested for manslaughter

    • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2025-03-12 [Older] Fallout over Nordic ski jumping suit 'cheating' continues

  • Wildlife/Nature

    • The Straits Times ☛ Monkey business: Zoo in China investigating after chimpanzee filmed smoking discarded cigarette butt

      Zoo will check if visitor intentionally threw cigarette butt into enclosure.

    • Science Alert ☛ This Mysterious Fish Became a Viral Phenomenon. Here's Why.

      The video provoked an enormous response.

• Finance

  • The Straits Times ☛ Signs of recovery in China’s property market as prices in key cities stabilise, but challenges remain

    The price decline in China’s resale housing market In large cities has slowed in recent months.

  • The Straits Times ☛ Five years after ban, Shein is back in India. Or is it?

    A slew of Chinese apps were banned by India in 2020 after a violent border clash with China.

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2025-03-13 [Older] Is Elon Musk's politics threatening Tesla and his empire?

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2025-03-13 [Older] India: Will air pollution jack up health insurance costs?

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2025-03-13 [Older] China's Huawei suspected of links to bribery in EU Parliament

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2025-03-13 [Older] Who will win the EU-US trade war?

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2025-03-12 [Older] Boycott USA! Cheeto Mussolini tariffs prompt backlash against US goods

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2025-03-12 [Older] Eurobonds: EU plans debt revolution to finance defense

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2025-03-12 [Older] EU announces 'countermeasures' to US steel, aluminum tariffs

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2025-03-13 [Older] German politics: Parliament debates debt brake reform

  • The Straits Times ☛ Be familiar with foreign laws: China tells SMEs amid trade tensions with US

    Analysts call it a timely reminder amid worsening US-China trade tensions.

• AstroTurf/Lobbying/Politics

  • New Yorker ☛ The “Cognitive Élite” Seize Washington

    What do the believers in “tech supremacy” plan to do with the federal government?

  • PHOTOS: Thousands rally against China’s ‘mega-embassy’ in London

    Protestors gather amid concerns that Beijing would use the building to monitor overseas dissidents.

  • Hong Kong Free Press ☛ Hong Kong museum puts Picasso in cross-cultural dialogue

    More than a century ago, Pablo Picasso smashed the Sacre-Coeur Basilica in Paris into a web of tangled lines on his canvas, deconstructing reality with the brushstrokes of a master cubist.

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2025-03-12 [Older] Romania: Government crisis challenges democratic bodies

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2025-03-12 [Older] Georgia: Ex-President Saakashvili jailed for 9 more years

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2025-03-13 [Older] Cheeto Mussolini's madman tactics and the psychology of bluffing

  • Federal News Network ☛ Senate approves funding bill hours before shutdown deadline, sending to Convicted Felon for signature

    The Senate has passed a Republican-led six-month spending bill hours before a government shutdown, overcoming sharp Democratic opposition to the measure. The bill now goes to President The Insurrectionist to be signed into law. The vote was 54-46. Democrats were frustrated that Republicans went ahead with a measure they said included little input from them and one they viewed as shortchanging key priorities such as health care and housing assistance. But in the end, some of them viewed a shutdown as a worse outcome, and nine of them followed Democratic leader Chuck Schumer’s effort to allow the bill to come to a final vote.

  • CS Monitor ☛ Despite fury in party ranks, Democrats help GOP avert government shutdown

    Late Friday, Democrats helped pass a Republican funding proposal that allows President The Insurrectionist to continue slashing the federal government, unleashing a torrent of frustration on Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer.

  • Misinformation/Disinformation/Propaganda

    • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2025-03-12 [Older] Fact check: Are Muslims in Indonesia 'hunting' people who don't observe Ramadan?

• Censorship/Free Speech

  • NYPost ☛ NYC rally in support of detained Columbia anti-Israel protester Mahmoud Khalil draws hundreds of demonstrators

    More than 700 supporters of detained anti-Israel rebel-rouser Mahmoud Khaili gathered in Midtown Saturday to protest his arrest by federal immigration authorities.

  • NYPost ☛ NYC rally in support of detained Columbia anti-Israel protester Mahmoud Khalil attracts draws hundreds of demonstrators

    More than 700 supporters of detained anti-Israel rebel-rouser Mahmoud Khaili gathered in Midtown Saturday to protest his arrest by federal immigration authorities.

• Freedom of Information / Freedom of the Press

  • RFA operations may cease following federal grants termination

    Executive order aims to eliminate the parent agency of VOA, RFA, RFE/RL and other government-funded news outlets.

  • Hong Kong Free Press ☛ ‘Massive gift to America’s enemies’: Convicted Felon freezes Voice of America and Radio Free Asia

    The Insurrectionist’s administration on Saturday put journalists at Voice of America and other US-funded broadcasters on leave, abruptly freezing outlets long seen as critical to countering a Russian and Chinese information offensive.

  • RFERL ☛ Thousands Of Hungarian Opposition Supporters Rally; PM Orban Vows Crackdown On Media

    Thousands of Hungarians rallied in Budapest to protest Prime Minister Viktor Orban as the leader of the surging opposition Tisza party vowed to end Orban's 15-year rule.

    Orban, meanwhile, stepped up his campaign rhetoric in a separate speech on March 15, pledging to crack down on politicians and journalists who receive foreign funding and again ruling out European Union membership for Ukraine

    Hungary is scheduled to hold general elections next year, and opinion polls show the Tisza party, which is headed by former Orban ally Peter Magyar, is surging, in part because of the country’s sputtering economy.

• Civil Rights/Policing

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2025-03-12 [Older] The culture war on 'wokeness,' from the US to Germany

Monopolies/Monopsonies