Tuesday, March 4
At A Glance
The origins of "gung-ho."
Different types of clouds and what they mean.
The man who fixed Social Security when it went broke.
Drone captures narwals using their tusks to prey and play.
Ranking every Oscar-nominated performance of a US president.
Meet Chowder, the skateboarding bulldog. (w/video)
Giant goldfish found in Pennsylvania waterway.
Honda to unveil a Pokémon motorcycle.
Clickbait: Fans of a $38 yogurt say it's making them hotter.
Robert Reich
Democrats! Wake the hell up!
Boycott Trump’s address to Congress tonight. If you must go, make good trouble.
Aassmaa Akhannouch - Artist
Aassmaa Akhannouch (born 1973) is a Moroccan artist and photographer. She is the winner in 2021 of the 26th Prix HSBC pour la photographie [fr].
Born in 1973 in Meknes, Morocco, Aassmaa Akhannouch earned an engineering degree in France and an MBA in the United States, then worked in marketing for fifteen years. In 2013, to improve her knowledge of digital photography, she took a course at the Photo Academy Casablanca, Morocco, and decided to devote herself entirely to a career in photography in 2016. She works in the cyanotype process, an early monochrome photographic printing technique, to which she applies a variety of idiosyncratic processes such as tea baths and watercolor highlights.
She explains her approach to photography:
"My photography is an exploration of memory. Through my images and careful attention to the printing process, I tell stories, fragments of memories open to the viewer's associations and emotions. Rather than an intention to document the past, I attempt to reveal the emotions that dwell in me. What I try to extract from the past is an impression, intimate, lyrical and timeless."
In The NEWS
Sports, Entertainment, & Culture
> Charli XCX wins top prizes of artist and album of the year at 2025 Brit Awards, the UK's highest-profile music awards show (More)
> The 2025 Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race kicks off from Fairbanks, Alaska (More) | MLB commissioner to review bid by Pete Rose's family to have Rose posthumously removed from baseball's ineligible list (More)
> David Johansen, frontman of the New York Dolls and actor, dies at age 75 of cancer (More) | Angie Stone, Grammy-nominated R&B singer, dies in a car crash at age 63 (More)
Science & Technology
> White House eliminates 18F program, which provided federal engineers and IT staff for agencies requiring digital services (More)
> Firefly Aerospace becomes the first private company to land a spacecraft on the moon without crashing or falling over; Blue Ghost rover will collect rock samples, measure heat flow on the moon, and more (More)
> New study dates the Los Chocoyos supereruption, which deposited ash across 2.3 million square miles, to 79,500 years ago; ice cores suggest global climate recovered within decades (More)
Business & Markets
> US stock markets jump Friday (S&P 500 +1.6%, Dow +1.4%, Nasdaq +1.6%); S&P ends February down 1.4% overall (More)
> US government to launch reserve cryptocurrency fund, calling out three—Cardano (ADA), Ripple (XRP), and Solana (SOL); all three see double-digit gains (More) | Everything you need to know about cryptocurrency and how it works (1440 Topics)
> President Donald Trump orders Commerce Department to probe international lumber markets, says he is considering 25% global tariff on lumber and wood imports (More)
Politics & World Affairs
> Israel blocks humanitarian aid from entering Gaza, calls on Hamas to accept US-brokered extension of ceasefire; first phase of plan ended Saturday (More)
> Defense Department deploys roughly 3,000 additional troops, fleet of armored vehicles to US-Mexico border to support migration enforcement measures (More) | Federal judge blocks Trump administration's firing of head of independent watchdog agency; case expected to head to Supreme Court (More)
> Kurdish militants declare a ceasefire following four decades of fighting between the Kurdistan Workers' Party and Turkish government (More)
SOURCE: 1440 NEWS
Traveling
I was born in Raleigh, North Carolina, raised in Alexandria, Virginia and attended high school in Cairo, Egypt from 1962-1966.
After high school, attended college in Elon College, North Carolina, spent two years in the US Navy in Norfolk, Virginia before finishing college. Remained in Burlington, North Carolina until 1989 when I relocated to Greeneville, Tennessee in 1990 where I remained until now, moving from Greeneville to Morristown to Chattanooga, and finally settling in Jefferson City.
During 1962-1966, since Americans could not work during the summer months, a group of us would travel through Europe for a month to six weeks. The guide that we followed was published by SAS Airlines and was entitled, ERUPOE ON $3 a DAY... that price increased to $5 a day during those latter two years.
My relocation from North Carolina to Tennessee was positive for my career but resulted in a divorce. Five years later, I remarried and my second wife and I traveled multiple places outside of Tennessee, some of which included:
- East coast
- West coast
- Gulf coast
- Canada
- Alaska
- Hawaii
- Mexico
- Caribbean
- Mediterranean
- Europe
When COVID ravaged the world and the USA, my second wife and I stopped our traveling and had just as much enjoyment staying at home as we did traveling.
We saw a lot of places, some iconic, others not, but they are sitting in storage somewhere inside our memories.... if we ever need them.
Bill Gates & Four Issues
Bill Gates has laid out what he believes should be on the agenda for the next generation to address.
Having been born in the 1950s, the Microsoft cofounder said one of his greatest fears growing up was the threat of nuclear war.
And while this issue is far from resolved, the billionaire philanthropist also highlighted a handful of further issues that people his children’s age will need to address.
Speaking to Patrick Collison of the Computer History Museum last week, Gates explained: “A nuclear war or a super bad bioterrorism event, or not shaping AI properly or not bringing society together a little bit around the polarization. Those four things, yes, the younger generation has to be very afraid of those things.”
Gates, 69, then retrospectively added climate change to the to-do list for millennials and Gen Z to rectify.
But even with all of these major concerns on the horizon, the man worth $168 billion added that the headlines of life in the 2020s and beyond are only looking more positive. READ MORE...
Monday, March 3
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