In The NEWS

Sports, Entertainment, & Culture
> Sundance Film Festival to relocate to Boulder, Colorado, beginning in 2027 after 40 years in Park City, Utah (More)

> Netflix's "Baby Reindeer" leads all series with eight nominations for the 2025 BAFTAs, or British Academy of Film and Television Arts (More)

> NCAA women's basketball tournament Sweet 16 round kicks off today; see full schedule and preview (More) | ... and see latest men's bracket (More)


Science & Technology
> Researchers discover new class of antibiotic that targets drug-resistant bacteria; molecule, known as lariocidin, interrupts bacteria protein production in a previously unknown way (More) | What are superbugs? (1440 Topics)

> OpenAI to limit rate of requests for its new image generator within ChatGPT, saying the viral uptake has overloaded servers (More)

> New findings link neural cell death with the growth of glioblastoma, one of the most lethal types of brain cancer; the five-year survival rate for the disease is under 10% (More)


Business & Markets
> US stock markets close lower (S&P 500 -0.3%, Dow -0.4%, Nasdaq -0.5%) as US tariffs on imported vehicles, effective April 2, weigh on stocks (More)

> French video game maker Ubisoft spins out new unit for popular game brands, including Assassin’s Creed; Chinese tech giant Tencent to take $1.25B stake (More) | GameStop shares slide 22% after retailer says it plans to raise $1.3B in debt to buy bitcoin (More)

> The US economy grew at an annual rate of 2.4% in Q4 of 2024, per revised data; full-year US gross domestic product—the total value of goods and services produced—grew at 2.8% rate (More)

Politics & World Affairs
> President Donald Trump withdraws Rep. Elise Stefanik's (R, NY-1) nomination as US ambassador to the UN, cites narrow Republican majority in the US House (More)

> Tufts University student, a Turkish national on a valid visa, detained and transferred to ICE center in Louisiana; Rümeysa Öztürk is the latest international student to be arrested amid a broader crackdown on pro-Palestinian sentiment in universities (More, w/video) | At least 300 students have had visas revoked, state secretary says (More)

> New York county clerk blocks Texas from filing legal action against New York doctor who sent abortion pills to a Texas woman; dispute likely to reach Supreme Court, highlights conflict between states with differing abortion laws (More)

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Illegal Immigrants

 If you are an illegal immigrant, then you don't belong in this country, no matter how bad you want to be here.  If you want to be in the USA that bad, then enter the legal way, no matter how long it might take you.

If you are an illegal immigrant and commit crimes in this country then, when you are caught, you should be charged with the crime and if convicted should go to jail or be deported.  I favor deportation because I do not want my tax dollars paying for you room and board.

If you are an illegal immigrant and you commit a violent crime, then you should be deported immediately and sent back to your country of origin and if they refuse, then you should be sent to a country that will accept you into their criminal justice system.

If you are an illegal immigrant and get married while in this country, then you should be allowed to remain as long as you remain married, but you should never be allowed to become a citizen.  If you get a divorce, your children can stay but you should be deported.

If you are an illegal immigrant who is pregnant and have your baby while in this country, the child should be allowed to stay if living with US citizens or if adopted by US citizens.

Of course, this is just my opinion, but I think a lot of people share my views

Somewhat Political

 

'World’s oldest pyramid' built 25,000 years ago was not made by humans, archaeologists claim

While Guinness World Records officially lists the Djoser Step pyramid in Egypt as the world’s oldest pyramid (around 2,630 BC), one paper published in October claimed a layer of the Gunung Padang pyramid in Indonesia was constructed as far back as 25,000 BC – though there has since been doubts as to whether the structure was ever man-made at all.

In research led by Danny Hilman Natawidjaja of the Indonesian Institute of Sciences, and published in the journal Archaeological Prospection, the academics write that “the pyramid’s core consists of meticulously sculpted massive andesite lava” and that the “oldest construction” element of the pyramid “likely originated as a natural lava hill before being sculpted and then architecturally enveloped”.

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Closer to War

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The case for expanding the definition of intelligence

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Robert Reich

Six small morsels of hope





Friends,

I’m not going to sugarcoat this. We’re in the worst national emergency of our lives.

It is not coming directly from threats we should be coping with — climate change destroying our planet, another pandemic threatening millions of lives, artificial intelligence taking over our jobs and brains, nuclear proliferation threatening the future of life on earth.

No. This national emergency is coming from a madman determined to turn America into a dictatorship and from his crazed assistants, including the richest person in the world.

What can I say that’s even remotely encouraging at this point?

Six things.

1. Voters are furious.

On Tuesday, Democrats flipped a Trump-voting seat in the Pennsylvania state Senate. James Malone defeated a well-funded and well-known Republican, Josh Parsons, in Lancaster County. Malone openly campaigned against Trump and Musk and made sure his opponent was tied to them.

This was a red Republican area that went +15 for Trump in 2024. The last time a Democrat won this seat was in 1889.

Other state and federal districts are showing the same trajectory — away from Trump and Musk.

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At A Glance

3/26/25) How old is your body? Science says to stand on one leg.

(3/19/25) The worst US cities for allergy sufferers.

(3/18/25) America's religious landscape in one chart.

(3/13/25) How to see the March lunar eclipse.

(3/5/25) Ranking US states with the lowest and highest tax rates.

(3/25/25) How often you should wash your feet.

(3/20/25) What happens if you shoot a gun in space?

(3/20/25) Does wearing a hat cause baldness?

(3/12/25) Why honey never expires—really.

(3/21/25) A bizarre minivan concept from 1992.

(3/6/25) A map that shows how big countries really are.

Clickbait: The (900-pound) dolphin that caught the fishermen.

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In The NEWS

Sports, Entertainment, & Culture
> NCAA men's basketball tournament Sweet 16 round kicks off today; see full schedule and preview (More) | Previously announced National Women's Soccer League franchise renamed Boston Legacy FC (More)

> YouTube tops Disney for first time on Nielsen's TV distributor rankings, which aggregates total TV viewership by media company (More)

> Lady Gaga announces her first arena concert tour since 2018 with dates revealed for North America and Europe (More) | Yolanda Saldívar, woman convicted of 1995 murder of music legend Selena Quintanilla-Pérez, up for parole for first time after serving 30 years in prison (More)


Science & Technology
> Mathematician Masaki Kashiwara awarded the 2025 Abel Prize—the field's equivalent to the Nobel Prize—for his work in bringing together multiple types of math to investigate the concept of symmetry (More)

> New study reveals how individual cells respond to stress, and the mechanisms that lead to either cell death or resumption of normal activity; findings may lead to new treatments for cancer and neurodegenerative diseases (More)

> Research finds obesity reduces the amount of neurotensin, a brain chemical involved in pleasure response, suggesting the body has a built-in mechanism to counter overeating (More)


Business & Markets
> US stock markets close lower (S&P 500 -1.1%, Dow -0.3%, Nasdaq -2.1%) (More) | President Donald Trump announces 25% tariffs on imported cars, up from current tariffs of 2.5%; nearly half of cars sold in the US are imported (More) | Wall Street posts record $47.5B in bonuses for 2024 (More)

> GameStop shares close up 12% after retailer says it will invest corporate cash into bitcoin; follows move by software company MicroStrategy, the largest corporate holder of bitcoin (More) | Everything you want to know about bitcoin (1440 Topics)

> Dollar Tree selling Family Dollar brand for roughly $1B to private equity firms Brigade Capital Management and Macellum Capital Management (More)


Politics & World Affairs
> Federal appeals court holds temporary block on use of Alien Enemies Act for deportations (More) | Senate confirms Marty Makary as head of the Food and Drug Administration by vote of 56-44 (More) | Vice President JD Vance, second lady Usha Vance to visit US Space Force outpost in Greenland tomorrow (More)

> Death toll rises to 24 from deadliest wildfires in southeastern South Korea; over 27,000 people evacuated and an ancient Buddhist temple among 200 buildings damaged or destroyed (More) | South Korea's government found responsible for decades of fraud and abuse in foreign adoption program, per report (More)

> Brazil Supreme Court panel orders former President Jair Bolsonaro to stand trial following an alleged attempt to stay in office after his 2022 election defeat (More)

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Becoming Older

I remember when my father was my age, I knew he was old, but I never saw him as really old until a couple of years later when he was diagnosed with a rare type of Leukemia.

While it did not bother him at first, he was eating oysters on the Outer Banks of North Carolina and had an adverse reaction and contracted an infection that caused him to lose his left leg just below the knee.

It was this second issue that caused him to age quicker than he normally would have aged.  He refused to use a wheelchair unless that was the only way to get somewhere like out to a football game.  Instead, he used a can, or a walker while wearing a prosthetic, but it was the prosthetic that forced him to become less and less mobile.

His first prosthetic worked perfectly but because he moved around so much, he wore that one out prematurely.  All future prosthetics never fit his leg as well, for some reason, and he became less and less active.

He died at 89 years of age but not because his Leukemia killed him but because all of his organs simply wore out at the same time.

Did the Leukemia or leg cause the wearing out to happen or was it going to happen that way, regardless?

No one knows for sure.

So, if I follow the pattern of my father, then I have 12 years left.  However, my mother lived to 96 and while I do not think I will live that long, there is a good possibility I will live somewhere in between the two.

Right now, I try not to think about that.  I try and think about what I am going to do today.  I don't really care about tomorrow unless I have to plan for a doctor's visit or a haircut or grocery shopping.  I have vacations already scheduled on my calendar, but I won't start thinking about them until a few days before.

I just see life as special and precious.

Somewhat Political

 

Physicists Bend Time Inside a Diamond, Creating a Brand-New Phase of Matter

Physicists at Washington University have forged ahead in the field of quantum mechanics by creating a new phase of matter known as “time crystals” and the even more advanced “time quasicrystals.”


These groundbreaking materials defy traditional physics by maintaining perpetual motion and could revolutionize quantum computing and precision timekeeping by providing a stable, energy-conserving method of measuring time and storing quantum information.

Time Crystals
Physicists at Washington University in St. Louis (WashU) have created a new kind of time crystal, a unique phase of matter that challenges conventional understanding of motion and time.

The research team includes Kater Murch, the Charles M. Hohenberg Professor of Physics, and Chong Zu, an assistant professor of physics, along with graduate students Guanghui He, Ruotian “Reginald” Gong, Changyu Yao, and Zhongyuan Liu. Additional collaborators include Bingtian Ye from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Norman Yao from Harvard University. Their findings were published on March 12 in Physical Review X, a leading journal in the field.

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VINCE

 

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Brookings Brief

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Robert Reich

Where the HELL are the Democrats?






Friends,

I’ve asked this question before. Now I’m SHOUTING it.

Where the HELL are the Democrats?

It should be the Democrats’ moment — the time when Democrats are everywhere, on everyone’s lips, in everyone’s eyes.

But Democrats are nowhere. AWOL. Almost invisible.

They’re squandering this opportunity.

Can you imagine a more important moment for Democrats to sound the alarm? At the request of a Republican president, the richest person in the world is taking a sledgehammer to Social Security, Medicaid, Veterans Affairs, the entire Department of Education, and much else that Americans need and want.

He’s doing all this so the president can give a huge tax cut to the wealthiest members of our society and the biggest corporations in America.

Worse, the president chose this man for this job because he sank a quarter of a billion dollars into getting the president elected. And this man, already one of the government’s biggest contractors, is salivating over the prospect of turning even more of government into his or other corporate hands.

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