Fungi that love white noise
Here something happens that no one expected. It was found that when white noise was played on microscopic fungi living in soil, they multiplied seven times faster.
Kind of like the static hiss that old radios make between stations.
Flinders University researchers… pic.twitter.com/6ApqYMoIVO
— Gandarb (@Microinteracti1) March 13, 2026
Ancient Engines: Sentinel Briefing NASA Dates 3I/ATLAS Before the Sun Existed (Chuck L)
Climate/Environment
breaking news!
Code UFB!!!
Total tower precipitable water data for February 2026 has been released by ECMWF, once again setting a new record for the 36-month rolling average.
The Climate Eight Ball says, “More car soup!” pic.twitter.com/ZEE22ICsZv
— Professor Elliot Jacobson (@EliotJacobson) March 10, 2026
A chilling preview: Extreme heat now affects one in three people worldwide, Guardian study finds
Drought and growth collide, creating water crisis for cities Earth.com
Air pollution is bad for brain health – existing standards may not meet University of Birmingham
Two studies suggest centuries of net negative emissions are needed to ensure a secure climate future
Melting ice floods the ocean with light, causing the face of the Arctic’s ‘keystone’ fish to collapse – Oceanographic Magazine
Super El Niño brings severe drought to ASEAN, could lead to record heat in 2027 Asia News. Nothing has been distributed recently. We are experiencing the two hottest months of the year here. I haven’t run it with air yet. It was raining lightly for two days in a row, which was hard to believe that it was just before the rainy season.
China?
China’s consumption has been at its worst since the start of this year outside of the coronavirus pandemic Bloomberg
China beats US and Japan in carbon fiber arms race, establishes world’s first T1200 factory South China Morning Post
🚨🇺🇸🇨🇳🇮🇷 President Trump panic: China can stop US attack on Iran at any time
With Washington’s entire arsenal running on Chinese minerals, President Trump’s Iran camp is already in disarray, giving Beijing direct influence over determining how long airstrikes actually last, SCMP officials warn… pic.twitter.com/HrvGqh4Wbj
— NewRulesGeopolitics (@NewRulesGeo) March 13, 2026
✨🇨🇳 A Chinese company has released a military inflatable model. Not only does it look real, it’s also movable. pic.twitter.com/UMJoTKqc8p
— 🇨🇳XuZhenqingXu Qiqing (@XueJia24682) March 12, 2026
Southeast Asia
Southeast Asia closes offices, restricts travel as oil crisis worsens Al Jazeera
Africa
Tigray residents flee as fragile peace collapses under pressure
Sudan shows how the nature of war is changing – and it’s a death trap for civilians Sky
25 killed in militia attack in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo Anadolu Agency
south of the border
Drug trafficker Noboa kneels before President Trump and attacks Cuban rebels (Michael T.)
🇵🇦🇨🇳🚨Breaking News: Panama has captured a Chinese port under pressure from the US. Now Beijing has turned off the money faucet.
CK Hutchison’s 1997 concession? Unconstitutional ruling. Port occupied. Handed over to Maersk and MSC.
America rejoiced. Panama celebrated. China has calculated.
The calculation looks like this:… pic.twitter.com/lemkrlEwyI
— New Directions Africa (@Its_ereko) March 13, 2026
Ecuador’s President Trump supports Al Jazeera and prepares to attack ‘criminal economy’
discord in europe
Debt-ridden Europe has few options to cushion energy shock Reuters
Demonstration against conscription: Stuttgart student fined 20 euros – where are the roots of the school? Nackdenkseiten by machine translation. Michael T.: NATO wants war with Russia because NATO kills for freedom and democracy!
old blighty
Financier warns of £1.3bn hole in UK’s collapsed ‘shadow bank’ Telegraph
London homes ‘overheating due to climate change’ BBC
Andrew and Peter Mandelson are photographed in bathrobes with Jeffrey Epstein Guardian (Kevin W)
israel vs resistance
🚨BREAKING NEWS: Israel’s Military Advocate General recognizes complete impunity for torture and sexual violence in Israeli prisons, closing the Sude Teiman case against soldiers accused of rape of Palestinian detainees (a crime captured on video before the world). pic.twitter.com/LOfhAvAkuC
— Rami Abdul | और देखें March 12, 2026
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Israel is preparing genocide in southern Lebanon
The survival of colonial nation-states depends on continued ethnic cleansing and mass death.
You decide: humanity or Zionism https://t.co/ONCsdi6qJ3
— Max Blumenthal (@MaxBlumenthal) March 13, 2026
‘Perfect storm’: Lebanon crisis deepens as civilians bear the brunt of the UN
Israel plans to spray herbicides on Syrian farmers’ fields France 24
Attacks on Israeli settlers increase in West Bank as Iran war intensifies 4 News
Yemen’s Houthi leader expresses support for Iran against US and Israeli attack on Anadolu
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⭕️ Oman claims war against Iran is aimed at preventing Palestinian statehood and reorganizing the Middle East
➤ Foreign Minister Saeed Badr al-Busaidi said that the “real purpose of the war” was “to weaken Iran, restructure the region, and advance the normalization agenda,” which “includes efforts to prevent Iran from going to war.” https://t.co/ZIyxcHGQ9F pic.twitter.com/O9XnjuPlEo
— Drop Site (@DropSiteNews) March 12, 2026
Middle East’s ‘saltwater kingdom’ is at risk as vulnerable desalination and oil facilities are targeted, experts warn Euronews
War could bring Middle East water crisis to breaking point – Turkiye Today
Shut-in turns Gulf crisis into severe supply shock Energy Intel
Joe, there’s another element to this that no one is discussing. Israeli forces were to assist the Marines with security. On the contrary, they harassed him day and night. They harassed him so much that he was promoted to commander level. Despite repeated conversations with… https://t.co/gMbv4Prfv8
—ColonelTowner-Watkins (@ColonelTowner) March 11, 2026
We’re looking for the person who made this clip 😄 pic.twitter.com/1a28DVMBCy
— Iran 24 (@IRAN_HD24) March 12, 2026
Afghanistan/Pakistan
Afghanistan, Kabul, Kandahar al-Jazeera blames Pakistan for airstrikes on homes
A new war that’s not so cold war
Ukraine’s attack on Turkish Stream terrorizes the world market Vzglyad through machine translation (guurst)
Can Ukraine’s war-ravaged wheat fields be cleaned up? BBC
The Baltic states are more important to Ukraine than many realize Andrew Korybko
imperial collapse watch
Hedges Report: Trillion Dollar War Machine Consortium News (Robin K)
AI for War: The conflict between the Department of Defense and AI companies sheds light on new military technology policy Nachdenkseiten through machine translation.
Drones are Weapons of the Weak #3: Americas Ian Welsh (Michael T.)
Trump 2.0
Judge blocks Justice Department criminal investigation into Federal Reserve Bank, slams it as political NPR (Kevin W)
Trump threatens EU, China with new tariffs Telegraph
Trump: ‘Iran war will end when I ‘feel it in my bones” Politico (Kevin W)
The Iran War: Trump’s Defining Legacy / Robert Burns and Lt. Col. Daniel Davis YouTube. I’m not a Barnes fan, but this is great.
immigration
“I’m 5 years old. I want to go home”: Children’s letters reveal nine months of torture in Texas immigration detention center WSWS (Michael T.)
Lafaire Epstein
1/ Paris. June 20, 2019.
Jeffrey Epstein, a registered sex offender, writes memos about Bill Gates’ money.
He wants three years’ worth of tax returns. current will. All trust documents. Between $20 billion and $50 billion was transferred through the foundation. Under new management. His own.
The memo is… pic.twitter.com/fw1LcoQac3
— Sayer Jigmi (@sayerjigmi) March 13, 2026
economy
Iran war: energy shock triggers global fertilizer crisis WION
Fuel shortages lead to queues and protests around the world Al Jazeera
Faced with soaring electricity costs, Americans are quietly installing more DIY solar power systems. And they don’t tell the power company CNN (Kevin W)
Federal Reserve Board to ease capital requirements for large U.S. banks Federal Reserve Board
antitrust law
Slack exchange between LIVE NATION employees revealed fans bragging about paying exorbitant fees: “These people are really stupid” Metal injection
A.I.
🚨 Do you understand what’s happening on Amazon right now?
Kiro, the company’s AI coding agent, reportedly “determined” that the fastest way to fix the configuration error was to remove the entire production environment. Gone. 6 hour power outage. 6.3 million orders were lost.
Amazon’s SVP calls thousands of people… https://t.co/1p9QeSm4us
— Tuki (@TukiFromKL) March 12, 2026
A first look at the U.S. military’s Project Maven BitChute AI system (Kevin W)
Even Silicon Valley says AI is an Atlantic bubble.
class war
Advocates demand answers as state prisons face post-mortem scrutiny THE CITY
Antidote (via):
And bonus (Gust):
White cherry tree from Japan 🇯🇵 pic.twitter.com/tmw0LnqAHi
— Amazing things in the world (@hana_b30) March 13, 2026
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