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Buddha Buzz Weekly: Unearthing and Rebuilding

India’s prime minister spurs the excavation of a Buddhist site, a Michigan meditation center rebuilds after a fire, and two reporters jailed in Myanmar win a Pulitzer. Tricycle looks back at the events of this week in the Buddhist world.
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Foxconn Chairman Terry Gou To Run For President of Taiwan

hackingbear writes: Terry Gou, the billionaire founder of electronics giant Foxconn, is stepping down from his role as chairman to run for president of Taiwan. Taiwan broke off from mainland China in 1949 after a civil war and is officially known as Republic of China; its legal territory still covers all of China. He will stand in the primaries of the…

Male scientists are often cast as lone geniuses. Here’s what happened when a woman was.

The sexist backlash against the woman involved with the black hole image, explained. Just after the Event Horizon Telescope project announced last week that its astronomers had managed to capture the first-ever image of a black hole, MIT tweeted this image. Here’s the moment when the first black hole image was processed, from the eyes… Continue reading Male scientists are often cast as lone geniuses. Here’s what happened when a woman was.

ICE Raid on Samsung Repair Contractor Shows Big Tech’s Reliance on Exploitative Labor

CVE Technology Group, a Texas-based electronics repair company that was the target of the largest workplace raid by the US Immigrations and Customs Enforcement in a decade, is a major subcontractor of Samsung, the largest smartphone manufacturer in the world. The relationship between CVE and Samsung is so close that, for years, Samsung engineers were… Continue reading ICE Raid on Samsung Repair Contractor Shows Big Tech’s Reliance on Exploitative Labor