North Korea On Sept. 25, Ri Yong-ho, the North Korean foreign minister, accused Donald Trump of declaring war on the country. This accusation was in response to a tweet Trump wrote which made a snide comment about the President of North Korea, Kim Jong-un, in which Trump called Jong-un “Little Rocket Man.” Yong-Ho also asserted…
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Mexico Mexican authorities apprehended drug kingpin Damaso “The Graduate” Lopez the morning of May 2, 2017 in Mexico City. Lopez has been linked to numerous attacks throughout the country as well as affiliation with former cartel leader Chapo Guzman, most notably assisting in Guzman’s escape from prison. France French presidential candidate Marine Le Pen has…
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Chechnya British intelligence has found that Chechnyan leader Ramzan Kadyrov and a number of other officials have threatened to eliminate the gay population of Chechnya by the start of Ramadan, May 26. This follows the internment of over 100 gay men in torture camps, a number which British officials suspect will rise within the coming…
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Compiled by Eleanor Jersild Germany Bjoern Hoecke, a prominent member of the nationalist Alternative for Germany right-wing political party, wants to put an end to the country’s tradition of acknowledging its Nazi past. Hoecke claims that the memorial in Berlin in remembrance of the millions of Jews killed in the Holocaust is a “monument…
Graves from Göttingen: Carl Friedrich Gauss
When I arrived in Göttingen, I didn’t know who Carl Friedrich Gauss was. It was one of my classmates who told me about Gauss, and was deeply shocked that I was not familiar with him. The day I left Göttingen, on my way across town to catch my train, I took a detour to find…
Graves from Göttingen: Max Planck
You should know the name of Max Planck. Not only does he have a German research institution chain named after him, he also completely revolutionized physics around the turn of the last century. His work with thermodynamic problems, such as blackbody radiation and a phenomenon known as the ultraviolet catastrophe, led him to develop his…
Graves from Göttingen: The Summer of my German study
This past summer, I studied for two months in a tiny university town called Göttingen, in Lower Saxony, Germany. I was there to learn beginning German and, with lots of study, managed to accomplish that. However, living alone in a different culture was the experience that I think was the most valuable and life changing.…