16 Dec 24 Monday Briefing

RIP Ustad Zakir Hussain

News Roundup

The legendary Zakir Hussain passes, South Korea’s parliament impeached President Yoon over his martial law gambit, more upheaval in Syria, some states in India are advocating MORE children (yes, really), and another CEO faces well-deserved scrutiny.

Watch/Scroll

SEA-Collections Exhibition – Interpreting Shared Histories through Southeast Asian Maritime Collections is an excellent website available in English, Bahasa Melayu, Bahasa Indonesia, Thai and Tagalog that showcases collections of maritime artefacts in my home region.

Scroll through a tl;dr of a 148-page complaint from a 16 year-old boy suing Kraft Heinz and other food giants for poisoning him and other children with processed food. (h/t Spouse™)

Move over Moo Deng, there’s a new viral baby animal in town, JunJun.

Read

Not only is Tackett’s masterpiece The Destruction of the Medieval Chinese Aristocracy winner of the 2015 AHA James Henry Breasted Prize for the Best History Book in any field prior to CE 1000, it is a nerd’s digital humanities dream, and provides ample warning of what happens to elites in the face of societal upheaval – typically, destruction. Over to you, CEO class.

Ponder

In this week’s ponder, I reflect on Jonathan Nunn’s ode to pie and mash, and how sometimes things have a way of eating themselves up, pun intended.