Peter Gene Hernandez (born October 8, 1985), known professionally as Bruno Mars, is an American singer-songwriter, record producer and dancer.  Regarded as a pop icon, he is known for his three-octave tenor vocal range, live performances, retro showmanship, and musical versatility.  He is accompanied by his band, the Hooligans.  Raised in Honolulu, Mars gained recognition in Hawaii as a child for his impersonation of Elvis Presley, before moving to Los Angeles in 2003 to pursue a musical career.  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruno_Mars   

The lemon plum with the scientific name Prunus salicina is a rare variety of plums belonging to the Rosaceae family.  They were developed by a grower in Israel under the name of Lamoon plum.  It gets its name because of the color and shape, but mainly the unique lemon-like shape.  This particular variety of plum was then licensed to growers in Chile.  Since then there have been a few growers in the United States growing them as well.  Their season is fairly short and is available from late winter to early spring.  They can be found in the United States and Canada where they are imported from Chile.  Also, they can be found in the Middle East.  https://www.inthekitchenwithmatt.com/lemon-plum   

The Foucault pendulum which was displayed for many years in the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History was removed in late 1998 to make room for the Star-Spangled Banner Preservation Project and there are no current plans to reinstall it.  The Foucault Pendulum is named for the French physicist Jean Foucault (pronounced "Foo-koh), who first used it in 1851 to demonstrate the rotation of the earth.  It was the first satisfactory demonstration of the earth's rotation using laboratory apparatus rather than astronomical observations.  If you start a Foucault Pendulum swinging in one direction, after a few hours you will notice that it is swinging in a quite different direction.  How does this happen?  Imagine you are in a museum located at the north pole and that the museum has a Foucault Pendulum suspended from the ceiling at a point exactly over the pole.  When you set the pendulum swinging it will continue to swing in the same direction unless it is pushed or pulled in some other direction.  (This is due to a basic law of nature called Newton's First Law.)  The earth, on the other hand, will rotate once every 24 hours underneath the pendulum.  Thus if you stood watching the pendulum, after a quarter of an hour or so, you would be likely to notice that the line of the pendulum's swing has changed to a different direction.  This would be especially clear if one marked the position of the line of swing in the morning and had the pendulum knocking down pegs arranged in a ring at the center.  https://www.si.edu/spotlight/foucault-pendulum     

The NCAA Division I men's basketball tournament, branded as March Madness, or The Big Dance, is a single-elimination tournament played in the United States to determine the men's college basketball national champion of the Division I level in the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA). Played mostly during March, the tournament was first conducted in 1939 and currently consists of 68 teams.  Known for its upsets of favored teams with its single game single-elimination format, it has become one of the greatest annual sporting events in the US.  The 68-team format was adopted in 2011; the tournament format had remained largely unchanged since 1985, when it expanded to 64 teams.  Before then, the size of the field varied from as little as 8 teams to as many as 53.  The field was restricted to conference champions until at-large bids were extended in 1975 and teams were not fully seeded until 1979.  In 2020, the tournament was cancelled for the first time due to the COVID-19 pandemic and in the next season, the tournament was contested completely in the state of Indiana as a precaution.  37 different schools have won the tournament to date.  UCLA has the most with 11 championships and their coach John Wooden has the most titles of any coach with 10.  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NCAA_Division_I_men's_basketball_tournament 

Tropical Cyclone Narelle triggered massive dust storms across Western Australia, turning skies blood-red over Shark Bay and Denham.  Powerful winds lifted iron-rich soil into the air, scattering light and creating the eerie glow.  The cyclone followed a rare cross-country path, reaching Category 4 strength before weakening.  Updated March 29, 2026  https://www.freepressjournal.in/viral/watch-blood-red-skies-shock-western-australia-as-cyclone-narelle-triggers-massive-dust-storms

March 30, 2026