The U.S. Food and Drug Administration granted emergency use authorization today for the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine to be given to anyone age 12 or older. The decision follows clinical trials that showed it to be safe and 100% effective at keeping young people out of the hospital or dying from COVID-19. Until today, only people over the age of 16 have been eligible for vaccination.

The Massachusetts Audubon Society has managed its land as wildlife habitat for years. Here’s how the carbon credits it sold may have fueled climate change.

Ted “fire breathing idiot” Barrus has made somewhat of a name for himself as a man who can handle the heat. For Barrus to consume spicy peppers is a point of pride — after all, he’s the one who gave himself that nickname. But some days, the world dulls. Barrus wanted to “just do crazy shit, out of the blue.” So he decided to bong rip a Carolina Reaper, the spiciest, scariest pepper in the world.

In 1978, Brian Eno released Ambient 1: Music for Airports, a landmark album in ambient and electronic music. Although it wasn’t the first ambient album by any means, it was the first album explicitly released as an ‘ambient music album’. The album was essentially a continuation of Eno’s experimentation with the tape machine as a compositional tool, as well as his exploration of generative music, music created by systems. In this article I’ll discuss how Music for Airports was created, I’ll break down and recreate the tracks 2/1 and 1/2, and hopefully give you some ideas about how to adopt this approach yourself. Eno’s experiments with tape loops go as far back as 1973’s (No Pussyfooting), a collaboration with King Crimson’s Robert Fripp that employed an early experiment in sound-on-sound tape looping. For the recordings, Fripps’s guitar was run into two tape machines feeding into each other. The musical material runs back and forth between the machines, creating longs delays akin to modern loop pedals. The length of the delay was set by the physical distance between the two machines.

So you’ve heard about how fish aren’t a monophyletic group? You’ve heard about carcinization, the process by which ocean arthropods convergently evolve into crabs? You say you get it now? Sit down. Sit down. Shut up. Listen. You don’t know nothing yet. “Trees” are not a coherent phylogenetic category. On the evolutionary tree of plants, trees are regularly interspersed with things that are absolutely, 100% not trees. This means that, for instance, either: The common ancestor of a maple and a mulberry tree was not a tree. The common ancestor of a stinging nettle and a strawberry plant was a tree. And this is true for most trees or non-trees that you can think of. I thought I had a pretty good guess at this, but the situation is far worse than I could have imagined.

German architect Helmut Jahn, long a powerhouse of Midwest design, is dead at 81 after a fatal accident on Saturday afternoon. Jahn was reportedly struck

Psilocybin and MDMA are poised to be the hottest new therapeutics since Prozac. Universities want in, and so does Wall Street. Some worry a push to loosen access could bring unintended consequences.

Nepal is being overwhelmed by a COVID-19 surge as India's outbreak spreads across South Asia, the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies said on Wednesday. Nepal is now recording 57 times as many cases as a month ago, with 44% of tests now coming back positive, the statement said. Nepalese towns near the Indian border could not cope with the growing number of people needing treatment, while only 1% of the country's population was fully vaccinated. "What is happening in India right now is a horrifying preview of Nepal’s future if we cannot contain this latest COVID surge that is claiming more lives by the minute," said Netra Prasad Timsina, chair of the Nepal Red Cross.

The U.S. government stole Nez Perce treaty land to make way for gold miners in the 1860s. A century and a half later, gold mining again threatens the tribe’s homeland.

At Toronto South and Toronto East, 24.4 per cent of new entrants had no fixed address.

The threat can’t be ignored. As water continues to recede, the fear is that “the fission reaction accelerates exponentially,” Hyatt says, leading to “an uncontrolled release of nuclear energy.” There’s no chance of a repeat of 1986, when the explosion and fire sent a radioactive cloud over Europe. A runaway fission reaction in an FCM could sputter out after heat from fission boils off the remaining water. Still, Saveliev notes, although any explosive reaction would be contained, it could threaten to bring down unstable parts of the rickety Shelter, filling the NSC with radioactive dust.

A Philadelphia district attorney candidate on his campaign website is addressing the death of a woman whose body was found in his home. Charles Peruto Jr.'s website features multiple sections, including ones titled "Black Lives Matter," "The Opioid Crisis" and, on his "About Me" page, "The Girl in My Bathtub."

The Biden team has hired a slate of immigration judges initially selected during the Trump era, angering advocates who argue the White House is already failing to deliver in its pledge to push back against the prior administration's shaping of the

From reports of kids fainting to transfers in the middle of the night, the place is more like a jail than a shelter, insiders say.

Foods that were once popular in the Great Depression are making a comeback in 2020, as bare shelves and panic buying have made people get creative in the kitchen. Depression-era foods like meatloaf, water pie, and baked beans are weirdly making a comeback onto dinner tables in America.

I’m still laughing as I remember how once around 1970 or ’71, my friend Chiqui paid his overdue rent in Austin by selling a “Peyote Gardens” map. His hand drawn chart showed the area southeast of Laredo on the old Loop 20 and the El Rancho Drive-In Theater. He scrawled an X on a random spot there. Who knows? There may actually have been a peyote plant or two growing on the other side of the ranch’s barbed wire fence. The fifty photocopies at $1.50 apiece sold out in twenty minutes on The Drag in front of the University Co-op store, and Chiqui satisfied his landlord. The poor South Laredo rancher, however, had a heck of a time with the plague of hippies who suddenly descended and scrambled over his property, eyes to the ground, looking for the little psychedelic cactus knobs under the mesquite. Odds are the gullible heads stumbled across more rattlesnakes than Lophophora williamsii. Poor stoners, they had to drive back to Austin for the Shiva’s Headband concert at the Vulcan Gas Company empty-handed —and equally empty-headed. Fortunately for Chiqui, with courses to pass and burgers to flip at Les Amis, none of his cognitively-impaired victims ever recognized him on Guadalupe as the phony peyote map guy.

Visitors to Dracula's castle are more likely to find puncture marks in their arms than their necks this month, after medics set up a COVID-19 vaccination centre at the Transylvanian attraction.

More than 200 outbreaks of avian influenza across Poland over the past few months have sparked fears of a shortage of cuts imported into the UK. .. I am worried that food security may soon be a much bigger concern than Covid.

While some employers may be struggling to hire for one reason or another, economists say generous unemployment benefits are not the cause.

His fellow pilots fired on the terrified French airman for 20 minutes of the incident in March 2019, according to the man's lawyers.