Medical professionals questioned how well the individual plastic bubbles protected band members and concertgoers from the coronavirus.
The Flaming Lips have used plastic bubbles at concerts to protect against the transmission of the coronavirus, but some experts were unsure about the effectiveness of those measures.Credit.Scott Booker/Warner Music
Jan. 25, 2021
There are Covid-19 bubbles small clusters of friends or family who agree to socialize exclusively with each other during the pandemic and then there are the kinds of bubbles the Flaming Lips used at recent concerts.
Band members and concertgoers rocked out and bounced while encased in large individual plastic bubbles amid bright swirling lights in trippy scenes at concerts on Friday and Saturday in Oklahoma City.
By Sandra Feder
Human history has been shaped by vivid experiences of gods and spirits, from Augustine’s conversion to Christianity after hearing a disembodied voice to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s decision, after hearing God’s voice, to move ahead with the Montgomery bus boycotts.
Stanford researchers have identified attributes that make individuals more likely to have the experience of the presence of gods and spirits. (Image credit: Marc Olivier Jodoin / Unsplash)
Now Stanford University anthropologist Tanya Luhrmann, the Howard H. and Jessie T. Watkins University Professor in the School of Humanities and Sciences, has identified two attributes, porosity and absorption, that make individuals more likely to have these kinds of experiences. Over the course of four studies of more than 2,000 participants from many different religious traditions in the United States, Ghana, Thailand, China and Vanuatu, Luhrmann and her team demonstrate the power of culture in combination with
10 billionaires could pay for vaccine for all on earth, says report
25 Jan 2021
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The collective wealth of the world s billionaires rose $3.9 trillion between March and December 2020 to reach $11.95 trillion, according to The Inequality Virus report, published as global leaders tune in for the World Economic Forum s (WEF) virtual Davos Dialogue meeting.
The 10 richest men - a list led by Amazon s Jeff Bezos and Tesla founder Elon Musk which also includes LVMH luxury group s CEO Bernard Arnault, Microsoft s Bill Gates and Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg - saw their net worth increase by $540 billion in the same period, Oxfam said.
Billionaires including Amazon's Jeff Bezos and Tesla founder Elon Musk have seen their wealth soar during the COVID-19 pandemic while the world's poor face years of hardship, charity Oxfam said on Monday as it demanded steps to tackle inequality. Nations have a "shrinking window of opportunity" to build a fair,…
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‘Weâve let the worst happen’: Reflecting on 400,000 dead
Eight months later, with 300,000 additional American lives lost and the chaotic distribution of the vaccine underway, Caroline Chen, health care reporter, shares her thoughts on where we are and what happens next.
In May of last year, ProPublica health care reporter Caroline Chen reflected on the first 100,000 lives lost to COVID-19 and posed an important question: âHow do we stop the next 100,000?â Eight months later, with 300,000 additional American lives lost and the chaotic distribution of the vaccine underway, Chen shares her thoughts on where we are and what happens next.