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As the pandemic and lockdowns dragged on and on over the past year, most of us longed only for the day when the world would return to what it was before Covid-19 entered our vocabulary. For others, though, the months of seclusion led them to search for ways they might be able to make the world just a little better place than it was before. Here are a few ideas on improving your little part of the post-pandemic Earth that you could latch onto, or maybe you have some ideas of your own.

BILLINGS, Mont. - A man is traveling through Montana as part of a 15,000-mile journey to spread awareness about a rare form of cancer, cholangiocarcinoma.  Dave Fleischer was joined by his wife Linda for the first leg of the trip. They passed through Billings on March 26. Dave and Linda's Fleischer's daughter Sarah passed away from cholangiocarcinoma in 2018. The trip is a way to honor her and, Dave said, to bring hope to those who need it the most. "I would say the day we found out it was cholangiocarcinoma, it was like a bomb went off," Dave Fleischer said. "That's how I would describe i...

When movie theaters are open for business, snacks make up nearly half of their profits. But when movie houses first cropped up, managers banned food outright.

Close (Photo : Max Fleischer, Dave Fleischer and Ovide Decroly on Wikimedia Commons) Since modern humans left Africa around 50,000 years ago, ancient DNA from Neanderthals and early modern humans revealed that the two groups actually interbred somewhere in the Near East. As a result, anyone outside of Africa carries about 2% to 3% Neanderthal DNA. Those Neanderthal DNA segments grew progressively shorter in modern human genomes over time, and their length can be used to approximate when a person lived. Furthermore, archeological evidence released last year indicates that modern humans were al...

5 March 2021 After getting “lost in the depths of fantasy,” Brooklyn-based singer-songwriter Elizabeth Ziman never expected to toon in for help with promoting her brand new tune. Then classic character and life-is-but-a-dream girl Betty Boop suddenly appeared. Max Fleischer’s animation creation appears as the retro-fit star, along with Ziman’s voice, words, and music, in the black-and-white lyric video for “thirsty”, which the expressive indie-pop act known as Elizabeth and the Catapult premieres exclusively today at PopMatters. The presentation of the lively number delivered by t...