Новости за 03.03.2022

1. Anna Netrebko, Russian Diva, Is Out at the Metropolitan Opera  The New York Times
2. Anna Netrebko, Russian soprano, out at the Metropolitan Opera  CNN
3. The culture war: Russian artists under pressure to speak out against Putin  POLITICO Europe
4. Anna Netrebko off the Met Opera programme for silence on Putin  Euronews
5. Russian Opera Star Booted From the Met Opera for Refusing to Denounce Putin  The Daily Beast
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The Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine is 91% effective at protecting those ages 12 to 18 years against infection for at least four months after their second shot, a study published Thursday by JAMA Network Open found.

Those who have tried to pry a mussel from anything from wood to rock know how stubborn the underwater mollusks are—and their gluey secret has long captivated scientists. For years, researchers have attempted to replicate the extraordinary adhesive and its properties in the lab, targeting some of the eight proteins that mussels secrete and use to coat an organ called a foot that mussels use to attach to surfaces.

Frasier was able to make use of a staggering amount of celebrity voice cameos in its 11-season run - here's how, and what makes them so perfect.

More than 20 years after the first release of the human genome, scientists at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München and the Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research in Cologne, Germany, have for the first time deciphered the highly complex genome of the potato. Their impressive technical feat, published in Nature Genetics, will accelerate efforts to breed superior varieties.

Ambatovy mine, a major contributor to Madagascar's economy and a company which positioned itself as a leader in sustainable mining, is on track to deliver 'No Net Loss' of the unique forest habitat destroyed by the mine.

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Lindsborg, Kan. - The Swedes Call of Duty team kicked off CCL Split 2 on Monday 2/28, first competing with the Gators of San Francisco State University followed by the University of California-Berkeley Golden Bears.

Jeep released photos of its first all-electric vehicle, a compact crossover SUV.

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Tiny living, better living. Where does the smell of coffee live more intensely? In a large cup of coffee with milk or in a cup of ristretto? Clearly, the well is the result of our search for new ways of living. We give an efficient response to interior spatiality and the use of resources and spaces so that with fewer elements, we live better.

VISO Trust, which has raised $11 million in series A funding, brings AI to address the problem of compiling third-party risk information.

TLM partners has acquired fighting game Coreupt and its developer of the same name, and has also announced a new project called Hypernova.

The Sandbox now has more than two million registered users and is launching Alpha Season 2 for its metaverse.

As part of its ongoing plans to make intimacy coordinators an industry standard on film and television shots, SAG-AFTRA announced on Thursday that it has accredited seven new training programs to increase the number of coordinators available to oversee the filming of sex scenes.

Intimacy coordinators are described by SAG-AFTRA as “an advocate, a liaison between actors and production, and a movement coach and/or choreographer in regard to nudity and simulated sex and other intimate scenes.” In the wake of the #MeToo movement in 2017... Читать дальше...

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Russia-Ukraine War,

At arguably the most dangerous time in decades, the Pentagon took a clear step to show the world that the United States is a “responsible nuclear power.”

Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin has postponed a long-scheduled test of the Minuteman III intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) to send an unambiguous message to Russia and the world that the United States will not engage in destabilizing rhetoric related to the possible use of nuclear weapons. Читать дальше...

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From desert boots to Chelseas, here’s how to shake up your tailoring from down below.

Full disclosure: this episode of the Electronic Wireless Show podcast was initialy going to be called the best menial jobs in games special, but half way through we decided we didn't like the term, and also that it was limiting the scope of the episode, so we changed it to regular jobs. Basically we're talking about when you do normal work in games that isn't hero-slaying-monster type stuff, you know?

Wunderman Thompson executives Emma Chiu and Gareth Jones, and Odyssey CEO Reid SantaBarbara discuss the creative agency’s move into the metaverse.

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This weekend, UFC 272 takes place at the T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas and features a welterweight grudge match between former interim champion Colby Covington and “BMF” champion Jorge Masvidal. The once “best friends” now turned bitter rivals are both coming off a loss to welterweight champion Kamaru Usman, and they desperately need a win to stay relevant in the 170-pound title conversation.

On Feb. 28, the European Union published a list of Russian oligarchs who will face sanctions in response to the conflict.

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Data from the Austin Independent School District shows a surge in resignations from teachers and support staff, including bus operators and food service workers.