Watch Kelly Rowland Play an ’80s Pop Star in ‘Bad Hair’ | Anatomy of a Scene
Yes, the writer and director Justin Simien’s new horror movie, “Bad Hair,” is about a killer weave. But it makes time to bathe not only in blood, but also in nostalgia.
The movie (streaming on Hulu) is set in 1989 and follows Anna (Elle Lorraine), an employee at a Black music network called Culture TV. In this scene, one of Culture’s shows is introducing an exclusive new music video for the song “I Get It,” by the pop star Sandra. That musician is played by Kelly Rowland, who performs vocals for the song (written by Simien). While Anna and her co-workers watch the video on a monitor on set, they are struck by Sandra’s latest look, a new flowing weave that bounces with each beat.
The scene cuts between the action in the Culture studio and the music video itself, a throwback to Janet Jackson-style pop aesthetics and a tribute to the new jack swing music style.
In his narration, Simien discusses what it took to recreate the look of an ’80s music video and how he ensured the camerawork matched the buoyant choreography.
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October 23, 2020
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Megan Thee Stallion: Why I Speak Up for Black Women | NYT Opinion
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October 20, 2020
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This U.S. Election Could Be the Most Secure Yet. Here’s Why. | 2020 Elections
With early voting underway, states are working to reassure voters that their ballots will be counted as cast. Our video shows how states’ responses to Russian hacking and the coronavirus crisis have helped make the election more secure than ever.
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October 19, 2020
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Watch Sacha Baron Cohen Get Serious in ‘The Trial of the Chicago 7’ | Anatomy of a Scene
Aaron Sorkin knows his way around courtroom drama theatrics. His script (adapted from his Broadway play) for the 1992 Tom Cruise-Jack Nicholson verbal slugfest “A Few Good Men,” did not shy away from gavel-banging razzmatazz. He returns to court with the docudrama “The Trial of the Chicago 7” (streaming on Netflix), which he wrote and directed.
The trial of the title involves several antiwar activists (played by several Oscar and Emmy winners) who were accused of conspiring to cause riots at the 1968 Democratic National Convention.
The trial itself was a carnival of sometimes funny, sometimes shocking moments, which Sorkin depicts. But this scene, featuring the testimony of the usually more jokey agitator Abbie Hoffman (played by the usually more jokey Sacha Baron Cohen), turns down the volume and gives the court more of the order its judge (Frank Langella) has been seeking throughout the film.
It’s the film’s final trial scene, but it’s handled differently than usual. Narrating this video, Sorkin explains why he went in a quieter, more straightforward direction, and why all eyes were on Cohen in interpreting its tone in his performance.
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October 16, 2020
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How a U.S. Task Force Killed a Wanted Antifa Activist
President Trump praised the killing of Michael Reinoehl, suspected of fatally shooting a far-right protester, as “retribution.” Our investigation found that officers may have shot without warning or seeing a gun.
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October 13, 2020
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What's the Problem With Vote-by-Mail? | 2020 Elections
The second episode of our four-part series, Stressed Election, focuses on vote-by-mail, which has become one of the most contentious issues of the 2020 election. In Michigan, a state decided by fewer than 11,000 votes in 2016, a group of bipartisan election officials worry they won’t have the time or resources to ensure results on election night.
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October 12, 2020
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How Julie Taymor Brings Visual Flair to ‘The Glorias’ | Anatomy of a Scene
When an interviewer poses a sexist question to Gloria Steinem in the biopic about her life, a giant red tornado sweeps him away.
Or at least it does in Steinem’s thoughts. That sequence is one of a few moments of fanciful abandon in “The Glorias,” Julie Taymor’s drama that casts four actresses to play the feminist activist.
The scene begins during a television interview, with Alicia Vikander playing Gloria. But when the interviewer (Michael Lowry) says to her, “I hope you’ll forgive our masculine notion that you are an absolutely stunning sex object,” the casting of Gloria changes in the middle of the interview to Julianne Moore, then leads into the fantasy sequence of her response.
“I allow the whimsy of her imagination to say what she would say, could she say it,” Taymor said in an interview.
In this video, Taymor further explains the scene and how she put it together, from creative costuming (by Sandy Powell) to a sweeping score (by Elliot Goldenthal). And she discusses filming her performers on wires over green screen that would combine with visual effects into a sequence that pays tribute to both “The Wizard of Oz” and “Macbeth.”
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October 02, 2020
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How America Bungled the Plague | NYT Opinion
A year ago, the United States was regarded as the country best prepared for a pandemic. Our government had spent nearly two decades strategizing for a doomsday scenario. So what went wrong?
How is it that America, which wrote the global playbook for pandemic response, accounts for just 4 percent of the world’s population yet more than 20 percent of the world’s coronavirus deaths?
One of the most important functions of journalism is to provide accountability, so in the video above, Johnny Harris dives deep into an exploration of what went wrong and when, and who’s to blame and why.
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September 29, 2020
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Why Voting in This U.S. Election Will Not Be Equal | 2020 Elections
The first episode of our four-part series, Stressed Election, focuses on voter suppression in Georgia, where a growing Black and Latino population is on the precipice of exercising its political voice, if they get the chance to vote.
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September 28, 2020
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I'm Not Alone. I Have My Cats. | Op-Docs
In Lasse Linder's "All Cats are Gray in the Dark," we enter the world of an older man living by himself in a small city in Austria. Only he’s not alone — he has his two Scottish Fold cats, Marmelade and Katyusha. The cats accompany him everywhere: to the bar, to the grocery store, to the ski slopes. As we watch their relationship unfold, the trio builds a world that’s exclusively and intimately theirs alone — a reminder that families are whatever we make them out to be. All that defines them is love.
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September 16, 2020
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I’m Trying to Topple Europe’s Last Dictator | NYT Opinion
In the video Op-Ed above, Svetlana Tikhanovskaya tells the story of her improbable rise from stay-at-home mom to revolutionary icon. She reluctantly became the figurehead of the Belarusian opposition movement after her husband was thrown in jail for daring to challenge Europe’s last dictator.
Belarus has been ruled by the same man, Alexander Lukashenko, since 1994. Over the past 26 years, he has violently suppressed many who challenged his rule — jailing opposition candidates or driving them into exile. So Belarusians were unsurprised when the pattern began to repeat in 2020 — democracy was being subverted once again.
But the unlikely has happened. After rallying behind Ms. Tikhanovskaya, widely believed to be the true victor of the August elections, hundreds of thousands of Belarusians have gathered in protest to make it clear they’ve had enough of Lukashenko — and they aren’t backing down.
Could this unlikely hero be bringing an end to his tyrannical rule?
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September 23, 2020
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How an Oregon Wildfire Became One of the Most Destructive | Visual Investigations
The Almeda fire left a path of destruction as it tore through the Rogue Valley in southern Oregon. About 24 hours after it started, an estimated 2,350 homes had been left in ashes. We used satellite images, videos and social media posts to track what happened.
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September 21, 2020
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Remembering Ruth Bader Ginsburg | NYT News
Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, the Supreme Court’s feminist icon, not only changed the law, she also transformed the roles of men and women in society, according to Linda Greenhouse, contributing writer and former Supreme Court Correspondent for The Times.
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September 18, 2020
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How Tom Holland Seeks Revenge in ‘The Devil All the Time’ | Anatomy of a Scene
“You got time for a sinner?”
That line from the vengeance-seeking Arvin Russell (Tom Holland) is delivered with a sense of both weariness and foreboding. The weight of tortured souls confronting evil from all corners is at the heart of “The Devil All the Time,” the period drama that also stars Robert Pattinson as a not-so-faithful preacher.
Antonio Campos directed the Netflix film and, in this video, walks us through a scene that begins like confession but gives way to threats of retribution. The components are simple: two characters, a church and a gun. But those spare elements lead to an extended scene of both quiet nuance and sustained tension.
Campos talks about the challenges of pulling the scene off, both in the performances and in the assembling process. His editor, Sofía Subercaseaux, is also his wife, and he says they worked on this scene, on and off, for nine months to get it right.
He also discusses how sound design played a role in portraying a character’s nervousness (amplifying the clank of the shaking gun) and how certain camera angles help to tell the story from individual characters’ perspectives.
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September 17, 2020
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When Talking to Aliens Is Your Religion | Op-Docs
In the mid-1950s, an English taxi driver named George King claimed that he had received a directive from outer space. The dispatch spurred him to establish the Aetherius Society, a religious group that believes communicating and working with aliens will better humanity. Though unconventional, the group’s practices aren’t dangerous or hateful; they often mirror those of more established religions, with an extraterrestrial twist.
In Annalise Pasztor's "Gods From Space," members of the Aetherius Society explain their mission of peace and their unique prayer method in times of crisis. We don’t know how many people this group comprises overall, but with 35 centers across five continents, it’s a small international community bonded by the belief that the earth needs extraterrestrial support to survive.
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September 14, 2020
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Why You Should Care About TikTok | NYT Opinion
Maybe you first learned about TikTok when your kids tried to teach you the Toosie Slide, or when you came across a kinetic Charli D’Amelio video that got millions of likes. Or was it when your nephew started a small fire because of the “outlet challenge?” In any case, you’ve definitely heard that President Trump was intent on banning it and forced it to make a deal with an American company. But who really cares about an app — used mostly by Gen Z?
You, for one, should.
In the video Op-Ed above, a group of highly influential TikTokers from around the country, with followers in the millions, demonstrate that the platform is more than cringy video for and by teenagers. It’s the most downloaded app and nearly 100 million Americans use it for a range of things — like political organizing and learning about beekeeping — and even boomers and educators are on the app. It’s also just fun.
Like any social media platform, we should keep an eye on it. But that doesn’t mean this one app should be targeted — if anything, we should be paying closer attention to other companies, like Facebook.
Even if you still don’t care about what’s happening with TikTok, you should be worried about what could be next.
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September 14, 2020
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This Doctor Wants to Humanize Death | Op-Docs
If losing a child to an illness is one of the worst things that can happen to a family, Dr. Nadia Tremonti has made it her mission to make it better.
It’s not easy. But as a pediatric palliative care physician, she works to ensure that terminally ill children receive quality end-of-life care. Palliative care is sometimes misunderstood to shorten life expectancy, but it’s a method that increases quality of life, improves symptom burden and decreases medical costs. We follow Dr. Tremonti in John Beder's "Dying in Your Mother's Arms" as she works to make death less medical and more human. In the process she asks a critical question: When a child is terminally ill, how can we make the end of life a better one?
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September 10, 2020
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How Sam Hunt Makes a Country Hit: Hip-Hop and 1950s Honky-Tonk | Diary of a Song
The Nashville boundary-pusher Sam Hunt and five all-star collaborators built “Hard to Forget,” his latest country radio No. 1, around a sample of Webb Pierce’s “There Stands the Glass,” from 1953. See how they made it sound modern in the latest Diary of a Song episode.
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September 10, 2020
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Why The Olympics Punished Me For Protesting | NYT Opinion
In sports arenas around the world, taking a knee is no longer taboo — it’s trending. But there’s at least one place where protesting is still not allowed.
The Olympic medal podium.
In the video Op-Ed above, the track and field Olympian Gwen Berry confronts Thomas Bach, president of the International Olympic Committee, over what she feels is his organization’s hypocrisy: Olympians are celebrated for their courage, drive and tenacity. But if they are spurred by those same traits to demand racial justice? That’s a punishable offense.
On the podium at the 2019 Pan Am Games, Berry raised her fist. Then she paid for it. She was reprimanded by the U.S. Olympic and Paralympic Committee and is now unsponsored. She is among the top hammer throwers in the world, but hasn’t received an athletic grant since protesting.
Berry is a Black woman without a safety net defying a global organization that brought in $165 million in profits in 2018. Yet athletes like her — who often scrape by — are faced with an impossible dilemma: keep their mouths shut or jeopardize their career to fight for justice.
Berry has fought to get to where she is today. She was raised by her grandmother in a household of 13 in Ferguson, Mo. After having a son at age 15, she earned a college scholarship and became a top hammer thrower. While training to qualify for the Olympics in 2016, she held down two jobs — working at Dick’s Sporting Goods during the day and delivering Insomnia Cookies at night — and helped support 10 extended-family members back home.
Last month, Team USA formed a council to make recommendations on race and social justice. But Berry says as long as free speech is censored, volunteer committees are not enough.
As for what she really wants? You’ll have to hear it from her in the video above.
This time, she won’t be silenced.
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September 04, 2020
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How ‘Mulan’ Goes to Battle | Anatomy of a Scene
For the live-action film “Mulan,” putting together a sequence where an avalanche drives back an army was no big deal. It only required two years of preparation, multiple location scouts, intense horse training and a cast of more than 80 Mongolian and Kazakh trick riders. In other words, a cinch.
Niki Caro, the director of the anticipated film (finally on a home screen near you via Disney+), worked tirelessly with a large team of crew and cast to pull off a sequence many will remember from the animated version. But the new scenes have some narrative updates.
In this video, she discusses the moment when Mulan (played by Yifei Liu) comes into her own as a warrior and uses her smarts with an assist from nature to beat back an aggressive army.
“The key for me to creating and executing a sequence of this size, scale and complexity was the collaboration of some really singular women,” Caro said. That collaboration included her cinematographer Mandy Walker, and one of her first assistant directors, Liz Tan.
They found the right location, one with multiple levels to stage a battle, in the Ahuriri Valley, on the South Island of New Zealand. In managing all of the moving parts, like extras, stunts and the use of a trebuchet to fire a real flaming cannonball, Caro said “it was like being the conductor of a really brilliant orchestra.”
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September 03, 2020
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It’s soup season, and @itsalislagle's stellar soup is reviving and cozy, made in one pot, and ready in 30 minutes. It starts with ginger-scented chicken-cilantro meatballs that are browned, then simmered in a fragrant coconut milk broth that’s inspired by tom kha gai, a Thai chicken-coconut soup seasoned with lemongrass, galangal, makrut lime leaves and chile. A heap of spinach is added for color and flavor, and a squeeze of lime adds brightness and punch. The soup is brothy, so serve it over rice or another grain to make it a full meal. Tap the link in our bio for the full recipe from @nytcooking. Photo by @johnny_miller_, with food styling by @susanspungen
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Mining for crystals has become a pretty big business. At pay-to-dig mines around the U.S., visitors can paw through piles of mine tailings to uncover crystals and gemstones on “finders, keepers” terms for as little as $10 a day.
At Herkimer Diamond Mines in central New York, home to an especially clear and unusually hard type of quartz crystal known as the Herkimer diamond, a $14 admission price includes a day of prospecting and the rental of a rock hammer.
In a typical year, one-fifth of the mine’s customers are international tourists, so when the pandemic halted travel and delayed the start of this year’s April-to-November digging season, the mine’s proprietor, Renée Scialdo Shevat, worried about what the loss in revenue may do to the 40-year-old family business.
By late summer, she was more concerned with how to limit the crowds. Diggers of all ages and degrees of seriousness had begun arriving in droves. “These days, every day is like a Saturday,” Shevat said in early September.
Tap the link in our bio to read how some modern-day prospectors are making thousands of dollars selling precious stones they dug up themselves. Photos by @vnina
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With early voting underway, states are working to reassure voters that their ballots will be counted as cast. Our video shows how states’ responses to Russian hacking and the coronavirus crisis have helped make the election more secure than ever.
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With 11 days to go until Election Day, more voters have already cast early ballots than did during the entire early-voting period in 2016. More than 50 million people so far have decided not to wait until Nov. 3 to vote.
The early-voting turnout, which combines mail-in ballots already received and early in-person voting, passed the 2016 mark of 47.1 million on Thursday, according to the U.S. Elections Project, which tracks state-by-state data.
The sky-high totals come despite a mess of glitches and hourslong lines that have plagued early voting across the country. Still, voters say they’ve been energized by what many consider the most consequential election of their lifetimes. Several 2020-specific factors are also at play. Some voters say they want to avoid coronavirus risks in the long lines of Election Day, while some Trump supporters have opted for early in-person voting as a result of President Trump’s assertions that mail-in balloting is insecure (though voter fraud is extremely rare).
As expected, the early voters have leaned heavily Democratic. Of those who have voted so far, 50.6% are registered Democrats, 26.6% are Republicans and 22.2% are unaffiliated, according to the U.S. Elections Project.
The nationwide early turnout represents 36.5% of the total turnout in 2016. Some states, like Texas, Georgia, North Carolina and Vermont, are reporting higher totals. Early voting has not yet begun in other states, including New York, which begins the process on Saturday.
Tap the link in our bio to read more about early voting across the U.S.
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Late-season wildfires are rampaging through Colorado.
Scenes of panic and destruction played out across Northern Colorado on Thursday as a wildfire exploded through the parched woods and valleys around Rocky Mountain National Park, offering a grim example of how climate change is making fire seasons longer and more destructive across the West.
“This is the worst of the worst of the worst,” said Sheriff Brett Schroetlin of Grand County, where the East Troublesome Fire had burned about 170,000 acres by Thursday evening.
Fire crews and residents were staggered by the wildfire’s speed and ferocity. It grew at a pace of 6,000 acres per hour, racing into Rocky Mountain National Park, forcing the park to close down, and jumping over the Continental Divide. By Thursday afternoon, the fire was menacing the resort town of Estes Park, on the eastern side of the national park, turning skies smoky yellow and forcing rounds of mandatory evacuations there.
Firefighters are also battling to contain the Cameron Peak Fire, north of Rocky Mountain National Park, which has burned since August and this week grew into the largest fire recorded in Colorado history.
Tap the link in our bio to read more about the fires in Colorado and how, after a season of hellish wildfires throughout the West, there is new evidence that climate change and rampant growth are creating perfect breeding grounds for fire. Photo by Jessy Ellenberger, via @apnews
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A team of New York Times reporters fact-checked 46 statements the candidates made during Thursday’s final presidential debate. Tap the link in our bio to what was true, false or misleading.
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President Trump and Joe Biden delivered starkly divergent closing arguments to the country in the final presidential debate on Thursday, offering opposite prognoses for the coronavirus pandemic and airing irreconcilable differences on rescuing the economy, bolstering the health care system, fighting climate change and reshaping immigration policy.
Of all the disagreements between the two candidates, none blazed more brightly than their assessments of the American experience battling the coronavirus.
The president did say for the first time, “I take full responsibility” for the impact of the virus. Then he quickly sought to skirt blame. “It’s not my fault that it came here — it’s China’s fault,” he said.
Biden responded, “Anyone who’s responsible for that many deaths should not remain as president of the United States of America,” and added: “I will end this. I will make sure we have a plan.”
Trump stuck to the sunny message he has delivered at recent campaign rallies, promising a vaccine in short order and citing his own recovery from a bout with the virus as an example of medical progress. The president boasted that he was now “immune” to the disease and insisted that the virus was fading away in states like Texas and Florida, even as case counts are on the rise across the country.
“I’ve been congratulated by the heads of many countries on what we’ve been able to do,” Trump said, without offering specifics.
Biden, in response, pressed a focused and familiar line of attack against the president, faulting him for doing “virtually nothing” to fend off the pandemic early this year and heading into the coldest part of the year with no defined plan to control the virus. Holding up a mask, Biden said he would encourage all Americans to don one and would ramp up rapid testing on a national scale.
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At Thursday night’s debate, President Trump and Joe Biden differed on when a vaccine to combat the coronavirus would be available.
A team of New York Times journalists fact-checked the final presidential debate. Tap on the link in our bio for complete coverage.
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With less than 2 weeks until Election Day, President Trump and Joe Biden laid out starkly different visions of America during their final presidential debate on Thursday night.
The candidates clashed on health care, race relations and the environment.
Biden, the Democratic nominee, said he would build on the Affordable Care Act, which Trump called “socialized medicine.”
They sparred over election interference and foreign entanglements, and Trump tried to bait Biden over his son’s business activities. “Release your tax return or stop talking about corruption,” Biden said.
“Just a typical politician,” Trump sneered at Biden early in the debate. When Biden described how he would deal with criminal justice reform, Trump snapped, “Why didn’t you do it” while in office, adding: “You had eight years with Obama. You are all talk and no action.”
Biden — finding himself in a conventional debate against a more restrained Trump in the early stages of the face-off — went on offense by offering a line-by-line indictment of Trump’s response to the coronavirus pandemic.
“He says we are learning to live with it — people are learning to die with it,” Biden said. And Biden hit back after Trump claimed that he had taken steps that saved millions of lives: “He thinks we are in control,” Biden said. “We are about to lose 200,000 more people.”
Tap the link in our bio for an analysis from our reporters. Photo by @erinschaff.
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95 million cows make up nearly 2% of total greenhouse gas emissions in the U.S. — changing what they eat could help reduce methane emissions and global warming.
Cattle have a multichambered stomach where microbes ferment grass and other tough fibrous vegetation, making it digestible. But this process, called enteric fermentation, also produces methane, a potent planet-warming gas that the cattle mostly belch into the air.
Researchers within and outside the industry are working on ways to reduce emissions from fermentation, through feed supplements or dietary changes. Other efforts aim to lower emissions from the animals’ waste — a source of methane as well as another powerful greenhouse gas, nitrous oxide — through improved manure storage and handling.
Cattle are far from the largest source of greenhouse gases, which include carbon dioxide, methane and others. Their total contribution is dwarfed by the burning of fossil fuels for electricity, transportation and industry. But considering methane separately, livestock are among the largest sources of that particularly powerful planet-warming gas.
Tap the link in our bio to learn more about cattle feed’s impact on the climate. Photos and video by @geosteinmetz
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Azerbaijan is engaging in the heaviest fighting with Armenia since the war in the early 1990s.
When clashes broke out 3 weeks ago — provoked, most analysts say, by Azerbaijan — the country plunged into battle to reclaim the lands it lost to Armenia: the territory of Nagorno-Karabakh, an ethnic Armenian district inside Azerbaijan. Azerbaijan suffered a bitter defeat then, losing about 13% of its territory, with as many as 26,000 dead and around 800,000 displaced.
Now, signs of war fever are not hard to spot around the capital of Baku. The country’s bright 3-colored flag hangs from every public building, while giant screens along the main streets downtown play horrifying video footage of precision drone strikes on Armenian soldiers. Every few days, President Ilham Aliyev, who has ruled the country since inheriting the office from his father in 2003, speaks to the nation and announces the names of villages and towns that have been newly “liberated.”
Criticism of the war, where it exists, is muted. Yet the general mood is overwhelmingly supportive.
“This will continue until we liberate the last piece of our land, and at the end I would like to note that everyone will finally understand Azerbaijan,” said one war veteran who lost an arm at the age of 20.
Azerbaijan has not released numbers of military casualties, but funerals are underway, bringing the war home to its people. But as the country’s soldiers advance in the conflict with Armenia, every “liberated” territory is celebrated and tens of thousands of refugees plan their return to lost lands.
In a dilapidated, half-built school building in a northern suburb of Baku, more than 1,000 refugees still live in cramped, unsanitary conditions where they first found refuge from the war decades ago.
“I believe that we are going to get our lands back,” said Ceyhun Seymur Khudiyev, whose home village is a ghost town under Armenian control. “Justice is taking its place.”
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On Wednesday, Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha of Thailand acknowledged that the country could not become “a better society through the use of water cannon” and said he intended to withdraw an emergency decree cracking down on pro-democracy protests.
As thousands of demonstrators marched on Government House, home of the prime minister’s office, he urged all sides to resolve their differences through the parliamentary process and said he would seek to call Parliament into session next week.
“I will make the first move to de-escalate this situation,” he said in a televised evening address. “I am currently preparing to lift the state of severe emergency in Bangkok and will do so promptly if there are no violent incidents.”
Protesters appeared to be unmoved by the prime minister’s words and, hours later outside Government House, a delegation hand-delivered a resignation letter to a police commander for Prayuth to sign. On Thursday morning, after an evening of relatively peaceful protests, Prayuth withdrew the emergency decree he issued last week.
In recent months, a movement for democracy has been building in Thailand, inspired in part by outspoken student leaders willing to risk prison by criticizing the government and the monarchy. While withdrawing the emergency decree was a first step in easing tensions, it is unlikely that the proposal for parliamentary intervention will satisfy protesters who demand Prayuth’s resignation. Tap the link in our bio to read more. Photo by @adamjdean.
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