Phil Ochs – Crucifixion Live

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They said that Robert Kennedy cried when he heard Phil Ochs preform the song about his brother in 1966. RFK would be dead in a little over a year, Ochs dead in less than a decade later.

Coronavirus Updates : NPR

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Danish Agriculture Minister Resigns Amid Criticism For Ordering Mink Cull : Coronavirus Updates : NPR

The cull was ordered after a mutated version of the SARS-CoV-2 virus was found to have spread among the country's mink herd — one of the world's largest — and then to humans. The AP reported at least 11 people were sickened by a mutated version of the virus.

Multiple mutations of the virus have been found in minks, but a variant known as C5 was the most concerning to scientists, due to its structure. Research from a Danish public health body, the Statens Serum Institut, had suggested that C5 might hinder the effectiveness of a vaccine against COVID-19.

Natural furs are warm, and don't use synthetic plastics. Probably though the cull was necessary to protect human health and the future viability of the farms. Mink are a renewable resource that can rebred, so while the feed and energy that went into raising them was wasted, the resource of the fur can be reproduced going forward. 

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Researchers To Recreate Historic European Scents In $3.3M Study : NPR

The team will then work with chemists and perfumers to recreate around 120 scents — with the plan to help museums integrate them into exhibits to create an immersive step into history.

"If there's one thing that I hope will come out of this project, it's that the people that we interact with will go away thinking, what are the smells around me every day?" Tullet said. "How can I train my nose a bit better and engage with the smells around me?"

During the Bubonic plague, you might have smelled burning tar or rosemary, which was believed to ward off the disease. As the world faces another global pandemic, our smell-scapes are being changed again, he said.

Scent is precious, and that's even more apparent during the pandemic, he said. One of the symptoms of the coronavirus can be a loss of smell. Once it's gone, many people realize how important it is, he said.