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Foo Fighters frontman Dave Grohl, I likely don’t need to tell you, is quite a popular fella....Unsurprisingly, seeing as he’s a man of logic and reason, he is strongly in favor of the Covid-19 vaccine. John Joseph, formerly of Cro-Mags, is well known in the world of hardcore, a genre predicated on channeling one’s anger into positivity. Except for Joseph and his newer band Bloodclot, who performed for nearly 3,000 people in New York City this April — when Covid-19 numbers were still quite high and vaccines weren’t yet available to everyone (especially younger people) — at which social distancing...

The next time you're tempted to call some oaf a Neanderthal, you might want to take a look in the mirror. According to a new DNA study, most humans have a little Neanderthal in them—at least 1 to 4 percent of a person's genetic makeup. The study uncovered the first solid genetic evidence that "modern" humans—or Homo sapiens—interbred with their Neanderthal neighbors, who mysteriously died out about 30,000 years ago. What's more, the Neanderthal-modern human mating apparently took place in the Middle East, shortly after modern humans had left Africa, not in Europe—as has long been suspected. "We can now...