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Steely Dan's Donald Fagen curses out the makers of a new documentary on Yacht Rock

The producers of HBO's new documentary movie "Yacht Rock: A DOCKumentary," were able to interview many of the key players of the 1970s/1980s yacht rock music genre. But when they contacted Donald Fagen, the surviving member of the group Steely Dan, to request his involvement, the phone call, the audio of which is actually played in the documentary, went like this:

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Phys.org 

Team shows increase in food mass through photorespiratory bypass in elevated temperatures

A team from the University of Illinois has engineered potato to be more resilient to global warming, showing 30% increases in tuber mass under heat wave conditions. This adaptation may provide greater food security for families dependent on potatoes, as these are often the same areas where the changing climate has already affected multiple crop seasons.

France24.com (en) 

French marine park to close over law banning killer whale shows

Animal activists have been angered by Marineland's plans to transfer its two killer whales to Japan, a move France's ecology minister said she opposed over Tokyo's more lax animal welfare laws. Marineland was hit by a firestorm of controversy in March after two of its orcas died within five months of each other. The park, near Antibes on the French Riviera, has some 4,000 animals from 150 different species. But visitor numbers have dropped from 1.2 million a year to just 425,000 over the last decade. Читать дальше...

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