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Kanye West loses lawsuit over uncleared sample but warns ‘there is a cost’ to taking him on in court

Kanye West loses lawsuit over uncleared sample but warns ‘there is a cost’ to taking him on in court

Published by Daniella Wilson

Get the inside track from Roisin O’Connor with our free weekly music newsletter Now Hear This Get our free music newsletter Now Hear This Get our free music newsletter Now Hear This Ye, the rapper formerly known as Kanye West, has lost a copyright lawsuit after artists accused him of infringing on their work by using an uncleared sample during a live performance. Four musicians — Khalil Abdul Rahman, Sam Barsh, Dan Seeff and Josh Mease — claimed Ye incorporated their 2018 track “MSD PT2” in his song, “Hurricane,” during a listening party for his 10th studio album, Donda, held at Mercedes-Benz Stadium in Atlanta in July 2021. On Wednesday, a jury in Los Angeles found Ye, who testified at the trial, liable for $176,153 in damages, and his companies, Yeezy LLC, Yeezy Supply, and Mascotte Holdings, liable for around $260,000 in damages. The four artists’ legal representative, Britton Monts, said: “It’s a victory for working artists, who typically lack the resources to go against someone like Ye, a megastar and celebrity. The underdogs got …

Where we stand with PFAS sample testing

Where we stand with PFAS sample testing

Published by skeptic

Explore the different types of PFAS tests and see how they continue to evolve. Current Environment Protection Agency (EPA) methods for targeted PFAS sample testing can quantify up to 40 PFAS. While PFAS with maximum contamination limits are currently included in these methods, there is great concern for the thousands of potential PFAS that are not screened and quantified. Therefore, the ability for laboratories to provide analytical tests that are complementary to the EPA methods currently offered is of great importance. It would provide a more holistic picture of how much PFAS contamination exists in aqueous, solid, and gas samples. Additional testing methods for PFAS in aqueous samples Expanded analyte testing methods Currently, drinking water methods published by the EPA for the analysis of PFAS only examine 18 analytes (Method 537.1) and 25 analytes (Method 533). These methods use liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry (LC-MS/MS) to analyse samples that are concentrated beforehand via solid phase extraction (SPE). The combination of pre-concentration and LC-MS/MS allows for very precise and accurate measurements of targeted PFAS. To screen more …

Asteroid Bennu sample finds life’s building blocks formed in space ice

Asteroid Bennu sample finds life’s building blocks formed in space ice

Published by Jenni Sidey

Penn State researchers think a key ingredient for life may have formed in deep freeze, not in a warm asteroid puddle. A space sample with a new twist Scientists at Penn State; led by geoscientist Allison Baczynski and postdoctoral researcher Ophélie McIntosh; studied amino acids in material from the asteroid Bennu. Their work appeared in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission delivered the Bennu sample to Earth in 2023. Earlier tests found amino acids in that 4.6-billion-year-old dust. Amino acids are the small molecules that join up to make proteins. Analyzing a precious bit of space dust no bigger than a teaspoon, the Penn State team used custom instruments capable of measuring isotopes, slight variations in the mass of atoms. (CREDIT: Jaydyn Isiminger / Penn State) The big question has been simple: Where did those amino acids form? Many scientists pictured mild, watery chemistry inside an asteroid. The Penn State team says Bennu’s chemistry points somewhere colder. “Our results flip the script on how we have typically thought amino acids …

The First American Cookbook: Sample Recipes from American Cookery (1796)

The First American Cookbook: Sample Recipes from American Cookery (1796)

Published by José Betancourt

Image via Wiki­me­dia Com­mons On the off chance Lin-Manuel Miran­da is cast­ing around for source mate­r­i­al for his next Amer­i­can his­to­ry-based block­buster musi­cal, may we sug­gest Amer­i­can Cook­ery by “poor soli­tary orphan” Amelia Sim­mons? First pub­lished in 1796, at 47 pages (near­ly three of them are ded­i­cat­ed to dress­ing a tur­tle), it’s a far quick­er read than the fate­ful Ron Cher­now Hamil­ton biog­ra­phy Miran­da impul­sive­ly select­ed for a vaca­tion beach read. Slen­der as it is, there’s no short­age of meaty mate­r­i­al: Calves Head dressed Tur­tle Fash­ion Soup of Lamb’s Head and Pluck Fowl Smoth­ered in Oys­ters Tongue Pie Foot Pie Mod­ern chefs may find some of the first Amer­i­can cook­book’s meth­ods and mea­sure­ments take some get­ting used to. We like to cook, but we’re not sure we pos­sess the where­with­al to tack­le a Crook­neck or Win­ter Squash Pud­ding. We’ve nev­er been called upon to “per­fume” our “whipt cream” with “musk or amber gum tied in a rag.” And we wouldn’t know a whortle­ber­ry if it bit us in the whit­pot. The book’s full title is an indi­ca­tion of its mys­te­ri­ous author’s ambi­tions for the new country’s culi­nary …