Everyone pretty much lost their minds when this 10-year-old girl delivered a powerful electric guitar cover of a Papa Roach song on America’s Got Talent. Even the band members themselves were impressed by her incredible performance! In fact, they shared a video of her shredding their popular song, “Last Resort,” on social media. They also encouraged their fans to support the young girl as she plays her way into the finals! “P Roach fans let’s tap in on this tonight and help this girl get to the finals!” they wrote in the caption of their post. @paparoach P Roach fans let’s tap in on this tonight and help this girl get to the finals! @Maya Neelakantan is a 10yr old that rocked Last Resort on @America’s Got Talent Episode airs TONIGHT 8/7c on @NBC and streaming on @Peacock #americasgottalent #mayaneelakantan ♬ original sound – paparoach Many people weren’t expecting 10-year-old Maya Neelakantan to blow their minds with an epic guitar solo. Dressed in traditional Indian garb, the young girl came off as shy and unassuming. However, it soon became clear that, with a guitar in her hands, she was anything but. Her Papa Roach cover had the America’s Got Talent audience on their feet in no time! Of course, Maya was completely thrilled that the band approved of her rendition of their song. “It’s an honor!” she responded in the comments section. “Thank you so much @paparoach! I’m very happy you enjoyed it. Thank you for all your love and support. Means a lot.” Papa Roach fans loved this girl’s cover. Screengrab from TikTok So far, it looks like Papa Roach fans are rooting for Maya on America’s Got Talent. Commenters on the band’s post absolutely loved the girl’s performance! “My Flabbers were gasted,” said one user. “That was amazing!” Another suggested, “So y’all gonna get her to one of your shows and have her play this with you right!?!?!” We can’t wait to see what else Papa Roach fan and guitar prodigy Maya Neelakantan has in store for us on America’s Got Talent. This talented kid is going places! You can find the source of this story’s featured image here. The post Papa Roach Endorses Incredible Rockin’ 10-Yr-Old Girl For “America’s Got Talent” Finals appeared first on InspireMore.

This might actually be more intriguing than them playing against each other

One look at Nili Brosh’s list of ten albums that changed her life will tell you this: life—and music—is about balance. And that checks out, as her playing is an amalgam of all the things she loves that are inherent in her list. For those of you who aren’t familiar with her work, Nili Brosh is one of the premier guitarists out there today. At 35, she’s done her part to carry the torch for decades to come regarding guitar. Nili’s unique style, swagger, and outright ability to shed have found her alongside Danny Elfman, Steve Vai, Jennifer Batten, and The post Nili Brosh: 10 Albums That Changed My Life appeared first on ClassicRockHistory.com.

One of the culinary world’s most prized fish, and one of the sea’s fastest most accomplished predators, has left regulators stunned at its powers of recovery. A target for the pan-Pacific stock of bluefin tuna has already been reached a decade in advance, with one federal fisheries policy analyst suggesting the world isn’t far away […] The post Recovery of the ‘Ferrari of Tuna’ Achieves Major Goals–A Decade Ahead of Schedule appeared first on Good News Network.

The sight of a snake coiling its way up a stick might not immediately conjure up the idea of good health, yet the staff-scaling serpent has stood as an emblem of medicine for thousands of years. Seen on ambulances, hospitals, and paramedic uniforms the world over, this insignia continues to represent the art of healing – although many institutions have unwittingly adopted the wrong symbol.The Alchemist And The SnakesDepending on where you are, you’ll see either a single snake climbing a stick or a pair of serpents winding their way up a winged rod. The latter is currently used by the US Public Health Service and was once displayed by over three-quarters of the country’s hospitals, despite having no historical connection to medicine.Known as a caduceus, this double-snaked logo represents the staff carried by the ancient Greek god Hermes, or Mercury as he was later called by the Romans. A divine messenger who provided protection to thieves and liars, Hermes had no ability to heal the sick and was not associated with medicine in ancient times.However, as the popularity of alchemy grew during the Middle Ages, philosophers and magicians became increasingly interested in the Hermetica Texts, which laid out the foundations of the alchemical art and were attributed to Hermes Trismegistus - a mythical character who represented both Hermes and the Egyptian god Thoth. During the Renaissance, the caduceus became the symbol of alchemy and was frequently used to denote concoctions that contained mercury.As alchemy is seen as the precursor of chemistry, pharmacology, and, ultimately, medicine, the caduceus later became associated with healing. In the nineteenth century, the US Army Medical Corps officially adopted the emblem, which later became the symbol of the Public Health Service – although in reality, the US government had got its wires (or snakes) crossed, as it should have picked a different (but similar) image.The US Army Medical Corps was the first modern institution to erroneously adopt the caduceus as its logo.  Image credit: Keith McIntyre/Shutterstock.comThe Snake Of HealthUnlike the US healthcare system, the majority of institutions around the globe - including the World Health Organization - display a solitary snake and staff. Used to denote healing for at least 2,400 years, this symbol represents the Rod of Asclepius, the ancient Greek demigod of medicine.According to mythology, Asclepius received his healing powers as a reward for curing a gravely ill snake. Sanctuaries were later established throughout Greece in the divinity’s honor, many of which hosted healing rituals that involved the use of snakes - although it’s highly unlikely these actually worked.Despite the questionable efficacy of these serpentine surgeries, legend has it that Asclepius was so successful at saving lives that Hades - the god of the underworld - had to have him assassinated in order to ensure a continued supply of freshly departed souls. In most artistic depictions, Asclepius is shown as a bearded man leaning on a staff with a snake coiled around it, and it’s this rod that can be seen on most medical institutions' logos worldwide.However, while the correct symbol for medicine features just one snake, the US is far from alone in mistakenly adopting the caduceus. Other nations currently using this alchemical impostor include India, Türkiye, Malaysia, and Ghana.All “explainer” articles are confirmed by fact checkers to be correct at time of publishing. Text, images, and links may be edited, removed, or added to at a later date to keep information current.  

Among all the other strange things about the platypus, only the very observant notice that it also barely has a stomach. Short-beaked echidnas share some of the unusual traits of the platypus digestive system as well. Now, a genetic study of the two monotreme species has provided some insight into the timing of this development, indicating their common ancestor probably lived a semi-aquatic lifestyle like the platypus today.A stomach is such a useful body part that almost all living vertebrates have one with certain common features, although ruminants famously have found subdividing makes them better still. Monotremes are among the rare exceptions. Although not lacking stomachs entirely, both have organs quite different from those of other vertebrates, inspiring University of Adelaide PhD student Jackson Dann to wonder how they got that way.“The platypus stomach is small, amorphic, glandless, and it lacks a pyloric sphincter, making it notably hard to distinguish from the oesophagus and intestines,” Dann and co-authors wrote in a paper exploring monotremes’ stomach-related genetics.The short-beaked echidna has taken a different path. It has a bulbous stomach, with a restriction to regulate the flow of food and gastric juices to the duodenum, but it also lacks glands or acid to break down its food. Then again, when your diet is made up of ants, the acid comes pre-supplied. Long-beaked echidnas, being restricted to New Guinea, and therefore much harder to study, were not investigated, but are probably similar to their short-beaked cousins in this regard.The commonalities between the stomachs of other mammals and reptiles indicate that when the ancestral monotremes branched off the main mammalian line, they had stomachs much like our own. Dann and co-authors conclude the basis of the difference is the non-expression of the Nkx3.2 gene. The accumulation of neutral mutations on this part of the genome suggests neither species has used it for a very long time.The few other vertebrate lineages also known to have stopped using conventional stomachs, such as the Japanese pufferfish, are all aquatic or semi-aquatic, making echidnas very much the odd species out. Therefore, the authors argue the change probably occurred in an ancestor living a lifestyle similar to the modern platypus well over a hundred million years ago. This may help settle the long-standing question as to which of its descendants the ancestral monotreme more closely resembled. Quite why some water-dwelling creatures find a stomach an encumbrance, when most make use of it, is not known, nor why echidnas didn’t evolve more features back when they redeveloped a large holding place in their digestive system.The study is open access in Open Biology.

Taxpayer-funded PBS is inaccurately branded as the fairest, most unemotional TV news outlet. Anyone looking at PBS right after Biden’s disastrous debate would have realized they were more favorable to Biden than anyone else. They steered clear of the dominant panic among Democrats. They sounded more like the DNC than MSNBC. On the PBS News Hour on Friday after the debate, they offered a bland introduction: “Analysis of key moments and fallout from last night's presidential debate.” Then the program aired 20 minutes of other news. The last two-thirds of that hour were dedicated to underlining that Donald Trump unleashed a “torrent of lies,” so he lost the debate. First came PBS White House reporter Laura Barron-Lopez, a staunch Democrat: “Though praised by Republicans for his debate performance, Trump repeated lie after lie, including this one on abortion.” Trump said Biden’s willing to “rip the baby out of the womb in the ninth month and kill the baby.” PBS aired Biden yelling “you’re lying!” That’s not a lie. The Democrat platform is clear that there should be no restrictions on abortion. It’s merely rude to point out the obvious. Later, Barron-Lopez announced Biden was trying to reset by calling Trump a threat to democracy. He “pointed out that Donald Trump lied over and over during the debate, which as we all know that he did on immigration, on abortion.” They followed this with an interview of Gov. Tim Walz (D-Minn.) spinning on Biden’s behalf. PBS co-anchor Amna Nawaz hammered the line again: “He did deliver a steady stream of lies and baseless information that went largely unchecked. So, to your mind, for viewers watching last night, do you think that contrast was clear?” In case it wasn’t clear, PBS next turned to Samantha Putterman of the liberal site PolitiFact, whose post-debate ratings found Trump was false on 16 occasions, and never true. Biden was on the false side three times out of eleven, but PBS skipped those. On PBS, he was always right. Again, PBS co-anchor Geoff Bennett lamented: “Mr. Trump repeated a false claim that he's made before that Democrats, in his words, will take the life of a child in the eighth month, the ninth month, and even after birth.” Putterman said it was false, and dragged out the lame argument that since late-term abortions are rare, it's false to say Democrats permit them. Bennett wrapped up: “What's the consequence when a torrent of lies and mistruths delivered with verve and vigor go unchallenged as they were last night?” Putterman helpfully agreed. “I think that the consequences are quite high.” They concluded the “Trump Lies Hour” with pundits David Brooks and Kimberly Atkins Stohr. She complained Biden failed to counter Trump’s lies, like on abortion! “I expected him to come out and make a clear layup on issues like abortion when Donald Trump was standing there lying about it, one of his many lies of that night, and he couldn't even manage that.” Amna Nawaz pounded the line again: “David, as Kim noted there, Mr. Trump once again repeated a number of lies we have heard before on things like immigration and abortion and on January 6, all issues that really do resonate with voters. They went largely unchecked in the debate.” You know who is unchecked? PBS. They tax our paychecks, then relentlessly trash-talk Trump as a liar, and imply Biden is never false. Biden's only failing is he didn't call Trump a liar enough. PBS made sure no one could lodge that complaint against them.

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