Month: September 2022

Nils Frahm’s work lives in the gray area between ambient, neoclassical, and other gossamer styles of experimental music. The Berlin-based composer and producer’s output tends to recall Philip Glass and Aphex Twin in equal measure, but he has released everything from dubby downtempo to theater scores. Though he performs on a battery of synthesizers, keyboards, and electronic gizmos, he’s most closely associated with the piano, both as a performer—last year’s Old Friends, New Friends was just the latest in a long line of solo piano recordings—and as the founder of Piano Day, an international celebration of the instrument. But his new album, Music for Animals, features no piano at all. Centered on a largely electronic palette, Frahm’s first collection of fresh material in four years is more evocative of Warp Records than it is of Erik Satie.

Fram started recording Music for Animals during the first year of the pandemic,

DENVER (KDVR) — A man was injured by a reindeer on a farm in Larimer County on Tuesday evening. Colorado Parks and Wildlife said it is legal to own a reindeer in Colorado.

In fact, there’s a wide variety of animals that you can own in our state.

“It is legal to have domestic animals, which aren’t regulated by the Colorado Parks and Wildlife. These animals must, however, comply with regulations of the state agriculture and health departments that deal with public and animal health,” CPW said.

Domestic animals you can own

Here is a look at the domestic animals you can own:

• Alpaca
• Donkey
• bison
• Camel
• Cats
• Cattle
• Chickens
• Chinchilla
• Dogs
• Ducks
• Emu
• European ferrets
• Fowl
• Geese
• Gerbils
• Goats
• Hamsters
• Horses
• Llama
• Mice
• Mink
• Ostricho
• Peafowl
• Pig
• Pigeons
• Rabbits
• Rats
• Rhea
• Reindeer
• Sheep
• Swine
• Turkeys
• ok

In some ways, digging down through layers of earth is a bit like traveling back in time — revealing secrets of the past which often can shape our understanding of the present.

And at the center of one recent archaeological discovery is an apparent homage to animals.

Last week, the Palestinian Ministry of Tourism and Archeology announced the discovery of a buried cultural treasure beneath a farm in Gaza — a colorful mosaic believed to date back to the Byzantine Era in the 5th to 7th century.

The discovery was made while farmer Sulaiman Al-Nabahin and his family dug in their orchard.

The Ministry of Tourism and Archeology says that the culture significance of the site is still being studied. But the artwork, crafted in exquisite detail, suggests an appreciation or perhaps a reverence for the animals depicted there.

A variety of birds, rabbits and canines are among the animal

Does comparing the total number of human neurons vs. the total number of neurons among all domesticated animals affect the moral balance between animals and people? Oxford philosopher and Effective Altruism co-founder William MacAskill engages in such neuron counting as he grapples with the issue of the moral standing of animals compared to people in his new book What We Owe The Future. I was unable to include an investigation into his ruminations on this topic in my forthcoming review of his book in Reason‘s December 2022 issue, so let’s take a look here.

First, just how many animals are we talking about? According to MacAskill’s count, people slaughter and eat 79 billion vertebrate land animals annually. The amount of biomass in land-based farm animals is 70 percent greater than that amassed in all humans. And domesticated food animals outnumber us substantially. At any one time, some 25