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Jane's Addiction
Dave Navarro and Perry Farrell performing in 2010
Dave Navarro and Perry Farrell performing in 2010
Background information
OriginLos Angeles, California, U.S.
Years active
  • 1985 (1985)–1991
  • 1997
  • 2001–2004
  • 2008–present
Associated acts
Past members

Jane's Addiction is an American rock band from Los Angeles, formed in 1985. The band consists of vocalist Perry Farrell, guitarist Dave Navarro, drummer Stephen Perkins and bassist Chris Chaney.

Founded by Farrell and original bass guitarist Eric Avery following the disintegration of Farrell's previous band Psi Com, Jane's Addiction was one of the first bands from the early 1990s alternative rock movement to gain both mainstream media attention and commercial success in the United States. Jane's Addiction's first release was a self-titled live album in 1987 and quickly caught the attention of Warner Bros. Records. The band's first two studio albums, Nothing's Shocking (1988) and Ritual de lo Habitual (1990), were released to widespread critical acclaim, and an increasing cult fanbase. As a result, Jane's Addiction became icons of what Farrell dubbed the "Alternative Nation".[3] The band's initial farewell tour, in 1991, launched the first Lollapalooza, which has since become a perennial alternative rock festival.

The band briefly reunited in 1997, with Flea of the Red Hot Chili Peppers replacing Avery on bass guitar. In 2001, a second reunion took place, with Martyn LeNoble—and later Chris Chaney—occupying the role of bass guitarist. In 2003, the band released its third studio album, Strays, before dissolving again the following year.

In 2008, the band's original line-up reunited and embarked on a world tour. Eric Avery, however, subsequently left the band in early 2010 as the group began working on new material. The band released its fourth studio album The Great Escape Artist in 2011, with Chaney returning to the band for its recording and subsequent tour, and featured the TV on the Radio's multi-instrumentalist Dave Sitek. In 2016, Jane's Addiction were nominated for induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

Formation and Jane's Addiction (1985–1987)[edit]

Jane's Addiction formed from the remains of frontman Perry Farrell's previous band, Psi Com. In mid-1985, Farrell was searching for a bassist to replace Kelly Wheeler in the faltering Psi-com. He was introduced to Eric Avery by Carla Bozulich (later of The Geraldine Fibbers), and the pair bonded over a mutual appreciation of Joy Division and The Velvet Underground. They began to practice together, although Avery never became a full-fledged member of Farrell's disintegrating group.[4]

The new band was dubbed "Jane's Addiction" in honor of Farrell's housemate, Jane Bainter, who was their muse and inspiration.[5] "My girlfiend [Casey Niccoli] and I were sitting in the car…" Farrell recalled, "and we started to think about band names. She threw in Jane's Heroin Experience. I thought it wasn't vague enough. If you want to invite people in, you don't want to put heroin on your door."[6]

In its formative incarnation, Jane's Addiction went through four guitarists and featured Matt Chaikin, formerly of Kommunity FK, on drums.[7]

After Chaikin failed to show up for rehearsals, Farrell sought a new drummer. Avery's younger sister Rebecca suggested her boyfriend Stephen Perkins. Avery was uncertain because of their differing tastes in music, but eventually relented.[8] After Perkins was hired, the drummer and Rebecca promised to get their friend Dave Navarro into the group. Based on Perkins' recommendation, the band auditioned and hired Navarro.[9]

Jane's Addiction became a sensation on the Los Angeles club scene, primarily headlining at Scream, and won interest from a variety of record labels. While the group decided to sign with Warner Bros. Records, they insisted on releasing their debut on independent record label Triple X Records first.[10] The band's manager negotiated the largest advance up to that point, with Warner Bros. signing the band for between $250,000 to $300,000.[11] In January 1987, the band recorded its debut Jane's Addiction during a performance at the Roxy Theatre, at a cost of $4,000.[12] Before the album's release, Jane's Addiction supported British band Love and Rockets on a two-month tour in late 1987.[13] In late 1987, the band opened for former Bauhaus vocalist Peter Murphy at the now demolished Fender's Ballroom in Long Beach.

Nothing's Shocking (1988–1989)[edit]

In January 1988, Jane's Addiction went into the studio to record its major label debut and follow-up to Jane's Addiction, Nothing's Shocking. Warner Bros. gave Jane's Addiction a list of producers to choose from, but the group chose Dave Jerden.[14]

Nothing's Shocking was released in 1988. "Mountain Song" was released as a single; MTV refused to air the song's music video because of a scene containing full frontal nudity.[15] Farrell then decided to release the music video commercially with added live footage to create the Soul Kiss home video.[16] Because of lack of airplay on MTV and modern rock radio, the album only sold 200,000 to 250,000 copies in its first year of release.[17]

After the album's release, the band went on tour, opening for Iggy Pop and The Ramones. By the end of the tour, Jane's Addiction was headlining clubs and theaters.

During the recording sessions, Farrell stated he wanted 50% of the band's publishing royalties for writing the lyrics, plus a quarter of the remaining half for writing music, adding up to 62.5%. Bassist Eric Avery said he and the other members – guitarist Dave Navarro and drummer Stephen Perkins – were stunned by these demands.[18] Farrell refused to compromise. One day Jerden drove to the studio to find Farrell, Navarro, and Perkins leaving; Farrell told him the band had broken up and there would be no record. Warner Bros. called an emergency meeting to resolve the situation. Farrell received the percentage he sought, and the other members received 12.5 percent each. Avery said the incident had a profound effect on the band, creating an internal fracture.[19]

Not long after the royalties dispute, Farrell and Avery – who had cofounded the band – had a falling-out. This was the result of Avery's newfound sobriety as well as an incident in which Farrell believed Avery had drunkenly tried to pick up his girlfriend. "Unfortunately," Farrell recalled, "the tensions between Eric and I affected the whole family. Some people were asked to take sides, and others just moped about because they didn't know what was going on."[20] Perkins, however, is reported to have got along with Navarro, Avery and Farrell.[21]

Ritual de lo Habitual and first breakup (1989–1991)[edit]

Jane's Addiction was scheduled to begin recording its next album in mid-1989. Navarro later stated he had almost no recollection of working on the album due to his addiction to heroin.[22] Ritual de lo Habitual was released in 1990. To support it, the band embarked on a lengthy tour. Farrell recalled, "That thirteen-month tour behind Ritual was half the reason we wound up unable to stand one another. The other half is that I am an intolerable narcissist who can't get along with anyone."[23]

Part of the tour included headlining the first Lollapalooza festival, which traveled across North America in mid-1991. The festival, created by Farrell and Marc Geiger, was to become a farewell for Jane's Addiction, but also a showcase for other cult artists: Siouxsie and the Banshees, Nine Inch Nails, the Butthole Surfers, Living Colour, The Rollins Band, The Violent Femmes, and Ice-T's Body Count. The headliners began to get more exposure than ever before: "Been Caught Stealing" and "Stop!" became hits and earned rotation on MTV. During the very first Lollapalooza show, Farrell and Navarro got into a fight onstage[24] after violently bumping each other mid-song. The band walked off, but came back to play an encore; however, the fight continued and Navarro eventually threw his guitar into the crowd. Regardless, the band continued the tour and played about 25 more Lollapalooza shows, frequently covering Sly and the Family Stone's "Don't Call Me Nigger, Whitey" with Ice-T and Body Count.

Differences between the members on the issue of drug use on the "Ritual" tour led to a schism: Farrell and Perkins regularly partook, while Avery and Navarro abstained. According to Spin (1991, Vol. 7 Num. 3), between shows, Avery and Navarro sought to avoid temptation by retiring to a section of the tour bus set aside for them. After shows, Avery and Navarro (and Navarro's wife at the time, Tanya) would retire to their hotel. "They have," said Spin, "simply learned that they cannot use drugs of any kind anymore without becoming slaves to them, and that slavery is death."

In late 1991, Avery told Navarro that he planned to leave. Navarro quickly agreed to do the same. The two told their management, who in turn tried to convince them to play in Japan, but Avery and Navarro only wanted to play as much as was contractually obligated. The band played its last shows in Australia and Hawaii before disbanding.[25] "It's weird to be at the end of a cycle like that," remarked Avery, "having run the gamut of the usual 'rock story' from beginning to end: you get signed, get strung out, break up."[26]

First reunion and Kettle Whistle (1997)[edit]

Dave Navarro joined the Red Hot Chili Peppers in 1993 (he would be fired in 1998) and during a hiatus for the band, Navarro along with Chili Peppers's Flea joined Porno for Pyros to record "Hard Charger" in 1997 for Howard Stern's movie, Private Parts soundtrack. This led to a brief Jane's Addiction Relapse tour, with Flea replacing Avery who declined an invitation to rejoin the band. They produced a compilation album titled Kettle Whistle featuring two new songs with Flea on bass. In 2010, Perkins stated that "Flea, to me, was a great match in '97. As a drummer, he was very exciting for me to work with."[27]

Strays (2001–2004)[edit]

"I got a phone call from a promoter who asked me if I would be interested in re-forming the band for the Coachella festival in LA," said Farrell in 2001, "and taking the band on tour after that... This comes at a time when this record [his solo album Song Yet to Be Sung] is about to be plucked. Steve [Perkins] played on three of the songs, and Dave [Navarro] played with Steve on the single. So there are plans for Jane's' summer tour."[28]

The consequent 2001 Jubilee Tour featured largely the classics, alongside "Hungry" from Navarro's Trust No One and "Happy Birthday Jubilee" from Song Yet to Be Sung. Fans were told to expect a "Sexual Psycho Circus... half-naked, penny rafters, guitar solos, and tribal drums..." Indeed, during 'Classic Girl', scantily clad stage dancers filled the arenas. Avery declined to be involved. Since Flea was busy with the Chili Peppers, Porno for Pyros bassist Martyn LeNoble was enlisted. (Fellow Pyros member Peter DiStefano guested at one show, to play "Pets".[29])

Following the success of this tour, the band decided to record a follow-up album to Ritual De Lo Habitual and tapped Chris Chaney to replace LeNoble on bass. They entered the studio with producer Bob Ezrin in 2001, recording as a band for the first time in over 10 years. The result was a fourth album, Strays. Some of the songs (or parts of songs) dated far back in the band's history, while others were new. Reaction was generally favorable,[30] with Rolling Stone reporting that "The band sounds familiar" and "beefier" though without the "glint of madness" of the original line-up.[31] The first single, "Just Because", reached number 72 on the Billboard Hot 100, while "Superhero" garnered exposure as the theme for HBO's hit series Entourage.

The band spent 2003 on an extensive worldwide tour in support of Strays, including a summer headliner slot in a reincarnated Lollapalooza U.S. tour. Following this homecoming of sorts, Jane's Addiction once again broke up towards the end of 2003 after canceling several dates. Although details surrounding the band's demise are sparse, Navarro claimed on his website,[32] in June 2004, that the reasons were essentially the same as they were in 1991. Perkins later stated, "We always break up if it's not real. We really can't fake it… We can make a million dollars for three months touring but we would fucking hate each other, which isn't good. Even with the nostalgia, it's not worth it if it doesn't sound good, or look good. One of the things with Jane's is that we have never been good at faking it."[33]

A hits album – Up from the Catacombs – The Best of Jane's Addiction – was released on September 19, 2006.

Return of Eric Avery and NIN/JA Tour (2008–2010)[edit]

Jane's Addiction performing at Verizon Amphitheater in Charlotte, North Carolina in 2009

Jane's Addiction performed at the first-ever NME Awards USA on April 23, 2008, with the reunited core line-up of Perry Farrell, Dave Navarro, Eric Avery, and Stephen Perkins. This was the first performance with bassist Eric Avery since 1991, taking place after their acceptance speech for the "Godlike Genius Award". To follow this up, the original line up performed their first full set in 17 years in Los Angeles on October 23, 2008 at La Cita Bar, and played two further club gigs at the El Cid in Los Angeles on November 20.[34] and the Echoplex on February 16, 2009.[35] On April 11, 2009 they had a birthday bash for Perry that included members of Jane's Addiction and Porno for Pyros on the same stage; the bash was nicknamed Perrypalooza.[36]

Around this time, photos of Farrell, Navarro, Avery and Perkins, taken by Trent Reznor, appeared on Nine Inch Nails' official web site, leading to speculation that Reznor could be helping Jane's Addiction record new material.[37] "He did his best to be both producer and psychologist," Farrell said, in a Billboard report about tension between himself and Avery. "He was very respectful, trying to get out of the way and not overproduce. I wish honestly he would've produced a little more, but he was a little gun-shy after seeing us explode on each other in the studio. He became the referee for a day and after that day I think he was done."[38] Nonetheless, Reznor subsequently posted a blog entry announcing that Jane's Addiction would accompany Nine Inch Nails on their summer 2009 tour, which kicked off on May 8 in West Palm Beach, Florida.[39]

To accompany the tour, newly recorded versions of "Trip Away" and "Whores" were released for free via the official tour website.[40] Farrell explained: "To get some creative juice flowing, we went into the studio for about two weeks. We had the idea to re-record two tunes, just because they'd never been done officially in the studio. And we had some fun writing some new things. A handful that are close to finished, but not quite done. But there's no rush to put anything out at this point."[41] Navarro blogged: "We wanted to give our longtime listeners something to celebrate the tour and 'Whores' has always been one of the tracks that defined Jane's early on."[42]

A retrospective box set, A Cabinet of Curiosities, was released to coincide with the NIN/JA tour in April 2009.

In July 2009, Jane's Addiction was scheduled to play the Splendour in the Grass festival in Australia when a health issue forced a last-minute cancellation.[43] Music Feeds reports that an arm infection, probably that of drummer Stephen Perkins, is the cause of the cancellation. The entire Australian leg of the Jane's Addiction 2009 world tour was cancelled, though Jane's Addiction would play the next year's Splendour in the Grass.[44]

Jane's Addiction performed at the 2009 Voodoo Fest held at City Park in New Orleans, Louisiana over Halloween weekend.[45] The concert was filmed and a year later released as Live Voodoo DVD, which received mixed reviews. "It all falls rather flat, a two-dimensional sound robbing the likes of 'Ocean Size' and 'Ted, Just Admit It' of any sense of dynamics," Phil Mongredien of Q wrote.[46]

Jane's Addiction returned to Australia in February 2010 for the Soundwave Festival.[47] Avery left the band following the festival, stating: "That's it. With equal parts regret and relief, the Jane's Addiction experiment is at an end."[48]

The Great Escape Artist (2010–2012)[edit]

The band began working with Guns N' Roses bassist Duff McKagan on new material.[49][50][51] with a picture of the group working together posted on Navarro's Twitter page.[52] It was later confirmed by Dave Navarro on his Dark Matter radio program that McKagan had indeed joined Jane's Addiction on a permanent basis.[53]

The new lineup of Jane's Addiction made their debut, performing at singer Perry Farrell's 51st birthday celebration, at Les Deux in Los Angeles, California on March 30.[53][54]

In April 2010, the group announced two European dates, scheduled for June, taking place at the GelreDome, in Arnhem, Netherlands, and an appearance at the Rock in Rio in Madrid, Spain.[55] Preceding these shows in Europe was a one-off Cinco de Mayo concert that took place at the Bardot in Hollywood, California on Wednesday, May 5, 2010.[56] During the show, they debuted a new song titled "Soulmate".[57] In September 2010 McKagan left the band.

On September 25, 2010, Jane's Addiction performed a live set for "Guitar Center Sessions" on DirecTV. The episode included an interview with the band by program host, Nic Harcourt.[58]

On January 5, 2011, the band announced that they had recruited TV on the Radio guitarist and producer Dave Sitek as a replacement for Duff McKagan. Sitek was set to record the bass for the band's fourth studio album, entitled The Great Escape Artist.[59] On January 14, 2011, while talking about the recording of the new album, drummer Stephen Perkins mentioned that although Sitek was a "stabilizing force" for Jane's Addiction, and was to appear on the upcoming album, he was not the band's full-time bassist as was previously reported.[60] It was then confirmed that Sitek would not be touring with the band, which was set to promote the album on a summer tour, including headlining Reading and Leeds Festivals. These sets would later be cancelled due to Farrell's illness.[61] It was then announced that Chris Chaney would be the band's live bassist for some shows in 2011. On March 30, 2011, a song from The Great Escape Artist, titled "End to the Lies" was premiered on the Chilean radio station Radio Futuro, and was also performed at Lollapalooza Chile on April 3, 2011.[62] On April 8, "End to the Lies" was released via their website as free to download. On July 23, 2011 the band headlined the Gathering of the Vibes Music and Arts festival in Bridgeport, Connecticut. On August 3, 2011 the band released the second single entitled "Irresistible Force". The initial release date for new album was scheduled for September 27, 2011,[63] but was postponed until October. The Great Escape Artist was released on October 18, 2011.[64] In an interview with Jason Tanamor, guitarist Dave Navarro said, "This album is different because the band went in a new direction that we haven’t been in before but at the same time there are many familiar threads of where we used to come from. It’s an evolution from where we were but always remembering where we came from."[65]

Jane's Addiction launched their Theatre of the Escapists Tour in 2012 to a sold-out crowd at the 2,000 seat[66] Pageant Theatre in St. Louis, Missouri.

Dave Navarro and Perry Farrell

In February 2012, Perry Farrell discussed the possibility of releasing a follow-up to The Great Escape Artist while touring in support of the album, stating, "What I have not seen before is a group that's done a record, had somewhat of a theme – escapism – and then done a second record almost as if it was a follow-up movie. I want to do that. We have material left from The Great Escape Artist we didn't record. I'm very inspired to keep with the theme. Something's feeling right about it."[67]

In July 2012 Jane's Addiction headlined the inaugural Bunbury Music Festival in Cincinnati, Ohio. Also in 2012, the band contributed a cover of Sympathy for the Devil to Sons of Anarchy. This track also appeared on the soundtrack album Songs of Anarchy: Volume 2.[68][69] In December 2012, FUSE TV named Jane's Addiction single, "Underground", one of the top 40 songs of 2012.[70] In May 2013, the band performed at the Bottlerock Festival in the Napa Valley, along with the Violent Femmes, Macklemore, The Black Keys, Cake, Train, Blues Traveler, The Wallflowers, Kings of Leon, and more.[71]

The band released their live album, Live in NYC, on July 8, 2013, recorded during the "Theatre of Escapists" tour. On August 8, 2013, the band released a stream of a new single, "Another Soulmate".[72]

Jane's Addiction was awarded with the 2,509th star of the Hollywood Walk of Fame on October 30, 2013. Their star is located at 6436 Hollywood Boulevard.[73]

In January 2014, Perry Farrell stated that Jane's Addiction is on hiatus, and he is currently working on a new musical, "Kind Heaven".[74]

Jane's Addiction performed their debut album, Nothing's Shocking, at Brooklyn Bowl Las Vegas on May 8, 9 and 10, 2014, and again at O2 Academy Brixton on August 20 and O2 Apollo Manchester on August 21, 2014.

On July 15, 2016, Jane's Addiction performed on the Sterling Spoon Anniversary Tour for six shows in the US celebrating the 25th anniversary of Ritual De Lo Habitual and Lollapalooza. Special guests on the tour included Dinosaur Jr. and Living Colour.[75]

On February 6, 2020, ten seconds of a song entitled "Laughing Beats" (also referred to as "Embrace the Darkness") was played by Dave Navarro's guitar tech Dan Cleary on Rare Form Radio. The song was recorded with Eric Avery and produced by Trent Reznor in 2009, prompting speculation that the song could be released in full in the near future.[76]

On February 8, 2020, Jane's Addiction performed for the first time in over two years at a memorial show for Andrew Burkle, son of billionaire Ronald Burkle, who died in January 2020. The band was joined on stage by John Frusciante for "Mountain Song". Frusciante was there performing with the Red Hot Chili Peppers for the first time in 13 years after recently rejoining the band. Stephen Perkins also filled in for Chili Peppers drummer Chad Smith during their performance due to Smith being unable to attend due to an art show appearance.[77][78]

Musical style and legacy[edit]

A pioneer of alternative metal, Jane's Addiction is credited for the mainstream exposure of the alternative music scene in the 1990s.[79][80][81] The band is also associated with the funk metal genre.[82][83][84][85]

Emerging from Los Angeles' glam metal and goth scene,[79][86] Jane's Addiction's music contains elements of heavy metal, punk rock, folk, jazz fusion, funk rock, psychedelic rock and progressive rock.[81][86][87][88][89][90][91][92] The band's other prominent influences included '70s heavy metal, art rock,[93] post-punk and gender bending glam rock.[91] The band was also labeled as "funk-punk".[94] Their album, Strays was labeled as "nu metal",[95][96][97] a genre to which the band was a precursor.[98]

Jane's Addiction is regarded as one of the most influential acts in alternative music.[92] Tom Morello of Rage Against the Machine compared the band's influence to that of Nirvana.[99] Artists influenced by Jane's Addiction include Tool,[100] Korn,[101] The Smashing Pumpkins,[102] Limp Bizkit,[103] Candlebox,[104] P.O.D.,[105] Oceansize,[106] Paul Banks of Interpol,[107] Nothingface,[108] Stabbing Westward,[109] Incubus,[110] System of a Down,[111] and Strapping Young Lad.[112]

Talking about Ritual de lo habitual, Alice Cooper remarked, "I can spot traces of other people on this album, us included, but that's all they are: traces. They were a really original band. This is their peak album, where they really went out on a limb. Sometimes I get so caught up in these songs, I can actually feel the band pushing themselves to their limits. Sometimes I can't believe how strong it is. I wonder if this will have the same effect on some kid as Chuck Berry had on me ..."[113]

"Nothing's Shocking influenced me a lot, especially with what Eric Avery proposed from the bass," says Nick Oliveri, of Queens of the Stone Age, Kyuss and Mondo Generator. "Eric had written the music on his own, the guitars and the drums came later. So he inspired me on that side, it is very possible that they were the first really alternative band."[114]

Not all their contemporaries were impressed, however. "People can't be looking at things like Jane's Addiction as some sort of alternative," complained Sugar bassist David Barbe. "It's just corporate dick rock. It's Van Halen with different makeup artists."[115]

Side projects[edit]

Porno for Pyros[edit]

The band members pursued other projects in the 1990s. Farrell and Perkins formed another band, Porno for Pyros, and had some success with their two albums, Porno for Pyros (1993) and Good God's Urge (1996); meanwhile, Avery and Navarro formed Deconstruction and put out a self-titled one-off album in 1994. Dave Navarro joined the Red Hot Chili Peppers in 1993 and in the same year Stephen Perkins started a band named Banyan, with core members Nels Cline, Mike Watt, and Willie Waldman (with revolving studio guests). Banyan have released three albums as of 2008, their self titled-debut, Any Time at All and Live at Perkins Place.

During their second major split, the band were involved in a number of other projects. Navarro, Perkins, and Chaney formed a new band, The Panic Channel, with singer Steve Isaacs, who together released one album, titled (ONe), in 2006. Perry Farrell, together with his wife Etty Lau Farrell and Extreme guitarist Nuno Bettencourt, formed Satellite Party. The band signed with Columbia Records and released their debut album, Ultra Payloaded in 2007. Eric Avery signed with Dangerbird Records for the release of his solo album Help Wanted in 2008.

Band members[edit]

  • Perry Farrell – lead vocals, guitar, programming, keyboards, piano (1985–1991, 1997, 2001–2004, 2008–present)
  • Dave Navarro – guitar, acoustic guitar, keyboards, piano (1986–1991, 1997, 2001–2004, 2008–present)
  • Stephen Perkins – drums, percussion, steel pan (1986–1991, 1997, 2001–2004, 2008–present)
  • Chris Chaney – bass (2002–2004, 2011–present)

  • Chris Brinkman – guitar (1985–1986)
  • Matt Chaikin – drums (1985–1986)
  • Eric Avery – bass, acoustic guitar (1985–1991, 2008–2010)
  • Flea – bass (1997), trumpet (1988, 1997)
  • Martyn LeNoble – bass (2001–2002)
  • Duff McKagan – bass (2010)

Awards and nominations[edit]

Award Year Category Nominee(s) Result Ref.
BT Digital Music Awards 2004 Best Use of Mobile Jane's Addiction Flashmob Nominated [116]
Pollstar Concert Industry Awards 1988 Club Tour of the Year Tour Nominated [117]
1991 Best New Rock Artist Themselves Nominated [118]
Small Hall Tour of the Year Tour Nominated
1992 Most Creative Stage Production Nominated [119]
1998 Small Hall Tour of the Year Nominated [120]
2004 Most Creative Tour Package Nominated [121]
2010 Nominated [122]
Webby Awards 2012 Best Music Video Jane's Addiction Comes Alive Won [123]
Žebřík Music Awards 2003 Best International Surprise Themselves Nominated [124]

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Best Linux laptop for 2021: Which one should you buy?

If you're looking for a new laptop that ships with Linux pre-installed, read Jack Wallen's top five picks.

I remember, back in my early days of Linux, finding a laptop that could run the open-source operating system was tricky business. You might get a distribution to work with the video chipset. You might even find one that interacts with your soundcard. If you could manage to get wireless working, you were something special.

That was then, and this is a very different time. Now, you can find Linux pre-installed laptops all over the place. Companies like System76, Tuxedo Computers, Juno Computers, Dell, Lenovo and HP are all producing laptops that support or are even fully certified to run Linux.

In those early days, if you were to find a company that sold a laptop pre-installed with Linux, the choice was easy. Now? Not so much. With more and more companies selling even more devices, the choice has become a bit more complicated. I would say, however, that's a good problem to have.

But when you do have to make that decision, which laptop do you go with? Let's take a look at five possible entries, one of which is certain to meet (and exceed) your needs.

System76 Lemur Pro

The System76 Lemur Pro tops my list of Linux pre-installed laptops, not just because the machine is a beast, but because System76 support is the best I've ever experienced. The company cares not just about the products they create, but it cares for the users who purchase and use its hardware. Beyond the best-in-class support, this System76 laptop can be configured with either an Intel i5-1135G7 (at 4.2 GHz with four Cores, eight Threads, and 8MB of Cache) or an Intel i7-11657G (at 4.7 GHz with four Cores, eight Threads, and 12MB of Cache), 8-40GB of DDR4 RAM, and from a 240GB SSD to a 1TB PCIe Gen4 SSD. Claimed battery life is up to 14 hours, weight is 2.4 pounds, the chassis can be folded to 180 degrees, and the display is a 14.1″ 1920×1080 FHD with a matte finish. To make the Lemur Pro even more attractive, it includes open-source, embedded controller firmware and the open-source coreboot bootloader. Price starts at $1,299 and can be specced out to $2,897. The Lemur Pro ships with their in-house Pop!_OS, which is based on Ubuntu.

Tuxedo InfinityBook Pro 14

Another absolute beast of a laptop is the Tuxedo InfinityBook Pro 14. This laptop is all about business with a 16:10 Omnia display featuring 3K high resolution running at 2880 x 1800 resolution, a 16:10 aspect ratio, and an extremely thin bezel. The chassis is all magnesium, and the CPU is an Intel 11th gen Tiger Lake H35. Because of the heat generated by the CPU, this laptop includes two fans and two heatpipes to keep the system cool. You can optionally select an NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Ti GPU (with 4GB GDDR6 graphics memory) to turn the laptop into a powerful mobile gaming console. And with an oversized glass trackpad and backlit keyboard, your productivity will skyrocket. You can expect up to 12 hours of battery life from the InfinityBook Pro. As for ports, the device includes a Thunderbolt 4, and HDMI 2.0, two USB-A, a full-sized SD card reader, a headphone jack and mic input. The cost of the InfinityBook Pro 14 starts at just under $1,400 and can be configured up to around $3,500. The InfinityBook Pro can be purchased with either its default TUXEDO_OS (based on Ubuntu) or your choice of Ubuntu, Kubuntu or Ubuntu Budgie.

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Juno Computers Neptune 15 V3

The Juno Neptune 15 V3 is a beautiful laptop that is supercharged for whatever work (or play) you throw at it. What's truly amazing about the Neptune 15 is the graphics. You won't find a smoother display on a Linux laptop. The base unit ships with an NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 MAX-Q graphics chip with 8GB of GDDR6 memory. You can bump that up to an RTX 3080 with 16GB of GDDR6 memory for an even better experience. Either way, you'd be hard-pressed to find a better display on a Linux laptop. Speaking of base-model specs, the Neptune ships with an Intel i7 with eight Cores at 2.3 GHz, 16GB of SODIMM RAM, a 256 GB SSD drive, a backlit keyboard, three USB-A ports, both mic and headphone jacks, and a microSD card reader, and an ethernet jack. The base price is $2,199, but if you bump up the graphics card and RAM, you can get that baby up to $3,172.

Juno Computers

Dell XPS 13 Developer Edition

You'll find the Dell XPS 13 Developer Edition on just about every "best Linux laptop list" of the past few years. With good reason. This laptop is sleek. The carbon fiber chassis is to die for. In fact, you won't find a more elegant-looking piece of hardware on this list. That alone is worth the price of entry. Add an 11th-gen Intel i5 (at 4.2 GHz with an 8MB cache) up to an 11th-gen Intel i7 (at 5GHz with a 12MB cache) and that beautiful machine becomes a powerful workhorse in a very portable form factor. The base unit ships with Intel Iris Xe graphics, 8GB of LPDDR4x Memory, a 256 GB M.2 PCIe NVMe SSD, a 13.4" FHD+ (at 1920 x 1200) anti-glare display and a four-cell 52Whr battery. You can bump the specs up to 32GB of RAM, a 2TB SSD, and a UHD+ 3840 x 2400) touch screen display. The machine starts at $1059 up to $2419.99. The XPS 13 Developer Edition ships with Ubuntu.

KDE Slimbook 14

The KDE Slimbook is beautiful. The 17mm thin, silver magnesium case is reminiscent of many an ultrabook from back in the day. It's not the lightest on the list (coming in at 3.3 pounds), but it's rugged enough to pack around without much concern. And with KDE Plasma, the operating system is just as elegant as the hardware it runs on. The base KDE Slimbook ships with an AMD Ryzen 7 4800H with eight Cores and 16 Threads (up to 4.3GHz), 8GB 3200 MHz RAM,  and a 250GB SSD NVMe internal storage. The display is a 14-inch IPS LED cover 100 sRGB. As far as ports, you'll find two USB 3.0, one USB-C, one USB 2.0, one HDMI, and one RJ45. The OS that ships with the KDE Slimbook is KDE Neon. You can bump the specs up to 64GB of RAM, and a 2TB NVMe SSD drive. The base price is $988. Fully specced, the cost comes in at $1,977.

By Jack Wallen

Jack Wallen is an award-winning writer for TechRepublic, The New Stack, and Linux New Media. He's covered a variety of topics for over twenty years and is an avid promoter of open source. For more news about Jack Wallen, visit his website jackwallen....

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Recently uncovered hints point to Google Chrome on macOS having native Dark Mode capability soon, but it appears Windows 10 users won't be missing out on the feature after all.

According to previous reports, version 73 of Chrome is going to come with support for macOS 10.14's dark mode, complete with an alternative color scheme, similar to the incognito mode in terms of looks, for the entire user interface. The same kind of support is heading to the Windows version of the browser, although it appears the macOS version will come first.

Google Chrome Dark Mode On Windows

The above tidbit is courtesy of a bug report uncovered by Techdows, revealing that preliminary work has begun to bring the browser's Windows version its very own dark mode. However, unlike the implementation on macOS, Windows-side dark mode apparently has to be forcibly turned on with a command-line switch. Adding "--force-dark-mode" to the command line of current builds of Chrome 73 makes everything dark.

Dark mode for Chrome on macOS has top priority — "P1" — it looks like, so it shouldn't come as a surprise if it goes live first. The Windows implementation is only rated as "P2," which suggests it has lesser importance at the moment. That is certainly an odd setup, as there are more Chrome users on Windows 10 than on macOS.

How To Enable Dark Mode Right Now

For those who are too impatient to wait for the official rollout of dark mode support for Chrome on Windows, it's possible to change it now, albeit with a little bit of tinkering.

• First, download the latest version of Google Chrome Canary, an early-release, experimental version of Chrome on which planned features are typically tested.

• After completing the installation process, right click on the newly created shortcut on the desktop and choose "Properties."

• On the "Shortcut" tab, locate the Target selection, which should have text in. Add "-force-dark-mode" at the last part of the text, without the quotation marks.

• Click apply.

Open Google Chrome Canary and voilà! There's Dark Mode. Again, it's practically similar to Chrome's incognito mode, although they're slightly different in terms of the shades of gray and black.

Google has yet to announce when it will release Dark Mode support for macOS and Windows 10, but they're a relatively minor addition, so it probably won't take too long. In any case, make sure to check back with Tech Times as we learn more.

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11 Best Underrated Snapchat Features

Learn more about the most underused features that could totally step up your Snap game.
11 Best Underrated Snapchat Features
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You use Snapchat to keep your pals abreast of your every move, but are you really taking advantages of all its features? A Snapchat rep spoke to TeenVogue.com about the popular social media app and its most underused features. Ready to step up your Snap game? You've come to the right place.

1. Use more than one filter.

A tongue-wagging dog is cute and all, but it’s time to expand your filtering horizons. Once you add one geofilter, press and hold on the screen with one finger while you continue to swipe with another. So long as you’re not in filters that counteract each other, you can layer. Add the temperature, location, and speeds (as long as you're not in the driver's seat) to give your audience a full picture.

2. Create your own geofilter.

There are two different types: Community geofilters are free. They help you commemorate your high school, neighborhood, or something that will live indefinitely. While the Snapchat team needs to approve of them first (criteria includes its level of creativity and how often it will likely be used), it’s still a fun exercise. The community creates well over 50% of geofilters, according to a Snapchat spokesperson.

Alternatively, on-demand geofilters are a fun “party favor” for events. They cost as little as $5 and live for a shorter period of time. Use Illustrator, Photoshop, or Snapchat templates for weddings, celebrations, and birthdays. Map out where you want it to live and for how long, and the team will review it within one business day.

3. Save Snap to Memories.

You’re able to go back and share it to a new story. You can edit those snaps. Press and hold on the snap. Then tap the pencil to edit. From there, add and remove geofilters, text, and emojis. Ta da!

4. Autosave to Memories.

If you’re spending the day sightseeing and know you’ll be snapping along the entire way, save yourself the time and headache and make sure your snaps always save to Memories. Go to settings, Memories, and then Autosave.

5. Pin different objects.

There’s a whole world of pinning you haven’t been using. A fun surprise is to pepper the videos with 3D stickers, bitmojis, or emojis on a friend’s face. Once the snap has been taken and you’re still in preview mode, tap the screen, and a circle will indicate the app is about to pin an object. Swipe through a ton of cute designs. More info here.

6. Make calls.

Snapchat might be the new Skype. To start, open a chat bubble with a friend, then click on the phone icon to place a call. They can either opt to listen or join. If they aren’t available to respond, simply hold the phone icon down to leave a message. The camera icon performs the same function but with video. More info here.

7. Easily capture footage.

Sometimes that circle button on the app’s camera is far out of reach while trying to fit the whole squad in a selfie. To record video on iOS and Android, press and hold the volume button. Press once to take a photo.

8. Change a friend’s display name.

Rarely do we ever call our BFFs by their actual full names. Press and hold on a friend’s username, and a pop-up box will appear where their Snapscore lives. The settings gear on the top right will let you change their name.

9. Get birthday love.

Under Settings, then Birthday, include your birth date. The app won’t reveal your age, but it will notify contacts when it’s your birthday (prepare to receive some custom birthday snaps!). Also, that “Hey, what’s your sign?” line is a thing of the past. Friends will be able to see your sign (when they click on your name after you’ve viewed their Snap story, for example).

10. Commute easier.

Making plans tonight? Ask your friend for the address, and the app will hyperlink the text so you can click on it. A map will pop up showing you the exact destination.

11. Send Discover articles to friends.

Sharing is caring, but screenshotting every interesting bit of info you come across can load up your camera roll real fast. While in Discover, press and hold on an article to turn it into a Snap. Then send it to a friend.

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Harry Styles Sat Front Row at the Burberry Show Today, and Our Editors Captured the Whole Thing

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Way back in 2012, shortly after he ditched the saggy, baggy jeans and biker boots for snappier duds, Harry Styles snagged a coveted spot on Burberry's front row, and he's been a major London Fashion Week fixture since. Today's show, thank god (or Simon Cowell, or Lou Teasdale, or whomever can be credited for such things), was no exception.

Since Harry was noticeably absent at NYFW—particularly from his rumored-girlfriend's debut on the Marc Jacobs runway—we're especially thrilled he took a little time from his busy schedule of filming brilliantly hilarious music videos, winning super official style awards, and being adorable in Vines to make an appearance—or, because a girl can dream, two?—at the London collections.

Last season, he hit it out of the park (Hyde-Park, to be exact) in leopard, proving that real men don't wear pink—they wear animal print. This time around, he took a slightly more discreet, though no less dapper, tack wearing a beautiful suede trench coat (classic Burberry!) atop his signature black skinnies and beat-up Chelsea boots (classic Harry!).

The front rows at last week's NYFW were satisfyingly star-studded, from Hailee Steinfeld and Alexa Chung to Zendaya and Zosia Mament, and now we've had a stylish Styles sighting this season, but is it too much to hope the rest of the One Direction dudes will make a fashion week appearance? After all, there's still a handful of London shows to go, and Paris—which counts the boys' beloved Saint Laurent among its lineup—won't be kicking off for a few more days. Stay tuned!

Teen Vogue's EIC, Amy Astley, and Senior Fashion News Director, Jane Keltner de Valle, were both at the show to document the clothes—and Harry. Tough job, right?

Harry Styles's hair in all its glory making its way into the show.

Sittin' pretty in the front row next to Tinie Tempah and Alison Mosshart.

And the obligatory close-up. Because, c'mon.


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Oxford University embroiled in race row as students told to be 'vigilant' after black man seen in grounds

An email was sent out to all undergraduates at the college with a CCTV image
An email was sent out to all undergraduates at the college with a CCTV image

Oxford University has become embroiled in a race row after students received an email from staff telling them to be “vigilant” because a black man was seen walking through college grounds.

Harris Manchester College (HMC) has been accused of “despicable” double standards for urging undergraduates to “alert a member of staff” if the man is seen again - while white students and graduates frequently “wander around college” without triggering safety alerts.

Femi Nylander, a 22-year-old prominent Rhodes Must Fall activist, had worked in a friend’s office overnight after accidentally becoming locked in HMC’s grounds on Thursday evening.

Femi Nylander is a 22-year-old prominent Rhodes Must Fall activist

On Friday morning he was approached by college staff, and said they had a pleasant conversation about whether he planned to have breakfast.

However, later that day an email was sent out to all undergraduates at the college with a CCTV image of Mr Nylander attached, and a cautionary message reminding students to “maintain vigilance”.

Mr Nylander, who graduated from Oxford last summer after reading philosophy, politics and economics (PPE), said the email was an example of the university’s “institutional racism” and he called on the College to apologise.

Femi Nylander (left) graduated from Oxford University last summer, where he read PPE

“The colleges have hundreds of students – if a white person comes by they don’t say anything,” Mr Nylander said. “I have lots of white friends who are never stopped.”

He said he has been stopped and asked for identity documents by porters at Brasenose College and Magdalene College on his way to tutorials, and at St Hilda’s College where he had a play rehearsal.

Aliya Yule, an organiser of the university’s Campaign for Racial Awareness and Equality, said there was a similar issue recently where black students were repeatedly stopped and asked to provide identity documents when entering Christ Church College.

“This shows that there is still a problem with black students being seen as other, as security threats, as a danger,” Ms Yule, who is in her final year studying  PPE at Wadham College.

“Black students are seen as outsiders, not the kind of person you see here or would want to see here. They are treated with hostility.”

Femi Nylander stood outside All Souls College last year in protest against the Codrington Library's founder, Christopher Codrington due to his colonial links

Mr Nylander, who is currently editing a book about the Rhodes Must Fall movement, was a leading activist in the student campaign to have a statue of Cecil Rhodes removed due to his links to Britain's colonial past.

Last year he stood shirtless outside All Souls College with a chain around his neck and ‘All Slaves College’ painted on his chest in red paint to protest against the Codrington Library's founder, Christopher Codrington,  a plantation owner who amassed a fortune through the slave trade.

The email, sent to all HMC undergraduates by a college official, was posted on the Facebook group Race Matters, and prompted hundreds of responses from outraged students.

Students were sent an email urging them to "maintain vigilance"

The email said: “This is a serious reminder that this wonderful and safe environment in which we live and work can be taken advantage of.

“We must all do our bit to maintain vigilance against unauthorised persons in College. Attached is an image taken from our CCTV of a person discovered in College this morning.

“Seen previously, it had been thought his person was associated with All Souls College. This is not the case. If you see the person in the attached image, then please alert a member of College Staff.”

The message went on: “We are unaware of the intentions of this individual. Previous interactions with them have been amendable, so the College does not currently feel there is any level of danger, to either persons or property.”

A spokesperson for Harris Manchester College said they sent the email after being informed of an “unidentified person” on the grounds on Thursday night.

“CCTV footage showed that the same person, who was unknown to us, had entered Harris Manchester the following morning,” the spokesperson said.

“The email made clear that the individual in the photograph was not thought to present any danger, but we felt students should be aware of the matter.

“We have occasionally issued similar emails in the past when other unidentified people have entered the College."

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Modern luxury in an exclusive gated community near Marbella

Atalaya Fairways is a luxury urbanisation on the Costa del Sol that offers contemporary modern dwellings that were built to impress even the most demanding of customers. This stylish collection of high-class villas is situated in Benahavis just a few minutes from Puerto Banús and Marbella on the southern coast of Spain.

Modern luxury in an exclusive gated community near Marbella

Showcasing outstanding architecture and design features The Fairways is a truly exquisite property option aimed at the refined home owner or investor.

“There were just 15 villas built, which guarantees true exclusivity,” says Sofia, CEO of the company behind the project.

With 60 years’ experience of providing luxury villas – of which there are 30 in Marbella alone – the developers understand perfectly the needs of those looking to purchase luxury property in Andalucía. This is why each villa comes with a tasteful pool and gardens, solar panels, LED lighting, alarm system, under floor heating in the bathrooms and of course essential air conditioning.

The properties are situated in a perfectly quiet and reassuringly secure setting that is still only a stone’s throw away from the glitz, glamour and glistening seas of Marbella.

“The architecture, facilities and location of Atalaya Fairways make it a truly unique product,” said Sofia.

“Our clients are very demanding, knowledgeable and environmentally conscious with a high purchasing power. Many are businesspeople and directors of global enterprises.”

The Fairways certainly provides the ideal setting for a relaxed stay whether long term or short, and the villas appreciate outstanding views over the coast and feature an iPad-controlled home automation system.

Existing residents are generally very well travelled and are comprised of a mixture of interesting nationalities from Sweden, Norway, Belgium, Britain and Holland, as well as natives of Arab countries and Russia.

For those wanting true exclusivity combined with luxury, tranquilityand an elegant style, Atalaya Fairways is a must-see option that is guaranteed not to disappoint.

Originally published in September 2012, updated by Adam Neale in September 2018

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Neighbouring Nations Interfering in Somali Polls

Ethiopia is desperately trying to get Hassan Sheikh Mohamud re-elected as a president of Somalia. Its renewed agenda, however, goes against the wishes of the overwhelming majority of Somalis and members of the Somali Federal Parliament.

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Somalia’s outgoing Prime Minister, Omar Abdirashid Sharmarke, has accused neighbouring countries, particularly Ethiopia, of intervening in the country’s presidential elections.

By Farhan Jimale | BBC News,

Somalia’s outgoing Prime Minister, Omar Abdirashid Sharmarke, has accused the neighbouring countries of intervening in the country’s presidential elections.

MPs are due to elect the president later next week.

Mr Sharmarke, who’s also standing as a candidate, said at a press conference in the capital, Mogadishu, that Somalis “should be left to decide their own destiny independently”.

When asked by the BBC, he refused to name which countries he was talking about.

But analysts say that he is worried about Ethiopia’s political influence and military presence in the country and its support for incumbent President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud.

Ethiopia contributes soldiers to the 22,000-strong African Union force (AMISOM) in the country. Uganda, Djibouti and Kenya are among other contributors.

Mr Sharmarke, who is said to have support from Kenya in his political efforts, said the Somali parliament did not need any help when it came to choosing its leaders.

It’s a fact that Somalia is dependent on AMISOM in terms of security and I hope we will soon have our own national army, but it’s unfair that they take advantage of the security support they are giving us with a political agenda and supporting a particular candidate.”

Somali politics is also the deeply divided along clan lines – with President Mohamud representing the Hawiye clan and Mr Sharmarke the Darod clan.

So the PM may also be unhappy about a warning from an Ethiopian think tank last month that said Somalia was likely to be destabilised further if a non-Hawiye took over the presidency.

It is not something Somalia’s five clans agree about.

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There’s a simple logic to Ethiopia’s calculus: always work against the wishes of the Somali people by trying to impose your leadership choice upon them, because, as a deeply clannish, polarized and savage people, Somalis must be under the armpit of the enlightened Tigray junta in Addis Ababa.


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SpaceX Falcon 9 “fleet leader” returns to port after record reuse

Looking surprisingly indifferent to the experience, Falcon 9 booster B1049 successfully completed its seventh orbital-class mission when it returned to Port Canaveral on November 28th. (Richard Angle)

SpaceX is well and truly 70% of the way to a longstanding rocket reusability target after successfully launching and landing the same Falcon 9 booster on seven orbital-class missions.

Known as Falcon 9 B1049, the record-breaking rocket booster and new “fleet leader” safely returned to Port Canaveral aboard drone ship Of Course I Still Love You (OCISLY) on Saturday, November 28th. Aside from a minor hiccup and 24-hour delay from a vague need for “additional mission assurance,” Falcon 9’s seventh-flight debut was as flawless as ever, simultaneously marking the rocket’s 100th launch overall and 99th success after a decade of operation.

Crystallized in May 2018 and floated many times before by CEO Elon Musk in years prior, SpaceX’s primary goal for Falcon 9 reusability has been ten flights per booster with near-zero refurbishment between launches for several years. As such, Falcon 9 B1049’s latest success means that SpaceX is just three flights away from crossing that partly symbolic but still spectacular milestone.

Falcon 9 booster B1049 after flights six and seven, August and November 2020. (Richard Angle)

For as long as SpaceX and Musk have been transparent about their desire to implement reusability into orbital-class rockets, entrenched competitors like Arianespace and United Launch Alliance (ULA) have almost continuously responded with vague internal studies that conclude that changing their ways is counterproductive. Often, somewhat arbitrary figures arise, with ULA executives frequently falling back on the excuse that SpaceX-style reusability only makes financial sense if a booster fleet averages at least ten flights each.

Arianespace executives have echoed similar sentiments over the years and more recently implied that it would only ever make sense to invest in SpaceX-style reusability if the conglomerate could guarantee at least 30 launch contracts annually.

SpaceX process Falcon 9 B1046 after a record third launch and landing in December 2018. (Pauline Acalin)

Instead of complaining and splitting theoretical hairs for the better part of a decade, SpaceX simply started working. After many tries, the first successful Falcon 9 booster landing came in December 2015. ~15 months later, SpaceX reused an orbital-class rocket booster on a commercial mission for the first time ever. Another 14 months after that, Falcon 9 Block 5 debuted with a bevy of upgrades focused on reusability and reliability, and that same Falcon 9 booster became the first to launch on three orbital-class missions just seven months later.

Falcon 9 B1049 debuted in September 2018. 26 months later, the rocket has completed its seventh successful launch and landing, averaging one orbital satellite launch every ~110 days – an impressive feat for the fourth Block 5 booster ever built. Newer boosters like Falcon 9 B1058 are already improving on the records of their predecessors, managing an average of one launch every 60-80 days.

Falcon 9 B1049’s business end and landing legs are pictured here after flight #6 (Aug 2020) and flight #7 (Nov 2020). (Richard Angle)

Even if ten flights were to inexplicably become a permanent design limit for all Falcon operations, SpaceX’s current fleet of eight flight-proven Falcon 9 boosters would still be capable of singlehandedly supporting at least 54 more launches, with another 16 on top of that if two dormant Falcon Heavy side boosters are converted for single-core use. SpaceX is unlikely to stop producing Falcon boosters for at least another year or two, adding at least 6-10 more first stages to the fleet to support dozens of crucial Falcon 9 and Falcon Heavy launches over the next 5-10 years.

In simpler terms, it’s almost time for SpaceX’s competitors to move their goalposts again. If B1049 can mirror its 2020 average of one launch every ~80 days, the Falcon 9 booster could be ready for its tenth flight as early as Q3 2021 (with B1051 not far behind it).

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Anselm Feuerbach - By the Sea (Modern Iphigenia)

The story of Iphigenia is embedded in Greek mythology about the Trojan War.

Her father wants to sacrifice her to avoid disaster at sea. But the goddess Diana saves the girl and lets her serve as a priestess on Tauris. There, Iphigenia longs for her homeland. In the large-format version, Anselm Feuerbach shows the ancient figure as a modern human being. The heaviness of the contemporary clothing, Iphigenia's posture, and the dark colors of the painting radiate melancholy. The girl becomes the personification of longing

Before Feuerbach, no one had ever depicted Iphigenia gazing at the sea. He devoted himself to the subject for 17 years and constantly had his Italian lover Nanna pose as a model. Feuerbach did not use the original by Euripides as a model, but Goethe's stage play (1786). In it, Iphigenia is considered the ideal image of man.

In Feuerbach's monumental images of women, a fantasy of power is projected onto the woman, which can be interpreted as an expression of the fear of female sexuality. Through the women's movements in the late 19th century, a new danger emanated from the female sex for men. Inequality of opportunity and male supremacy were questioned for the first time. The story of Iphigenia is that of a strong and honorable woman. At the end of the narration, through honesty and courage, she is able to break an ancient curse and thus save her family.

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What a nightmare last weekend, with the dreadful gale force winds along the South Coast. Driftwood really took a battering from the strong winds, at times in excess of 50mph, just as it was starting to come alive for welcoming visitors over the next few weeks.

The only good point was, we were warned it would happen, so I was able to take appropriate precautions to minimise potential damage. I decided to fleece some of the more delicate plants, a palm and small acer included, to protect from the wind burn. I upturned heavy wooden garden furniture to give shield to the succulents around the summer house and in general it worked.

The only real damage is the badly wind-burnt fronds of the tall palms, which are just too big to fleece now. Some of the newly unfurled fronds of my many ferns are also looking a bit worse for wear, which is a real shame.

The weather has been so cold of late, meaning growth in general has been slow, so the leaves on the grape vine and fig tree had yet to fully come out, which protected them somewhat. Let’s hope summer is on its way.

You can catch me on BBC Radio Sussex, at about 1.10pm tomorrow, Sunday, talking with Joe Talbot on the Mid-Morning Show about the gardens opening for the National Garden Scheme in June.

I have a couple of lovely Gunnera manicata, commonly known as giant rhubarb, growing in large containers in the garden, around my pond. These are plants that can be both loved and admired but also feared. The key thing to remember is that the more feed and the more access to water you can give them the larger the rhizomes will grow and the bigger the leaves will become.

They are bog plants which like their roots in rich wet bogs which remain wet all year round. They happily colonise alongside lakes and streams where their gigantic umbrella-like leaves reflect splendidly in the water.

I’d always wanted one in my garden and when I inquired, I was told by a seller at Hampton Court a few years ago that they will adapt, so can be grown in large containers too. I didn’t need telling twice and bought a couple which I have now had for six years. In May, they produce fat chubby flower spikes 2ft-3ft in height which will produce red fruits by autumn. My two are only just coming alive. The leaves always look quite dramatic as they emerge and grow quite large, creating a wonderful backdrop to the pond area.

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Conservative Degeneracy Watch

A reader writes:

David Frum didn't really argue that a meth-snorting homophobe who for three years cheated on his wife with a male prostitute while at the same time denouncing gay relationships is more moral than an openly gay man, did he?  Oh yes he did.

Kathryn Lopez didn't really call the piece "excellent," did she? Oh yes she did.

And to think, some people think of the GOP as unhinged or homophobic.

How on earth did anyone get that idea?


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Crunching the Numbers

Here's an attempt to find a correlation between coalition troops levels and Iraqi violence. It's hard to find any. But that could merely mean that we never saw anything like the massive force that would have a real impact. I fear merely adding 20,000 troops will be insufficient - within the parameters already tried and already failed. Adding 100,000 would be different. But we don't have 100,000 easily transferred. Given limited resources, what should we do? Bruce Rolston argues for adding 8,000 more troops to Afghanistan instead. His argument is worth listening to.


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Maybe Don’t Blow Up Satellites in Space

Just look at the trouble the debris from Russia’s missile test already caused for the International Space Station.

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The astronauts were still asleep when NASA called the International Space Station. “Hey, Mark, good morning. Sorry for the early call,” a mission controller said in the early hours of Monday morning, speaking with Mark Vande Hei, one of four NASA astronauts on board. But the astronauts needed to get up, mission control said calmly, and move to the spacecraft docked to the station. They needed to be prepared to potentially escape and head back to Earth. This was an emergency.

NASA had just received word that a satellite had shattered into pieces. The cloud of debris was about to pass dangerously close to the space station, and everyone on board—four American astronauts, two Russian cosmonauts, and one German astronaut—had to hunker down.

The satellite, it turned out, was a Soviet machine from the 1980s. Russia had decided to blow it up in a test of the country’s anti-satellite technology. When the missile strike destroyed the satellite, the impact produced more than 1,500 fragments large enough to be tracked with military resources, and likely hundreds of thousands more too small to detect.

When something breaks this high up in space, the shards don’t just sit around. Like the ISS, the cloud of space junk loops around Earth. And the space station, officials realized, intersected with the orbit of that junk every 90 minutes. Remember that scene in Gravity where space debris pummels Sandra Bullock and her fellow astronauts while they’re working on the Hubble Space Telescope? That was a worst-case representation of what can happen when the orbit of spacefarers and the orbit of space junk overlap.

The ISS crew floated into their transport capsules around 2 a.m. eastern and didn’t emerge for about two hours, according to NASA. Although the debris continued to zoom past them after that, experts at NASA determined that the astronauts could relax a bit. “The chances of losing ISS are small,” Jonathan McDowell, an astronomer at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics who is well known in the space community for his expert monitoring of low-Earth orbit, told me. “The chances of a minor debris hit may be large”—a piece of debris might slice a hole in one of the space station’s solar panels, for instance. Not great, but not catastrophic either. Phew.

On Tuesday afternoon, mission control in Houston was still warning astronauts about upcoming passes of the debris cloud. But the crew seemed to be taking the situation in stride. Let us know if things are getting worse, Vande Hei told mission control yesterday, but otherwise “we’ll go on with the day.” Today, the live feed for ISS communications is a hum of business-as-usual. They’re fine.

But what about, you know, space? Particularly the part where all of this junk is now hurtling around. Is everything okay up there?

The space experts I spoke with all characterized this week’s situation as, well, bad. No one wants “a debris-generating event in outer space,” as U.S. officials put it on Monday. Close passes between satellites can happen, and they’ve become more common in recent years. Two years ago, for example, a European Space Agency satellite was forced to dodge a SpaceX internet satellite. Everyone has to simply watch their own flank: Without an international system monitoring satellite traffic, satellite providers are stuck literally emailing each other when they anticipate an uncomfortably close pass. In some cases, reaching out is a challenge. Bill Gerstenmaier, a vice president at SpaceX, said at an industry conference yesterday that while SpaceX notifies the ISS about any close approaches of its internet satellites, the company isn’t sure how to contact Tiangong, the Chinese space station, which currently has a crew of three.

Sure, space is big, but low-Earth orbit, where the ISS and many satellites reside, is not as spacious as we might think. The space above us is, remarkably, a finite resource, with a theoretical limit to how much it can hold. The concept is called “orbital carrying capacity.” Specific parameters have not been formally defined, but the basic idea is that someday we could exceed this capacity when certain bands of orbit become so crowded with new and defunct satellites that they become difficult to navigate. For now, orbital carrying capacity might sound like a joke about carry-on restrictions for outer space, but as more companies launch satellites—not just one or two, but whole “mega-constellations,” as they’re called—the question is becoming a real concern.

Anti-satellite tests only make the situation worse. Russia, the United States, China, and India have all carried out such tests. The most recent display, by India in 2019, produced hundreds of pieces of debris, but at a low-enough altitude that nearly all of the junk eventually plunged into Earth’s atmosphere and disintegrated. But debris from tests like the one Russia just carried out can stick around. The collision risk for objects in low-Earth orbit, McDowell said, has now increased “for the next few months and probably years.” Just last week, the ISS had to shift itself to avoid colliding with a piece of debris from a Chinese test in 2007.

What makes the latest test particularly unnerving is that Russia shares the ISS with the United States. American astronauts and Russian cosmonauts worked together to build the station, piece by piece, in orbit. The two countries have plenty of Earth-bound disagreements, but the space station is supposed to remain above them, literally and figuratively. And then here comes Russia, blowing up a satellite and forcing astronauts into their emergency procedures.

U.S. defense officials have criticized the Russian test as “reckless and irresponsible.” NASA Administrator Bill Nelson said in a statement, “It is unthinkable that Russia would endanger not only the American and international partner astronauts on the ISS, but also their own cosmonauts.” Russian officials have denied accusations that the test threatened the space-station crew, and Dmitry Rogozin, the head of Roscosmos, the Russian space agency, tweeted yesterday that he had spoken with Nelson by phone and they’re working together to move forward.

There aren’t really rules for navigating this awkward situation. An international treaty for outer space exists, but it has no penalties for using space weapons such as anti-satellite missiles. “There is no internationally agreed-upon set of behaviors that we can point to when someone does something that could be potentially harmful,” Victoria Samson, a military-space expert at the Secure World Foundation, an organization that focuses on issues of space sustainability, told me. And despite strong words from U.S. officials about the latest Russian test, the American government has been reluctant to lobby for strong regulations, because the country has anti-satellite weapons of its own. Right now, anyone can, in theory, blow something up in space and produce plumes of debris that threaten anyone else who happens to be up there. “It is a very bad trend to make it acceptable to deliberately create large amounts of debris on orbit, because that debris is agnostic as to who or what it hits,” Samson said.

A day like Monday can make us see the International Space Station—any space station—for what it truly is. When everything is fine, the ISS can seem almost cozy, like a big house where astronauts live and work and sleep. When something is off, the ISS suddenly becomes a fragile metal tube of breathable air suspended in nothingness. Even on a normal day, the space station is a place where, as Leland Melvin, a retired NASA astronaut, once put it to me, “you know that if Yuri does something wrong, or I do something wrong, or Peggy does something wrong, we can all die.”

On Monday, when the crew was roused from its sleeping bags, three of the American astronauts and the German astronaut took shelter in the SpaceX spacecraft that had delivered them to the station just days earlier. Vande Hei, the fourth American, sheltered with the two Russian cosmonauts in a Russian Soyuz spacecraft that had arrived in April. Astronauts and officials alike have said many times in the past that the ISS has managed to weather all kinds of geopolitical kerfuffles, including the Crimea invasion and election meddling. But the latest situation is different. How do you tiptoe around the topic of one of your officemate’s bosses blowing a satellite to bits, with seemingly no regard for their safety—or yours?


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The British Herpetological Society

Herpetological Journal article gets national press coverage!

The paper on declining adder populations in the UK ( published in HJ , Vol  29 Number 1)  has received  national coverage both in newspapers - Guardian, Times , Telegraph, Daily Express  - and on radio.   A summary of the study findings has also just been published in Science, both in the online and printed magazine editions.

The paper has been published in the HJ as open access, so can be viewed or downloaded here: Adder population decline in the UK

The Science article can be seen here : Science magazine