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How long have humans used plants as drugs? A Moroccan cave holds clues

4 mn readThe earliest evidence for the use of plants as drugs—possibly for medication or a pick-me-up—may have been found amid human remains in a 15,000-year-old cave burial in North Africa. According to a study published this month in Scientific Reports, researchers discovered berry-like seed cones from the shrub genus Ephedra in an ancient burial pit at […]

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The surprising strategies animals use to survive the winter

4 mn readWhile we can simply throw on a sweater or turn up the heat, wild animals must have strategies to make it through the winter months. Take spiders. Many ground-dwelling North American species, such as wolf spiders, get through the winter by burrowing in the soil, under leaf litter, or inside logs.  “The difference in temperature between a frozen […]

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Native artists are breaking boundaries beyond ‘Indian’ art labels, making their own paths

6 mn readFlat-roofed homes with exterior walls hand-stacked from western New Mexico’s signature buff, mud-plastered limestone cluster around the central plaza in this Laguna Pueblo town.  One is more than 300 years old, a structure that has been repaired and added to with modern concrete blocks. An electric line snakes in from a nearby pole, and a […]

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2025: Embracing That We Don’t Have The Future Of Work Figured Out

4 mn read2025 is not the year we solve the future of work. It’s the year we finally embrace that we don’t have all the answers—and start building a new way forward. The world of work today feels like an incomplete puzzle—an intricate set of pieces that we know belong together but don’t yet have a picture […]

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How Cisco Boosted Hiring Of Workers Without College Degrees

5 mn readAs talent leaders prepare for the incoming Trump Administration, and concerns rise about what that will mean for diversity, equity and inclusion efforts within their workforces, I suspect employers’ focus on skills-based hiring strategies will only continue to grow. The increasingly popular efforts—in which college degrees are eliminated from certain hiring requirements in lieu of […]

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Stripe’s Bet On Crypto Reveals Shifting Payment Landscape

3 mn readIn a move that might appear modest on the surface but carries profound implications for the future of global payments, Stripe has acquired Bridge, a startup specializing in stablecoin payment infrastructure, for approximately $1.1 billion. While Bridge’s current metrics, with revenue some market participants estimate to be at $10-12 million, might raise eyebrows at the […]

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