Photo: Pond5 There’s an upside to winter’s dark, chilly days: ice skating, skiing and snowboarding. The crisp air and soft, powdery snow (or sheets of smooth ice) provide the perfect mood boost — and a reason to get outside. Plus, the thrill of speeding down the slopes and pirouetting on …

Humans first arrived in North America 10,000 years earlier than previously thought, according to an analysis of ancient animal bones found in northern Yukon, Canada. Top: cut marks on a horse mandible from Bluefish Cave II; the specimen is dated to 19,650 years before present; the bone surface is a …

A team of marine biologists from Scripps Institution of Oceanography and the Western Australia Museum has captured on video the first-ever field sighting of the recently-discovered species of seadragon — the ruby seadragon (Phyllopteryx dewysea). The ruby seadragon (Phyllopteryx dewysea) in the Recherche Archipelago, Western Australia. The inset shows a …

Website traffic is one of those metrics small business owners use to determine if their website is “working” — along with the number of inquiries, leads or sales they get from it. Traffic is also a metric that gets a lot of hype; you can find millions of articles explaining …

Gary Illyes from Google has written a blog post named What Crawl Budget Means for Googlebot. In it, he explains what crawl budget is, how crawl rate limits work, what is crawl demand and what factors impact a site’s crawl budget. First, Gary explained that for most sites, crawl budget …

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For fashionistas who are also avid readers, the upcoming season offers ample opportunity to disappear into the pages of an intriguing new read. With dropping temperatures, it’s tempting to curl up by the fireplace with a warm drink and a book which can offer you sartorial inspiration all season long. …

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Part five of Mdw Ntr (Hieroglyphic) writing by Ankh Mi Ra, author of Let The Ancestors Speak in Houston, TX MOCHA-Versity CEO: Asar Imhotep.