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A team of researchers from McMaster University and elsewhere has carried out a phylogeographic study of the extinct American mastodon (Mammut americanum) based on 35 newly-sequenced mitochondrial genomes. Their findings suggest that American mastodons repeatedly expanded into northern latitudes in response to interglacial warming. Artistic rendering of American mastodons (Mammut …

  Wikipedia is, in my opinion, one of the most successful ventures devoted to the dissemination of knowledge on the entire internet. It isn’t perfect — no encyclopedia or institution is — but it has had a profound effect on the decentralization of knowledge over the past two decades. Some …

Small businesses (SMBs) are now in a Darwinian struggle for survival. The fallout from the COVID-19 pandemic is completely disrupting and reconfiguring the market, with some SMBs adapting and others calling it quits. This will have big implications for marketing and advertising as well. In its Q2 economic report, Yelp …

Archaeologists Find Traces of Non-Tobacco Plant in Pre-Columbian Native American Pipe The 1,430-year-old basalt pipe from central Washington State, the United States, not only contained nicotine, but also had strong evidence for the smoking of the Indian tobacco (Nicotiana quadrivalvis) and the smooth sumac (Rhus glabra). Until now, the use …

Recommends 10,000 Steps a Day or About Five Miles of Walking Walking is relatively easy and it is key to your good health.  The American Heart Association recommends 10,000 steps a day (about five miles of walking).Does that sound like a lot?  It might actually not be necessary to walk …

A few decades ago, the TV was the undisputed hub of entertainment in virtually all US households. A new study from the government’s Energy Information Agency (EIA) shows that Americans own fewer TVs on average than they did just a few years ago. In fact, the number of households with …

Greene, who first attended the Urban Youth Academy in Compton, Calif., when he was 7, also represents Major League Baseball’s potential star role model in its battle to reverse the industry’s scarcity of African-American players. Greene will be the centerpiece this weekend in Major League Baseball’s inaugural Dream Series in …

Decades have passed since Naomi Sims, the first African-American supermodel, made the cover of Life magazine in 1969 and Beverly Johnson was the first black woman on the cover of Vogue in 1974, but African-American models remain underrepresented. Find out more about some of the most successful African-American models, from …

According to a new study by Florida State University researchers, Native Americans were keeping eastern wild turkeys (Meleagris gallopavo silvestris) as early as 1200 – 1400 CE. A wild turkey (Meleagris gallopavo). Image credit: Vince Pahkala / CC BY-SA 3.0. Researchers knew that turkeys had been a part of Native …

According to new research, American alligators (Alligator mississippiensis) have remained virtually untouched by evolutionary change for at least 8 million years — up to 6 million years older than previously thought. American alligator (Alligator mississippiensis). Image credit: Gareth Rasberry / CC BY-SA 3.0. “If we could step back in time …