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A group of paleontologists from the University of Queensland and James Cook University has documented the most diverse assemblage of dinosaur tracks in the world on the north-western coast of Western Australia. Dinosaur tracks in the Walmadany area, Western Australia. Image credit: Steve Salisbury. At least 48 dinosaurian tracksites were …

Just last October at the Street Fight Summit, many marketers ranked voice search as the most “over-hyped” marketing tactic of the year. I think this is because many of them aren’t seeing the full scope of the technology. We’re putting on our consumer brains and thinking about the current awkwardness of speaking to …

According to a new study published in The Lancet, the Tsimane (pronounced chee-MAH-nay) — an indigenous people of lowland Bolivia — have the lowest reported levels of coronary artery disease of any population recorded to date, with coronary atherosclerosis being five times less common than in the United States. Tsimane …

Today’s customer operates in a ‘post-digital’ world, where the boundaries between physical and digital have disappeared. Empowered customers demand more from brand relationships, and expect an experience that is personal, relevant, and technologically seamless at every touchpoint. To stay on top in this fiercely competitive world your marketing organization needs …

An international team of paleontologists from the Nordic Center for Earth Evolution and the Swedish Museum of Natural History has unearthed uniquely well-preserved fossils of 1.6 billion-year-old crown-group rhodophytes (red algae). Ramathallus lobatus. Image credit: S. Bengtson et al, doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.2000735. The extraordinarily preserved fossils came from phosphorite deposits at …

Tatiana Maslany proved she’s more than just a TV actress last night at the Canadian Screen Awards, as she picked up two trophies. Everyone expected she’d win for the hit TV series Orphan Black of course, after all she’d won in the previous three years as well for the role, but …

MLB commissioner Rob Manfred, who is in Japan for the WBC, shot those reports down this week. The biggest knock against the WBC over the years has been MLB player participation. Even without the best of the best, the WBC is still very popular, if not in the USA than …

Since yesterday morning, the SEO industry has been watching an unconfirmed Google ranking update that seems to target more of the link quality aspects of the overall algorithm. Many are calling this the Fred Update, a name we’re also adopting. That came from Google’s Gary Illyes, who has jokingly suggested …

The newly announced i.Con “smart condom” is the odds-on heavyweight contender for terrible idea of the week. It is not smart, and it is not a condom, and those are only two of the many facepalm-inducing problems with this product. You can only loosely call it a product, anyway, because …

Gravity is a good thing when it keeps you firmly planted on Earth’s surface, but it’s quite a nuisance when you’re trying to launch things into space. The economics of space launches are harsh; every ounce sent up has an astronomical cost attached, but the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) …