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Found in Translation India has almost 800 different languages. Here’s how artificial intelligence is trying to bridge the communication gap — Paradigm Shift is a a multimedia series brought to you in partnership with Microsoft India. Continued here

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6 qualities that will get you hired, no matter the job “If you read the job ads,” Forbes columnist Liz Ryan writes, “you’d think that employers are strictly looking for people with very specific types of experience.” But “once you get to a job interview, the whole picture changes. Employers are looking for qualities in their new hires that are never listed in the job ad.” Continued here

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Ian Mackay's going 8.5 mph in a wheelchair, on a road with no limits - Sports Illustrated Long into the year’s shortest night, muted light plays tricks on heavy eyes, and repetition can deceive a tired mind. Six times this group has completed the 12.29-mile counterclockwise loop: always south alongside the Willamette River, east past the pumpkin patch, north along the Columbia River before curling west near Sturgeon Lake and running south by the dairy farm and the cabbage patch, across the Gilbert River, and then, finally, back to base camp at the Sauvie Island Community Church parking lot. Continued here

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The Differences Between Anxiety and Depression (and When to Get Help) Even though we’ve made strides in the fight against mental health stigma, it can still be a struggle for people to get the help they need when it comes to depression and anxiety. Part of that is because of the lack of mental health literacy in the U.S. A 2021 study that analyzed this topic during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic found that mental health literacy among American adults is poor, and that individuals are not able to readily identify mental health symptoms and appropriate treatment options. Continued here

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How We Misunderstand Anxiety and Miss Out on Its Benefits - Neuroscience News What is neuroscience? Neuroscience is the scientific study of nervous systems. Neuroscience can involve research from many branches of science including those involving neurology, brain science, neurobiology, psychology, computer science, artificial intelligence, statistics, prosthetics, neuroimaging, engineering, medicine, physics, mathematics, pharmacology, electrophysiology, biology, robotics and technology. Continued here

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The Elusive Future of San Francisco's Fog Every summer, fog breathes life into the Bay Area. But people who pay attention to its finer points, from scientists to sailors, city residents to real estate agents, gardeners to bridge painters, debate whether there is less fog than there used to be, as both science and general sentiment suggest. Continued here

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How a High School Teacher Changed Early 20th-Century Insect Science On a crisp autumn morning in 1908, an elegantly dressed African American man strode back and forth among the pin oaks, magnolias, and silver maples of O’Fallon Park in St. Louis, Missouri. After placing a dozen dishes filled with strawberry jam atop several picnic tables, biologist Charles Henry Turner retreated to a nearby bench, notebook and pencil at the ready. Continued here

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How Many Errorrs Are in This Essay? - The Millions Technically known as “sorts,” the letters a print setter used were crafted from copper and stored like tiny inked seeds in a wooden case. Capitalized letters were kept in the top portion (hence “upper case”) and those that weren’t were stored in the bottom (thus “lower case”). Carefully fastened into an iron composing stick, the printer would spell out words and sentences which would be locked into a wood-frame galley and then organized into paragraphs and pages. Arranging sorts was laborious, and for smaller fonts, such as those used in a Bible, the pieces could be just a millimeter across. Long hours and fatigue, repetitive motion and sprained wrists, dim light and strained eyes—mistakes were inevitable. The King James Version of the Bible has exactly 783,137 words, but unfortunately for the London print shop of Robert Barker and Martin Lucas, official purveyors to King Charles I, their 1631 edition left out three crucial letters, one crucial word—”not.” As such, their version of Exodus 20:14 read, “Thou shalt commit adultery.” Their royal patron was not amused. This edition was later deemed the “Wicked Bible.” Continued here

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NFL Power Rankings: Who Is Hot Heading Into Week 1? The Ringer’s NFL Power Rankings are back, and for the inaugural list of the 2022 season, we’ve broken the league into tiers—from the teams on a championship course to those who should probably start planning for next year Continued here

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Roger Federer's Beautiful Game From its beginnings, on the close-trimmed greenswards of Victorian England, tennis was prized for its beauty, or, anyway, its potential for evincing it. Among English élites of the eighteen-seventies, when lawn tennis caught on, there was a fascination with the culture of ancient Greece: its sculpture, its plays and poems, its prizing of (male) youthfulness, its aestheticizing of the human body in motion. Lawn tennis—originally introduced, by its inventor, Major Walter Wingfield of His Majesty's Body Guard, as "sphairistike," ancient Greek for "skill in playing ball"—quickly supplanted croquet as the weekend game on estates and at private clubs such as Wimbledon's All England Croquet Club. With tennis, you moved. There were moments of gracefulness, even loveliness. With tennis, as Matthew Arnold declared of Hellenist gymnastics in his high-Victorian manifesto, "Culture and Anarchy," there was, as there was not with a croquet mallet in hand, the possibility of pursuing a sport with a "reference to some ideal of complete human perfection." Continued here

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The Number Ones: Madonna's "Music" Madonna is a survivor. That’s true in the most obvious and literal sense; she’s the only member of the Holy Trinity of ’80s pop who’s still alive today. It’s also true in every other way. When Madonna scored her 12th and final #1 hit in 2000, her former peers Michael Jackson and Prince had been absent from the chart’s upper reaches for years. That doesn’t make Madonna better than Michael Jackson or Prince; you would strain all bounds of credulity if you tried to argue that she’s somehow a superior musician to Prince. But that long string of chart-toppers is a true testament to Madonna’s drive, her hunger, and her ability to understand the moment. While Michael Jackson was disappearing into his self-created bubble and Prince was increasingly playing to his cult, Madonna was still trying to make hits. And she was succeeding. Continued here

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The Celebrity Profile, from Piaf to Kardashian One morning in 1957, Truman Capote arrived at the Miyako Hotel, in Kyoto, to interview Marlon Brando. The press-shy star was in Japan shooting “Sayonara” for Warner Bros. The film’s director, Joshua Logan, had got wind of Capote’s plans and, upon seeing the diminutive, piccolo-voiced writer at the front desk, picked him up like a disobedient poodle and plunked him outside. Capote returned later with a bottle of vodka and found Brando in his hotel room, surrounded by dirty socks and hangers-on and books about Buddhism. Left alone with Capote, Brando inhaled apple pie and cigarettes and talked—about his “inability to love,” about how he was doing “Sayonara” for the money, about his alcoholic mother—and Capote listened. He left at two in the morning. Continued here

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How to make Belgian waffles – recipe | Felicity Cloake's Masterclass An ancient festive food that still feels like a special occasion today, the Belgian waffle is all too often a mere spongy mattress for mountains of whipped cream and syrupy sauce, when it deserves to be the main attraction. It might not be Monday-morning fare, but at the weekends, or on holiday, a hot waffle is a tradition worth celebrating. Continued here

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Of meat and men: why the American barbecue is about friendship not food You can smell the contest long before you can see it. Acres of slowly smoking meat produce a savoury haze over south-west Tennessee. The 2022 Memphis in May World Championship Barbecue Cooking Contest drew more than 200 teams from around the world to compete for a share of $145,000 in prize money. The event also attracted upwards of 30,000 spectators who were compelled to play Tantalus: they could see glistening whole hogs, smoked until they’re the colour of a desert sunset. They could smell burnished mahogany slabs of ribs and shoulders, blackened by smoke on the outside but juicy within. But they could not taste any of them. Health regulations prevent the public chowing down. That privilege is reserved for teams, their friends and judges. Continued here

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25 of Wirecutter's Favorite Board Games and Toys If you’re looking for a little family fun, it’s time to break out the board games and interactive toys. Whether you’re looking for games to play on date nights or toys to occupy your little ones, we’ve got picks for every kind of player. Scroll down for some of our favorite board games and toys. Continued here

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Help! My Husband Says It's Part of His Mom's "Culture" to Comment on My Weight. It's hard to stand up to her. Continued here

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Unboxing, bad baby and evil Santa: how YouTube got swamped with creepy content for kids Harry Jho worked out of a 10th-storey Wall Street office, in which one corner was stacked with treadmill desks and another was filled with racks of colourful costumes and a green screen for filming nursery rhymes. He worked as a securities lawyer. With his wife, Sona, Jho also ran Mother Goose Club, a YouTube media empire. Continued here

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American Democracy Was Never Designed to Be Democratic To look on the bright side for a moment, one effect of the Republican assault on elections—which takes the form, naturally, of the very thing Republicans accuse Democrats of doing: rigging the system—might be to open our eyes to how undemocratic our democracy is. Strictly speaking, American government has never been a government “by the people.” Continued here

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Inside the War Between Trump and His Generals In the summer of 2017, after just half a year in the White House, Donald Trump flew to Paris for Bastille Day celebrations thrown by Emmanuel Macron, the new French President. Macron staged a spectacular martial display to commemorate the hundredth anniversary of the American entrance into the First World War. Vintage tanks rolled down the Champs-Élysées as fighter jets roared overhead. The event seemed to be calculated to appeal to Trump—his sense of showmanship and grandiosity—and he was visibly delighted. The French general in charge of the parade turned to one of his American counterparts and said, “You are going to be doing this next year.” Continued here

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Rail route of the month: the slow train from France to Spain Travellers in a rush to reach Spain head for the Gare TGV, which opened in 2001. It is a good way south of the city centre in Courtine, a new suburb that was once a watery wasteland between the Durance and Rhône rivers. From that rather sterile out-of-town station, a high-speed train leaving at 8.40am gets to the Spanish capital by mid-afternoon. Continued here

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A paradise for walkers: Germany is home to more than 150 long-distance hiking trails The morning sun is shimmering through the forest as my wife, Melanie, and I shuffle upward along the extremely rewarding Himmelsleiter (sky ladder) hiking route near Heidelberg Castle. Verdant rolling hills frame the refurbished brownstone ruins of the palace grounds. Our increasingly laboured breathing is the rhythmic bass drum to our march, with our fully packed rucksacks making us earn each step. Moses, our pint-sized rescue pup, runs up and down the mossy stones with enviable ease. Continued here

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Why economists are flocking to Silicon Valley For more than a decade Facebook, now known as Meta, has awarded fellowships to promising graduate students working on cutting-edge research. The prize, which this year comes with up to two years’ worth of university tuition and a $42,000 stipend, has gone to computer scientists, engineers, physicists and statisticians. Now it has gone to an economist. “I was not expecting it,” says Jaume Vives i Bastida, the lucky recipient working on a phd at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (mit). Continued here

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Union leaders frustrated by Bank of Canada's advice for companies not to adjust wages to inflation At an event hosted by the Canadian Federation of Independent Business in July, Mr. Macklem said that companies should not expect inflation to remain high. “Don’t build that into longer term contracts. Don’t build that into wage contracts. It is going to take some time, but you can be confident that inflation will come down.” Continued here

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Walking can lower risk of early death, but there's more to it than number of steps, study finds | CNN Accumulating more steps per day may be associated with a lower risk of cancer, heart disease and early death, and walking at a faster pace may provide additional benefits, a new study finds. Continued here

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Discipline is Destiny: 25 Habits That Will Guarantee You Success - RyanHoliday.net Self-discipline is one of those special things that is both predictive and deterministic. It both predicts that you will be great, AND it makes whatever you are doing great. It is not a means to an end. It is not just something we value until we get something we think we might really value—this job title, that amount of money, winning the biggest game, landing the best opportunity. Continued here

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Help! All My Lazy Friends Think Being "Gifted" Is What Held Them Back. "Instead of scrolling Instagram, consider reading?" Continued here

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The Millennial Vernacular of Fatphobia Twenty eight years ago, I was sitting on the dusty rose carpeting of my childhood bedroom, staring at the cover of the latest issue Seventeen. This particular issue isn’t available on eBay, and only certain articles from inside have been digitized, so I can’t tell you the exact wording of the Editor’s Note, but others have a similar memory of its contents: look at this non-model on the cover, which I interpreted as look at this non-ideal body on the cover. Continued here

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Tim Cook revealed the real reason Apple won't fix green bubbles At Vox Media’s Code conference, an attendee told Cook that it was difficult for him to send videos to his mom because Apple devices don’t support RCS, the texting protocol championed by Google and supported by major phone carriers. Cook, in response, suggested the attendee buy his mom an iPhone. “I don’t hear our users asking that we put a lot of energy in on that at this point,” Cook said. Continued here

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5 Best Apps to Organize Your Life (That Aren't Notion) Getting yourself a tool to organise your life can be life-changing. Personally, it helps me be less stressed out about figuring out what to focus on. When I've had lots of projects, sometimes it would take me half an hour just to pick where to start. These tools give me more confidence / less stress, knowing I'm spending time on what's important… Continued here

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Everyone knows what YouTube is -- few know how it really works YouTube has always been fascinating to me because it’s such a black box — everyone feels like they know how the platform works, but very few people have a real understanding of the internal politics and tradeoffs that actually drive YouTube’s decisions. Mark’s book is one of the best of its kind I’ve read — not only does he take you inside the company, but he connects the decisions made inside YouTube to the creators who use the platform and the effects it has on them. Continued here

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China Discovers Stunning Crystal on the Moon, Nuclear Fusion Fuel for Limitless Energy The crystal is part of a batch of lunar samples collected by China’s Chang’e-5 mission, which landed on the Moon in 2020, loaded up with about four pounds of rocks, and delivered them to Earth days later. After carefully sifting through the samples—which are the first Moon rocks returned to Earth since 1976—scientists at the Beijing Research Institute of Uranium Geology spotted a single crystal particle, with a diameter smaller than the width of a human hair. Continued here

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The Past, Present and Future of Robotic Surgery After decades of merely assisting doctors, are sophisticated machines ready to take charge? Continued here

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Long before electricity, wind catchers of Persia kept residents cool. Climate-conscious architects are taking notes. Temperatures in Yazd can regularly reach 115 degrees Fahrenheit. But somehow, it was bearable, Ghadirzadeh said. She and her cousins spent their days exploring the city’s shaded alleyways or in the basement. Evenings were spent on the rooftop under the stars. Mornings, back again in the thick-walled rooms and courtyards. Continued here

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Maharashtra: Ancient stone age tools found in India cave Over the years rock carvings of a previously unknown civilisation have been found in India's western state of Maharashtra. Now, a cave in the same region is promising to shed more light on the creators of these prehistoric artworks and their lives. The BBC Marathi's Mayuresh Konnur reports. Continued here

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The Expanded College Football Playoff Can Be Great--If It Follows These Five Steps Last week’s announcement that the playoff is jumping from four to 12 teams by 2026 caused plenty of concern among fans. But if officials make a few specific moves, this could turn into one of the best events in American sports. Continued here

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Inside Cristiano Ronaldo's year at Manchester United: How a glorious return turned sour Manchester United saw the signing of Cristiano Ronaldo as a dream move but it has turned into a nightmare for the player and his managers Continued here

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Notebook: Isn't it romantic? Talking about publishing romance is like talking about publishing books, but moreso. Some people argue that the very first novels were the French romances of the early seventeenth century (“novel” in French is still “roman”). Other now-popular forms like mystery and science fiction developed generations later. Cheap paperbacks themselves had their origins in the commercial appeal of sensational, popular fiction: in the mid-nineteenth century publishers cottoned on to newly literate readers’ appetite for popular fiction and began selling cheaply printed, luridly illustrated newspaper-sized “books” through newspaper distribution on the streets and at cigar stands. As John Markert recounts in Publishing Romance: The History of an Industry, 1940s to the Present, the first US book professional to exploit the hunger for inexpensive fiction turned to romance: in 1854 T. B. Peterson published a manuscript called The Lost Heiress, by a Mrs. E. D. E. N. Southworth, that had been snubbed by establishment houses, noting an unserved appetite for “books at low prices, especially sensational fiction.” It was a hit, and inaugurated an early paperback boom of the 1880s as well as a recurrent pattern of traditional hardcover publishers declining to recognize readers’ visibly expressed appetites. When Pocket Books imitated Allen Lane’s Penguin Books in England and brought out a line of low-cost paperbacks for sale in train stations and drug stores and newsstands in the US, inventing the modern paperback (see our Notebook, “Paperback Writers”), they jumped on the same bandwagon of inexpensive production and distribution outside traditional outlets, in the places where people lived and shopped, an approach now called “mass market,” as opposed to working through booksellers, or the “trade.” Continued here

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The Number Ones: Crazy Town's "Butterfly" Nobody in human history has ever looked more like a video game character than Shifty Shellshock in the “Butterfly” video. Shifty, one of the two rappers in the Los Angeles band Crazy Town, looks exactly like a game designer’s idea of a circa-2001 cool guy. He’s got it all: The juiced-up musculature, the constant shirtlessness, the carefully sculpted facial hair, the hazardously gelled-up spiky frosted tips, the big honking chin, the wide array of facial piercings. This guy simply shouldn’t exist on the physical plane. He should be throwing jumpkicks in a C-level fighting game. Continued here

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Why Have Restaurant Menus Gotten So Simple? Potatoes are probably not the first ingredient you think of when you imagine items that could quickly bankrupt an otherwise successful restaurant, but chances are good that you do not purchase 50 pounds of potatoes every week. Chef Matt Le-Khac, who owns the Vietnamese restaurant Bolero in Williamsburg, does, so when he noticed the price of his preferred fingerling potatoes shooting up, he knew he needed to do something fast. This past spring, a case of the long, knobbly potatoes might have cost Le-Khac about $50. “But in June, it was up to $121,” he says. “That’s unsustainable.” Continued here

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Best appliances to save cash when cooking According to the study, batch cooking, where possible, could save £158 over a year, while using the right-sized pan with a lid would save £72, and simmering rather than boiling could reduce annual bills by £68. Meanwhile, filling the kettle with the right amount of water could lop £19 off annual energy costs. Continued here

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The beloved, bucolic My Summer Vacation series breaks free from Japan The release of charming adventure game Shin chan: Me and the Professor on Summer Vacation on Nintendo Switch this week may not seem like a momentous occasion in the annals of gaming — low-budget licensed titles rarely are. But like the recent Western debuts of Live A Live, Kowloon High-School Chronicle, or Moon, Shin-chan’s new release fills an important gap in the history of video games. Continued here

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21 years ago, a Nintendo flop changed the video games industry forever My mom had given me an enticing choice: I could pick one console and one game to bring home. This would be my first piece of hardware that wasn’t a black-and-white Game Boy, so I jumped at the opportunity. The Xbox was immediately out of the running — I was a bit too young to yell at strangers in Halo. That left the PlayStation 2 and the GameCube as the main contenders. Continued here

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Should I Split My Children's College Funds With My New Stepkids? Parenting advice on finances, divorce, and bullies. Continued here

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The Match A generation of Europeans is now returning to Sri Lanka, a country from which they were adopted as children, to search for their birth mothers. What they learn about their families, and themselves, has deep consequences — A new story from South Asia to the world, each week on FiftyTwo.in Continued here

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Trump-Appointed Judge Is Not Keen to Hear More about How She's Bad at Law The .css-umdwtv{-webkit-text-decoration:underline;text-decoration:underline;text-decoration-thickness:.0625rem;text-decoration-color:#FF3A30;text-underline-offset:0.25rem;color:inherit;-webkit-transition:background 0.4s;transition:background 0.4s;background:linear-gradient(#ffffff, #ffffff 50%, #d5dbe3 50%, #d5dbe3);-webkit-background-size:100% 200%;background-size:100% 200%;}.css-umdwtv:hover{color:#000000;text-decoration-color:border-link-body-hover;-webkit-background-position:100% 100%;background-position:100% 100%;}latest act in the foregone conclusion that is ongoing in the courtroom of U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon down in Florida has once again smacked the gobs of actual legal minds in the general direction of Belize. From Law and Crime: Continued here

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Human Trafficking's Newest Abuse: Forcing Victims Into Cyberscamming The ads on the Telegram messaging service’s White Shark Channel this summer had the matter-of-fact tone and clipped phrasing you might find on a Craigslist posting. But this Chinese-language forum, which had some 5,700 users, wasn’t selling used Pelotons or cleaning services. It was selling human beings — in particular, human beings in Sihanoukville, Cambodia, and other cities in southeast Asia. Continued here

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The Biggest Ancient City You've Probably Never Heard of Is in Illinois Just a river's crossing away from St. Louis, Missouri, rests an ancient and mysterious anthropological site that few Americans know of. Scholars still discuss the potential reasons for the demise of Cahokia, a massive settlement that may have housed as many as 20,000 people by 1050 A.D. The metropolis, which sits in the fertile floodplain of the Mississippi River Valley that's now western Illinois, was made up of towering, handmade earthen mounds, the largest of which still exists at the Cahokia Mounds State Historic Site. While there are a lot of unknowns when it comes to this ancient civilization, including why it disappeared, remains have helped researchers paint a picture of what the city was like at its peak.  Continued here

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Following in the Footsteps of J.R.R. Tolkien in Switzerland's Mystical Lauterbrunnen Valley Tugging at my memory was a whimsical illustration from my childhood copy of The Hobbit, a depiction of the elvish valley of Rivendell painted by author J.R.R. Tolkien himself. When I pulled up the image and compared it with the landscape before me, the similarity was stunning. Suddenly I realized that the renowned author must have stood right where I was standing now, his awe becoming the inspiration for Middle Earth. Continued here

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How One Person Can Change the Conscience of an Organization While corporate transformations are almost universally assumed to be top-down processes, in reality, middle managers, and first-line supervisors can make significant change when they have the right mindset. Dr. Tadataka Yamada was one of dozens of executives the authors spoke to over the last several years to learn how one can succeed in making positive change in large organizations. His story shows many of traits the authors observed in interviews. He had a clarity of conscience and was willing to speak up. He took every chance, even small ones, to hone his skills of challenging the status quo for the greater good. He didn’t let tough challenges gradually slip from focus because they were “too big” to tackle in the moment. Finally, he centered his purpose on helping those with less privilege. Continued here

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Family Businesses Have a Talent-Acquisition Advantage As family businesses look to prioritize growth, they must remain laser-focused on levers that will move their businesses forward, even in the face of economic uncertainty and global challenges. For these leaders, talent will play a key role in long-term success, and leaders must lean into the cultural values and integrity inherent to family businesses to help rise above and successfully attract and retain the talent they need to thrive in any market environment. This article covers four ways to turn trust into a competitive advantage. Continued here

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You Can Boost Your Mood by Eating More of These 3 Nutrients, Says an Internal Medicine Physician As health professionals, internal medicine doctors pride themselves on having a more personal approach to medicine because they tend to work with people who suffer from chronic, often severe, illnesses. They also look at their patient's health through a holistic lens in order to determine the root of their health issues. And thus, these MDs tend to have some compelling insight when it comes to how, say, your diet affects your mood. Continued here

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Step on it! Walking is good for health but walking faster is even better, study finds Dr Matthew Ahmadi, the co-lead author of the paper and a research fellow at the University of Sydney, said the study found that by walking 10,000 steps a day “you could lower your risk of dementia by about 50%, and for cardiovascular disease and cancer, you’d be lowering it between 30 to 40%.” Continued here

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8 Science-Backed Ways to Boost Your Immune System, According to Experts You’re born with your immune system and everyone’s is slightly different, but there are certain things you can do to try to bolster it, says Julia Blank, M.D., family medicine physician at Providence Saint John’s Health Center in Santa Monica, CA. “Maintaining a healthy immune system requires that you take good care of your body,” she says. Continued here

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How to Become a Brand, Not an Employee When you have a branding mindset, on the other hand, you think of your expertise and knowledge like a product or service. Brands offer unique products or experiences that you can't get anywhere else. It's the same in the professional world: You have to go to work and provide expertise and unique experiences with your team members or clients that no one else offers. This personal branding can be experienced in the way you deliver your task, how you dress, or how you conduct yourself in meetings. People with a brand mindset present their best selves every day and constantly work to enhance their knowledge. Continued here

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How to Learn Fast: 10 Ways to Boost Math and Language Skills Learning new things is a huge part of life -- we should always be striving to grow and learn a new skill. Whether you're learning Spanish or want to do math fast, it takes time to learn each lesson, and time is precious. So how can you make the most of your time by speeding up the learning process? Thanks to neuroscience, we now have a better understanding of how we learn and the most effective ways our brains process and hold on to information. Continued here