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☆ See how scientists uncover 50,000-year-old fossils from California's La Brea Tar Pits where saber-tooth cats and mammoths have been found
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-27 | by ( Jenny Mcgrath | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +1 min

Scientists have been extracting huge fossils from the La Brea tar pits since 1913. The tar pits have preserved an entire ecosystem, from mammoths to pollen. download the app Email address Sign up By clicking “Sign Up”, you accept our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy . Since 1913, scientists have been pulling bones and other fossils out of the La Brea tar pits. This story is available exclusively to Business Insider subscribers.

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☆ Every TV show ending in 2024, from 'Curb Your Enthusiasm' to 'Yellowstone'
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-16 | by ( Ayomikun Adekaiyero | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

9 TV shows aired their final episodes this year, including "Curb Your Enthusiasm," which premiered in 2000. Meanwhile, long-running shows including "Magnum P.I.," "La Brea," and "Good Trouble" have also come to a premature end. Other series like "Bob Hearts Abishola" and "S.W.A.T" were affected by TV networks' budget cuts. This may have had a ripple effect, with streamers and TV networks canceling or reducing their shows to make up for the losses of the last year. Here's what to know about all the TV series that have been canceled or are scheduled to end this year.

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RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Richmond couldn't have started any slower against No. 16 Dayton in the sold out Robins Center on Saturday night, missing its first 11 shots to fall behind 9-0. The victory was Richmond's 10th in a row, their longest winning streak since the 1934-35 team won 22 straight. Isaiah Bigelow and Dji Bailey added 12 points each for Richmond, (15-5, 7-0) with Bigelow also grabbing 15 rebounds. I thought we got out of character at times offensively, rushed some things,” Flyers coach Anthony Grant said.

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☆ Life on the road can be grueling for NBA players and staff. But Celtics center Al Horford says support from the league's Mind Health program is a game changer.
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-09 | by ( Brea Cubit | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +9 min

To help players, the Boston Celtics organization offers mental-health resources, Al Horford told BI. How the Celtics organization supports players' mental healthThis is a complicated, shared experience among frequent business travelers. The NBA's increased focus on mental healthKensa Gunter, the NBA's director of mind health since 2020, is helping lead this charge across the NBA's 30 teams. Those efforts evolved into the Mind Health program, which launched in 2018 and became an even more crucial resource in 2020, when the pandemic hit and social unrest swelled, Gunter added. "How do you help someone maintain their mental health while they're doing so much traveling and are away from their families?"

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☆ Dayton rallies, beats LSU in dramatic finish
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-16 | by ( Field Level Media | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

[1/13] Nov 16, 2023; Charleston, South Carolina, USA; LSU Tigers guard Carlos Stewart (1) and Dayton Flyers forward Nate Santos (2) scramble for a ball in the first half at TD Arena. Brea's 3-pointer tied the score with 47 seconds left and LSU turned the ball over, leading to the game-winner. Daron Holmes made two free throws to produce the Flyers' first points of the half, but LSU scored the next six points to open a 46-32 lead. Enoch Cheeks' jumper ended a 4 1/2-minute field-goal drought for Dayton, which closed within nine points twice. The first half was extremely close from beginning to end, featuring 11 lead changes and five ties before LSU held a 32-30 edge lead.

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☆ Ruzwana Bashir Is Quietly Connecting the Tech World
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-16 | by ( ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +18 min

Story by Melia RussellPhotography by Lelanie FosterRuzwana Bashir is ransacking her kitchen cabinet for just the right tea. Bashir wears an Erdem floral-printed bra top, Erdem skirt, Giuseppe Zanotti shoes, Old Jewelry earrings along with her own bracelet and ring. "Part of building a business was going out and sharing what you were doing with the world," Bashir says. For years Bashir's startup had been building muscle around these capabilities; now it had an eager audience. Eating at acclaimed restaurants is fine, but Bashir prefers the more-intimate affairs at tech executives' homes because, she says, "you can stay longer."

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☆ Dire wolves, camels, and other extinct giant mammals that used to live in North America
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-14 | by ( Jenny Mcgrath | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +16 min

North America used to be crawling with giant mammals, from dire wolves to big cats. In North America, "you only get the woolly mammoths up in the north, starting around the Great Lakes," Lindsey said. AdvertisementOnce thought to be the cousins of gray wolves, dire wolves evolved separately over 5 million years ago in North America. AdvertisementThe ancient bison, Bison antiquus, was 25% larger than those living today. A recent study suggested modern bison — Bison biso — evolved from this species.

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☆ ‘Watch Night’ Review: For Spacious Skies, for Rancorous Waves of Hate
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-08 | by ( Elisabeth Vincentelli | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Some of them are imprinted with the text of the Second Amendment, others a rallying cry: “We fight fascists.” Among the most eye-catching is an ad for N.R.A. memberships, with its promise of “$5,000 Accidental Death and Dismemberment insurance.”But what about intentional deaths? “Watch Night,” a new multigenre hybrid show, is interested in those, specifically the ones fueled by homegrown prejudice. He wrote the libretto for “We Shall Not Be Moved” (2017), an opera inspired by the police bombing in 1985 of a Philadelphia house occupied by Black activists, with an artistic team that included Jones and Lauren Whitehead, the “Watch Night” dramaturg. Unfortunately, those experiences have not helped focus this new production.

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☆ We left California and have no regrets: 7 people who fled the state share why and the culture shocks they've experienced in their new locations
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-01 | by ( Manseen Logan | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +10 min

Over 800,000 people left California between 2021 and 2022, according to the Census Bureau. Read more: I left California and I'm never going back. Read more: I left California for Texas to begin my new life as a divorcée. But Hayes was finally able to purchase a home and told Insider he enjoys the cleaner air and clearer skies. Vered DeLeeuw and her husband left Palo Alto, California, for friendlier MemphisDeLeeuw and her husband recently relocated to Memphis, Tennessee.

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☆ Bye California: 7 people who fled the state share the culture shocks they've experienced and why they have no regrets
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-01 | by ( Manseen Logan | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +10 min

Over 800,000 people left California between 2021 and 2022, according to the Census Bureau. Since moving to San Antonio, Burse told Insider she spends less on gas and groceries and feels more comfortable sharing her opinions. But Hayes was finally able to purchase a home and told Insider he enjoys the cleaner air and clearer skies. "No one is really tackling the problem or communicating what can be done to help those in need," Cheng told Insider. Vered DeLeeuw and her husband left Palo Alto, California, for friendlier MemphisDeLeeuw and her husband recently relocated to Memphis, Tennessee.

☆ Human-caused fires may have contributed to the extinction of saber-toothed cats, dire wolves, and other animals 13,000 years ago
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-18 | by ( Jenny Mcgrath | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +9 min

The La Brea tar pits captured dire wolves, sabertooth cats, and other megafaunal for millennia. Statues of megafaunal mammals give La Brea Tar Pit visitors a sense of what animals roamed the area thousands of years ago. The loss of herbivores at La Brea could've contributed to a feedback loop, making fires — however, they started — more intense, the paper's authors say. Paelongotolist MacPhee cautions that there could be other explanations for why these animals in the 61/67 tar pits stopped appearing. Excavation of the La Brea tar pits has yielded hundreds of thousands of fossils.

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☆ What the Hollywood writers' strike could mean for your favorite TV shows, from 'Abbot Elementary' to 'Saturday Night Live'
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-02 | by ( Sindhu Sundar | Lucia Moses | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

Topical shows relying on actively scripted material, including late night, will be the most immediately affected. The strike — which was authorized by nearly 98% of Writers Guild of America members who voted last month — will most immediately impact shows that rely on active writers' rooms working on current material, including "Saturday Night Live" and late night shows. The moment may be an opportunity for reality TV producers as well as non-union productions. Some celebrities on shows likely to be impacted have addressed the possibility of the impending strike on the late night circuit. Davidson acknowledged a writer's strike might mean his "SNL" episode doesn't happen as planned and said he gained a new perspective working on the production as a prospective host.

☆ Women's NCAA roundup: No. 1 S. Carolina rolls past UCLA
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-25 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

Mandatory Credit: Jim Dedmon-USA TODAY SportsMarch 25 - Brea Beal had 10 points, seven rebounds and four assists as No. 1 South Carolina advanced to its third consecutive Elite Eight with an easy 59-43 victory over No. 4 UCLA on Saturday in the Greenville Regional 1 at Greenville, S.C.South Carolina - the tournament's top overall seed - led wire-to-wire in a game where UCLA trailed by double digits for the majority of the second half. UCLA (27-10) was powered by Charisma Osborne's 14 points and seven rebounds. Playing without injured starting guards Olivia Miles and Dara Mabrey, Sonia Citron led the Irish with 14 points, four assists and seven rebounds.

☆ Zara is opening or revamping nearly 30 stores in the US by 2025 — here's where they're located
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-15 | by ( Avery Hartmans | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Inditex is planning to open at least 10 new Zara stores across the US by 2025. At least a dozen other Zara locations will be revamped or enlarged, the retailer said. "This is a market in which for every $100 of fashion sold, we take less than $0.50 of that," García Maceiras said. Foot traffic is up at Zara stores around the world, and Inditex reported a 23% jump in store sales in 2022 across its portfolio of brands, which includes Zara, Bershka, and Massimo Dutti. Inditex plans to invest 1.6 billion euros, about $1.7 billion, in expanding its stores and warehouses worldwide, including a new Zara store on Paris' Champs Elysées, and at least 10 new locations across the US.

"As a city, we will remain committed to fostering greater communication and understanding and continuing the progress we’ve made in addressing the needs of Fort Worth." As part of the settlement, the city admits no other fault and there are no other requirements, a Fort Worth spokesperson said. Craig called Fort Worth police to report that a white neighbor had choked her 7-year-old son, NBC Dallas-Fort Worth reported at the time of the December 2016 incident. He then told Craig that if she kept yelling, "you're gonna piss me off and I'm gonna take you to jail." At one point in the footage, the officer was seen pulling out his Taser as he wrestled Craig and Hymond.

☆ How 4 million fossils are excavated from La Brea Tar Pits
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-02 | by ( ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +1 min

Excavators at the La Brea Tar Pits pull, clean, and prepare fossils for research. With 4 million specimens already in the collection, why keep excavating after more than 100 years? With 4 million specimens already in the collection, why keep excavating after more than 100 years? The La Brea Tar Pits is one of the only pale ontological sites on Earth that has preserved an entire ecosystem over time, from plants to camels to bugs. We went to the La Brea Tar Pits to see how specimens are discovered, cleaned, and pieced together to build a record of the last 50,000 years.

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