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Three years after a wildfire burned 97% of California's Big Basin Redwoods State Park, the forest — or at least several parts of it — is making a remarkable resurgence. The Santa Cruz Sentinel reported on the new developments in the park, citing researchers who spoke at a scientific symposium hosted by environmental nonprofit Santa Cruz Mountains Bioregional Council.

Wired

Covid cases have spiked every summer since 2020, and this season is no exception. A Covid wave is once again sweeping through much of the world and has reached the 2024 Paris Olympics.

ScienMag

The potato is small enough to fit inside a person’s hand yet contains enough nutrients to whittle waistlines and lower blood sugar in adults with Type 2 diabetes. Yet, despite the fact that potatoes – particularly the skins – are packed with health-boosting nutrients, they routinely get a bad rap among dieters.

Las Vegas Review Journal

Maybe people can control time — or their perception of it, anyway. A new paper written by UNLV Professor of Psychology James Hyman and published recently in Current Biology shows that the way people experience time has less to do with the physical hands of a clock, and more to do with the number of experiences in that given period of time.

Sign of the Times

Inner speaking, inner seeing, feelings, sensory awareness, unsymbolized thinking. Do we all have the same inner experiences? And how aware are we of what we actually experience from moment to moment?

PRWeb

Global law firm Greenberg Traurig, LLP and the William S. Boyd School of Law at the ҳ| 鶹ýӳ (UNLV) will co-host the fifth annual Summit for Corporate Governance Sept. 20 at the Wynn Las Vegas Resort.

Science

Lightly frosted with snow, the peaks of Red Butte look particularly beautiful today, remarks Dianna Sue White Dove Uqualla, an elder of the Havasupai Tribe. This land near the south rim of the Grand Canyon is sacred to her people as the place where their creation story says life began. It was once a hub of ceremony and prayer, but tribal members rarely visit now—not since the Pinyon Plain Mine started to extract uranium just 10 kilometers away.

Yahoo!

Yet another high-speed rail line could be headed to California and Nevada, an area that has waited for decades for high-speed rail infrastructure and is now beginning to experience something of a bullet train windfall, KTNV Las Vegas reported.

MoneyWise

For Las Vegas homeowner Yolanda Perkins, the threat of foreclosure constantly looms over her head. “The cost of living is so high, I live from paycheck to paycheck and I can barely make it,” she told Las Vegas ABC affiliate KNTV. “I make over $5,000 a month and I can not make it.”

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