How Kansas City embraced living on the edge

The numbers behind the Super Bowl: How much is made and spent? With Super Bowl 59 approaching, here is a look at where millions, and potentially billions of dollars are made and spent for the big game. KANSAS CITY, Mo. – It was so fitting that in order for the Kansas City Chiefs to advance…

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Here’s how ancient Amazonians became master maize farmers

Water engineers in ancient South America turned seasonally flooded Amazonian savannas into hotbeds of year-round maize farming. Casarabe people built an innovative, previously unrecognized network of drainage canals and water-storing ponds that enabled two maize harvests annually, say geoarchaeologist Umberto Lombardo of the Autonomous University of Barcelona and colleagues. Large-scale maize cultivation during rainy and…

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