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The Surprising Health Benefits of Making a Campfire
Anthropologists believe that when our ancestors started cooking food, we unlocked more calories, leading to bigger brains. And from there, the internet. The logic goes that gathering together to make meals led to speaking and planning, which in turn helped us create new tools and build the social pacts that evolved into the modern world. For most people, fire isn’t nearly as important any more. However, its legacy endures. Building and enjoying a fire has hidden benefits—especially for men, and especially during the trying times of the COVID-19 pandemic. “Those groups more successful at keeping the fire going would have had an advantage over groups that didn’t,” explains Christopher D. Lynn,…
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The CEO who keeps animal pharm growing
Subscribe to How To Reopen, our weekly newsletter on what it takes to reboot business in the midst of a pandemic. When Kristin Peck became CEO of Zoetis in January, the animal health company was growing rapidly, thanks in part to steady growth in spending on pets. Just a few weeks later, coronavirus lockdowns turned the global economy upside down. But they also prompted Americans to adopt pets in record numbers, enabling Zoetis and Peck to face their first big crisis with what you might call a tailwind. Zoetis, which makes medicines, vaccines, and other products, was spun off from Pfizer in 2013 and joined the Fortune 500 in 2019.…