Traditional healer and national coordinator of the Traditional Healers Organisation (THO) of South Africa, Phephisile Maseko, treats patients with a mix of cannabis and other herbs. In June, Artemisia afra was in high demand on the streets of Johannesburg in South Africa. To treat Covid-19 symptoms, the Indigenous herb’s silvery leaves were for sale at…Continue Reading
Home News Science & Astronomy Editor’s note: JAXA’s live webcast of the Hayabusa2 asteroid sample-return capsule landing will begin at 12 p.m. EST (1700 GMT). Japan’s Hayabusa2 spacecraft is about to deliver a precious sample of asteroid dust to Earth this weekend and you can watch the event live.The mission will swing by our planet to…Continue Reading
Comcast is expanding its data cap in 2021 to all of the territories that it covers. Starting next year, Comcast subscribers in Connecticut, Delaware, Massachusetts, Maryland, Maine, New Hampshire, New Jersey, North Carolina, New York, Pennsylvania, Vermont, Washington D.C., and West Virginia will all be subject to a 1.2TB data cap. You can pay an…Continue Reading
As if she hasn’t done enough, Ellen DeGeneres is now bringing back a live studio audience to The Ellen DeGeneres Show. The talk show will select 40 audience members out of a backlog of 4,000 previously scheduled fans to attend the show’s tapings, starting tomorrow. The studio audience will have to follow strict pandemic-related health…Continue Reading
Freedia’s performance marks one of the first livestreamed concerts to come out of Preservation Hall, which shut its doors in March at the start of the global pandemic. The venue offered a livestream benefit concert back in June featuring stars like Paul McCartney, Dave Grohl and Dave Matthews to raise money for the Preservation Hall…Continue Reading
Virtual reality might be the most promising enterprise technology your organization can adopt today—and the most misunderstood. In business, VR’s emerging reputation is now overcoming the outdated misconceptions about it: that it’s futuristic, cumbersome, and aimed primarily at gaming or entertainment consumers. In reality, VR is growing rapidly as businesses recognize its potential to help them grow. And the pace…Continue Reading
George Pimentel/Getty Images When KiKi Layne was cast as Tish Rivers, a lead character in Barry Jenkins’s quietly profound indie drama If Beale Street Could Talk, the choice may have been a mystery to some. Then a relatively little-known, 26-year-old actress who had spent her post-graduate years working the Chicago theater circuit, she beat out…Continue Reading
The unprecedented increase will see total global corporate debt jump by 12% to around $9.3 trillion TopicsCoronavirus | corporate debt | Companies Companies around the world will take on as much as $1 trillion of new debt in 2020, as they try to shore up their finances against the coronavirus, a new study of 900 top firms has estimated.…Continue Reading
This story is available exclusively on Business Insider Prime. Join BI Prime and start reading now. WeWork’s New York employees are heading back to headquarters in waves starting on Monday in a seven-week return to office plan. About a quarter of the staff will return to various offices initially, with a plan for the rest to…Continue Reading
