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Read later Audio version Summary: Walmart Global CTO Suresh Kumar has a long tech shopping list to get through as the world's largest retailers ups its transformation efforts. (Walmart) The answer, he said, was tech and its successful application and exploitation. The potential there is such that makes Walmart’s situation more optimistic as it looks beyond COVID, he argued:  The thing that's different is technology. The Internet is different. Digital is different. The way you can stitch these things together is different…If we can design these things in a way ...

Image by Jamie Johannsen from Pixabay This time on the show it's another edition of Ask Sam, where Sam answers listener questions about the natural world. This time, questions about hugging trees, bumpy roads, objects stuck on power lines, and epic hummingbird battles. Plus, from our semi-regular series 10X10, we head under the ice of a frozen lake. In this piece, we give the down low on bizarre properties of water, fish that thrive in a capped-off environment, and long beards of algae clinging to the underside of a secret ecosystem few have ever explored. Ask Sam: Do Hummingbirds Sleep & O...

Justine Paradis Laura Waterman holds a handmade plaque that she and her husband Guy awarded to Mad Dog, the maple tree on their homestead with the highest maple sap production. Credit Justine Paradis In New England, the Waterman name is like mountain royalty. But beyond a tight circle of outdoors-people, they're not a household name.  In February 2020, Sam Evans-Brown visited Laura Waterman, one of the most influential voices in American wilderness philosophy, for a conversation about writing, living off-grid, protecting Franconia Ridge, and how she's changed following the death of her hus...

Saturation there already. i have a map up of the track of the storm. sam is saying, look, we know what happened here in these areas along the coast, especially with the continental shelf and the rapid buildup of strength. all of these areas, we don't really know yet how people were affected there. they're rural. they're remote. we're told a lot of people didn't evacuate. that's the primary concern for sam and all the experts. now you have this track. it's coming sblo -- into place that's already got hit. it is in rough shape. the kids just got back to school. now they have saturation where the...

Wilmington is in such rough shape. it is in rough shape. the kids just got back to school. now they have saturation where the ground can't absorb any water. like sam was saying, and all these storm winds. look what we're watching. hurricane here, right? tropical storm all here. they're not ready for it. they can't handle it given what they've already dealt with. sam, thank you for the perspective. do me a favor, stick around so we can forecast what's to come and what we need to watch out for. thank you, brother. it's great to have you. need you tonight. right now, i can't ask sam about wha...