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Laura was in her early twenties and directionless when she quit her job to backpack in Bolivia. Fate landed her at a wildlife sanctuary on the edge of the Amazon jungle where she was assigned to a beautiful and complex puma named Wayra. Wide-eyed, inexperienced, and comically terrified, Laura made the scrappy, make-do camp her home. And in Wayra, she made a friend for life. 

We spend 93% of our lives indoors, under artificial light, staring at screens. Digital saturation turns your hours into what Dr. John La Puma calls "ultraprocessed time": stripped of the natural signals that regulate sleep, hormones, attention, and metabolism. The result is inflammation, burnout, brain fog, impaired immunity, and metabolic dysfunction. Your risk for heart disease and diabetes rise. Burnout is not psychological. It is not willpower. It is indoor confinement.

An Expert's View of the Big Cat's Fight to Find Its Wild During a time when most wild animals are experiencing decline in the face of development and climate change, the intrepid mountain lion -- also known as a puma, a cougar, and by many other names - has experienced reinvigoration as well as...