Buying a T. Rex and restoring Notre Dame, our quest for legacy.

This is Dr. Jim Denison's The Daily Article Podcast for Wednesday, April 17th, 2019.

Would you pay $2.95 million for a baby Tyrannosaurus Rex?

The 68 million-year-old skeleton was discovered in Montana in 2013 by Alan Detrick and his brother.

Detrick loaned the fossil to the Kansas University Natural History Museum, then decided to put

it up for sale on eBay.

Paleontologists warned that the bones are incomplete and shattered in parts.

The asking price is just absurd, one said.

In other financial news, French President Emmanuel Macron made a televised address yesterday

stating that he hopes to rebuild the Notre Dame Cathedral within five years. That's what the

French expect. That's what our history deserves, he stated. As of this morning, nearly $1 billion

has been raised for the project. There's something about us that wants to own, build, or achieve

something of significance that outlives us.

We purchase artifacts and other iconic objects of historic value. We erect massive cathedrals

that stand long after those who build them. Those of us with lesser gifts as engineers and

builders trace our initials in tree trunks and on concrete. We etch the names of those we love on tombstones made

of rock. And we want to memorialize not just our lives but also our memories, and we'll pay a high

price to do so. Cindy Monfries was just weeks from graduation at Fordham University in New York,

when she died Sunday after falling from the iconic campus clock tower,

she was trying to take a picture up the Bronx under moonlight.

Andrea Norton, a 20-year-old college student from South Dakota,

died last Saturday when she fell 100 feet off a cliff in Arkansas.

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