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Fri. 08/13 - Woolly Mammoth Adventures & Goodreads Pages Held For Ransom

Cool Stuff Daily

Reggie Risseeuw and Marques Pfaff

News, Society & Culture, Science, Tech News

4.6739 Ratings

🗓️ 13 August 2021

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Summary

The groundbreaking study that has basically given us a daily diary of the entire life of a 17,000 year old woolly mammoth. Why coffee prices are spiking. And a ransom scam targeting authors that says a lot about the state of the world. Links: A Woolly Mammoth’s Tusks Reveal a Map of Where It Roamed in Life (NY Times) Ice Age mammoth's life story reconstructed in stunning detail (National Geographic) Mammoth's epic travels preserved in tusk (Nature) A Mammoth Tusk Reveals a Woolly (and Unprecedented) Tale (Wired) Your Daily Coffee Habit Is About to Get More Expensive (NY Times) Coffee Jolt Gets Pricier as Costs of Beans, Labor, Transport Rise (Wall Street Journal) The summer of writing scams continues with a series of Goodreads ransom notes. (Literary Hub) How the alt-right are resurfacing old tweets to get Trump's critics fired (The Guardian) Number of twins in Inverclyde schools hits 80 (The Scotsman) Fifteen sets of twins to start schools in Inverclyde (BBC) The number of twins in the world is the highest it has ever been (New Scientist) Countries With Most Twins Identified (Live Science) Kottke.Org Jackson Bird on Twitter See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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I'm Jackson Bird.

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Today, the groundbreaking study that has basically given us a daily diary of the entire life of a 17,000-year-old woolly mammoth.

0:53.6

Why coffee prices are spiking and a ransom scam targeting

0:59.1

authors that says a lot about the state of the world today. Here are some of the cool things

1:04.4

from the news today. A new study published yesterday in the journal Science is getting a lot of attention because

1:13.3

it is the most comprehensive look at the life of an individual woolly mammoth ever recorded.

1:19.8

It's a groundbreaking study not just because of how complete, detailed, and unprecedented a picture

1:25.7

it gives us of this one mammoth's life.

1:28.4

Vanderbilt University paleontologist Larissa DeSantis, who wasn't involved in the study,

1:32.6

says the only way they could have gone further would be by, quote,

1:36.2

going back in time and putting a GPS collar on a woolly mammoth, end quote.

1:41.1

But it's also remarkable because of what all of that information may be able to tell us

1:45.6

about woolly mammoths in general, if they had interactions with humans, and how they went extinct,

1:52.0

something that could shine particular insight on how other mammals of their size that are around today

1:57.2

may react to our presently changing climate. Quoting the New York Times,

2:02.6

more than 17,000 years ago, a woolly mammoth known today as Kik, wandered far and wide

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