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Mon. 05/23 - The Forest At The Bottom Of A Sinkhole

Cool Stuff Daily

Reggie Risseeuw and Marques Pfaff

Tech News, News, Science, Society & Culture

4.6739 Ratings

🗓️ 23 May 2022

⏱️ 17 minutes

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The ancient forest that was discovered at the bottom of a giant sinkhole in China. Plus, a moth species not seen since 1912 was found in the luggage of a passenger at the Detroit airport. And the first patient has been injected with an experimental virus meant to destroy tumors. Sponsors: Calm, Get 40% off a Calm Premium Subscription calm.com/coolstuff DeVry University, Learn more at DeVry.edu/Future Links: Ancient forest found at bottom of huge sinkhole in China (The Guardian) Giant sinkhole with a forest inside found in China (ScienceAlert) In a massive Chinese sinkhole, scientists find a secret forest (Washington Post) karst (National Geographic) TSA on Instagram  Moth Species Not Seen Since 1912 Was Intercepted at Detroit Airport (NY Times) 'Very flashy' moth not seen in more than a century found in bag at Detroit airport (NBC News) First Patient Injected With Experimental Cancer-Killing Virus in New Clinical Trial (ScienceAlert) Oncolytic Virus Therapy That Destroys Cancer In Solid Tumors Given To First Patient In New Trial (IFL Science) First Patient Dosed With Experimental Cancer-Killing Virus in New Trial (Gizmodo) Trailer for David Bowie’s Moonage Daydream Doc Promises a “Cinematic Odyssey” (Consequence) 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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It's Monday, May 23rd, 2022. I'm Jackson Bird today. The ancient forest that was discovered at the bottom of a giant sinkhole in China.

1:17.5

Plus, a species of moth not seen since 1912, was found in the luggage of a passenger at the Detroit airport.

1:25.4

And the first patient has been injected with an experimental

1:29.3

virus meant to destroy tumors. Here's some cool stuff for your ride home.

1:37.8

An ancient forest has been found at the bottom of a massive sinkhole in China. What a collection of magical words.

1:46.5

And it sounds really fascinating and it is, but to those in the know, it's not quite as shocking

1:51.8

as it may sound from the headlines to us lay people. So the forest was discovered by cave

1:57.8

explorers at the start of the month in China's Guangxi region.

2:01.6

The sinkhole itself is about 1,000 feet long, 500 feet wide, and 630 feet deep,

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