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Mon. 09/13 - De-Extinct Woolly Mammoths & Potty-Trained Cows

Cool Stuff Daily

Reggie Risseeuw and Marques Pfaff

News, Society & Culture, Science, Tech News

4.6739 Ratings

🗓️ 13 September 2021

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Summary

Could woolly mammoths help slow the effects of the climate emergency? It’s not just a theoretical question. One entrepreneur is betting on it, and working to bring woolly mammoths back from extinction to prove it. Lorde has re-released part of her latest album with Māori language translations. And a new effort to potty train cows, for the environment. Sponsors: Indeed, Get a free $75 credit at Indeed.com/goodnews Upstart, upstart.com/kottke Links: Firm raises $15m to bring back woolly mammoth from extinction (The Guardian) This Texan Aims to Resurrect the Woolly Mammoth to Save the Planet (Texas Monthly) Tue. 09/08 - Long Live the (Cloned) Woolly Mammoth (Kottke Ride Home) Lorde Drops Maori-Language Album Of 'Solar Power' Songs (NPR)  Te Ao Mārama (Lorde, YouTube) Scientists Potty-Trained Cows to Help Reduce Environmental Pollution (Vice) Toilet-Training Cows Is A Win For The Planet – And The Cows (IFL 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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welcome to the codkey ride home for monday September 13th, 2021. I'm Jackson Bird today.

0:42.7

Could Woolly Mammoths help slow the effects of the climate emergency?

0:47.7

It's not just a theoretical question. One entrepreneur is betting on it and working to bring

0:52.9

woolly mammoths back from extinction to prove it.

0:56.9

Lord has re-released part of her latest album with Maori language translations.

1:02.9

And a new effort to potty train cows for the environment.

1:08.9

Here are some of the cool things from the news today.

1:14.6

A tech entrepreneur and a Harvard geneticist have started a company to bring woolly mammoths back

1:21.9

from extinction in an effort to fight the climate emergency, or more likely just because it seems like a cool thing to do.

1:30.1

Ben Lamb and George Church are the two men behind the newly announced colossal.

1:35.7

Here's more about Lamb from Texas Monthly, quote,

1:38.8

After building and selling an e-learning software outfit that he launched in his early 20s,

1:43.3

he started Chaotic Moon, a creative technology studio that invented tech novelties, biometric tattoos,

1:50.0

virtual reality games, for corporate clients. After selling that company in 2015, he founded

1:55.7

one that made customer service chatbots for mass brands, such as Wingstap and Pizza Hut,

2:01.9

and then came Hypergiant. the company he founded in 2018 to create artificial intelligence systems for

2:07.6

space satellites, undersea robots, and other advanced machinery, end quote.

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