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Mon. 12/18 - Did Dinosaurs Limit Our Lifespan? Return Your Books, Pompei Artifact

Cool Stuff Daily

Reggie Risseeuw and Marques Pfaff

Tech News, News, Science, Society & Culture

4.6739 Ratings

🗓️ 18 December 2023

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Summary

On today’s episode – why we humans may owe our relatively short lifespan to … the dinosaurs, another overdue book returned after more than five decades, and a Belgian family stumbles upon an ancient artifact from the lost city of Pompei. Plus, this week in history takes a look at a Christmas TV movie classic. Lifespan (Popular Mechanics) Beowulf Returned (UPI) Nancy Drew Returned (UPI) Overdue Book History (Manybooks) Pompei Artifact (UPI) Lost Tomato Follow-up (UPI) Contact us - coolstuffcommute@gmail.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

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0:04.8

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0:07.7

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0:11.1

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0:12.9

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0:16.3

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0:20.5

Once again, welcome to another edition of Cool Stuff Ride Home.

0:24.0

Marcus Paff and Reggie Rizzou, bringing you some of the more interesting stories of the day.

0:28.9

On today's episode, why we humans may owe our relatively short lifespan to the dinosaurs.

0:36.4

Another overdue book returned after more than five decades,

0:39.9

and a Belgian family stumbles upon an ancient artifact from the Lost City of Pompeii.

0:46.0

Plus, this week in history takes a look at a Christmas TV movie classic coming up on Cool

0:51.2

Stuff Ride Home.

0:53.0

Well, the quest for immortality is an age-old theme amongst humans, and while the fountain of

0:57.4

youth was never truly discovered by Spanish explorer Juan Ponce de Leon, there is at least one modern-day

1:03.7

scientist who believes humans were originally destined to live much longer lives than we currently

1:09.3

do, until the dinosaurs ruined it, of course.

1:11.6

Juo Pedro de Magliais is the chair of molecular biogaryontology at the University of Birmingham

1:17.6

in England, and his lab studies aging and longevity.

1:21.6

He recently put forth a hypothesis that suggests mammals, of which humans are apart, of course,

1:26.6

were originally built for longer

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