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Cool Stuff Daily

Predicting Catastrophic River Shifts, New Rhino Population Stats, Woolly Rhino Found, and TDIH - A Legendary Video Game Company is Founded - With Playing Cards

Cool Stuff Daily

Reggie Risseeuw and Marques Pfaff

News, Tech News, Science, Society & Culture

4.6732 Ratings

🗓️ 23 September 2024

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

The scientific breakthrough that could help us predict catastrophic river shifts. Plus, the global number of rhinos is headed in the right direction, but poaching is also on the rise and a new woolly rhino is found. This Day in History, the founding of what turned into a legendary video gaming company. Breakthrough study predicts catastrophic river shifts that threaten millions worldwide | ScienceDaily The number of rhinos is slightly up but poaching has increased too | AP News India's one-horned rhino numbers charging ahead, govt says (yahoo.com) 32,400-year-old woolly rhino mummy unearthed with skin, fur intact (interestingengineering.com) Frozen Mummy of a Subadult Woolly Rhinoceros Coelodonta antiquitatis (Blumenbach, 1799) from the Late Pleistocene of Yakutia | Doklady Earth Sciences (springer.com) Nintendo was founded in 1889, nearly a century before the NES | The Vintage News 23 September 1889: Nintendo starts making playing cards | MoneyWeek From creating Japanese playing cards in 1889 to becoming one of the most iconic video game companies in history, see how Nintendo has evolved | Business Insider India Contact the show - [email protected] Sponsored By Acorns - Head to at acorns.com/cool or download the Acorns app to start saving and investing for your future today! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Welcome to Cool Stuff Ride Home. Marcus Papp, joined by Reggie Rizzou, and on today's episode,

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the scientific breakthrough

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that could help us predict catastrophic river shifts. Plus, the global number of rhinos is headed

0:45.4

in the right direction, but poaching is also on the rise. Speaking of rhinos, a nearly 33,000-year-old

0:52.7

woolly rhino mummy was unearthed with skin and fur intact.

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Yes, you heard me right.

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Woolly rhino.

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And on this day in history, the founding of what turned into a legendary video gaming company.

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All coming up on cool stuff.

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Turning once again to Science Daily, as Indiana University researchers have uncovered key

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insights into the dangerous phenomenon of river avulsion, offering a way to predict when and where

1:19.5

rivers may suddenly and dramatically change course. Published in the scientific journal Nature,

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this breakthrough study sheds light on a process that has shaped human history through devastating floods and continues to threaten millions of people worldwide.

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Led by Jake Gehrin, a PhD student in the Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences within the College of Arts and Sciences at IU Bloomington, The research team has outlined for the first time the conditions

1:44.6

that create river evulsions. So using advanced satellite technology, Gieran and team mapped

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how certain landscape features make evulsions more likely. Per Gere in quote, measuring

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topography around a river is difficult and time consuming because of the dense vegetation. We took advantage of a new

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