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Thu. 04/01 - Slamilton: A Basketball Musical

Cool Stuff Ride Home

Reggie Risseeuw and Marques Pfaff

News, Tech News, Science, Society & Culture

4.6732 Ratings

🗓️ 1 April 2021

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Could humans evolve to be venomous? The man currently walking from Washington D.C. to New York City and tweeting all the way. The Hamilton/Space Jam mashup you never knew you needed. A brief roundup of corporate April Fools’ Day pranks we definitely didn’t need. And Chipotle is running a burritos and bitcoin contest that is miraculously not an April Fools’ Day prank. I think. Sponsors: Ladder, ladderlife.com/kottke Gabi Insurance, gabi.com/kottke Links: Humans Will Probably Evolve to Be Venomous Popular Mechanics (Popular Mechanics) Could humans ever be venomous? (Live Science) Neil King's twitter thread of his journey (NKingofDC, Twitter) Slamilton - A Basketball Musical (Full Album) (Psynwav, Youtube) Slamilton: A Basketball Musical (Psynwav, Bandcamp) Neutral Bling Hotel (Psynwav, Soundcloud) April Fools' Day 2021: Duolingo toilet paper, Velveeta skincare and more pranks (CNET) Where to Get Free and Cheap Burritos for National Burrito Day (LifeHacker) BurritosOrBitcoin.com Bitcoin millionaires forgetting passwords (Kottke Ride Home) Enter the Age of the Vaccine Selfie (NY Times) 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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0:00.0

Peggy 16.

0:01.0

My name is Paul Heyman, special counsel to Roman Raines and the Bloodlines Wise Man.

0:07.0

Step out of the ropes and onto the island in WW2K25, an epic WWE themed world ruled by the one and only Roman reigns.

0:19.0

The return of promos plus intergender matches, my GM goes multiplayer, and more.

0:25.5

WW2K25, available March 14th pre-order now.

0:35.6

Welcome to the Kotky Ride Home for Thursday, April 1st, 2021. I'm Jackson Bird.

0:42.6

Could humans evolve to be venomous?

0:46.4

The man currently walking from Washington, D.C. to New York City and tweeting all the way.

0:53.8

The Hamilton Space Jam mashup you never knew you needed.

0:59.1

A brief roundup of corporate April Fool's Day pranks we definitely didn't need.

1:03.8

And Chipotle is running a burritos and Bitcoin contest that is miraculously not in April Fool's Day prank. At least,

1:13.7

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

1:20.0

A new study has shown that technically speaking, humans could one day evolve to become venomous creatures. The new study just published

1:30.8

in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences looked into how oral venom glands evolved in

1:37.0

animals writ large, finding that, quote, oral venom systems likely originated from a gene

1:42.9

regulatory network conserved across amniotes, end quote.

1:47.6

Amniotes meaning animals whose embryos develop within an amnion, so birds, reptiles, and mammals.

1:54.9

There are thousands of venomous animal species, from snakes and spiders to slow loruses,

2:02.6

the only known venomous primate, and they often use venom in different ways, so it's tough to study venom in general,

2:08.6

and also that diversity makes it pretty exciting that the researchers have found one common genetic ancestor

2:14.6

for oral venom systems. Quoting popular mechanics, the scientists studied

2:20.3

the group of several thousand genes that are found to be expressed in tandem with venom release

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