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Tue. 07/19 - DIY 4 Lyfe & Death

Cool Stuff Daily

Reggie Risseeuw and Marques Pfaff

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4.6739 Ratings

🗓️ 19 July 2022

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Three species frozen in time within one single piece of amber. Plus, the DIYers building their own coffins. And Costco has promised not to raise the price of their rotisserie chickens, but is that a good thing? Sponsors: Kolide, Got Slack? Got Macs? Get Kolide: Device security that fixes challenging problems by messaging your users on Slack. Try Kolide Today! https://l.kolide.co/3aVdR90  Shopify, Get a 14-day free trial at shopify.com/cool Links: Entombed together: Rare fossil flower and parasitic wasp make for amber artwork (Oregon State University) A Wasp, Flower, And Fly Trapped in Amber Reveal 30-Million-Year Old Microcosm (ScienceAlert) Final DIY Project: Build Your Own Coffin (Wall Street Journal) "How life in America is going" (Taylor Lorenz, Twitter) Costco's inflation-proof $4.99 rotisserie chicken, explained (Vox) Inflation is raising prices on almost everything, except rotisserie chicken (NPR) 'Powerpuff Girls' Animated Series Reboot In Works At Hanna-Barbera (Deadline) What the hell is "Ken-ergy?" Here's our working definition (A/V Club) Daniel Kaluuya's 'Heartbreaking' Live-Action Barney Movie Is Still Early in Development (IGN) 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

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Music lines and stores subject to availability ends 14th of february it's tuesday july 19th 22 i'm jacksonberg today three species frozen in time within one single piece of amber plus the, the DIYers building their own coffins.

0:41.3

And Costco has promised not to raise the price of their rotisserie chickens.

0:46.4

But is that a good thing?

0:48.2

Here's some cool stuff for your ride home.

0:53.1

The dude who inspired the whole extracting insect DNA from Amber plot of Jurassic Park

1:00.0

has just made another remarkable discovery. George Poinard Jr., an entomologist whose early work

1:07.0

did indeed involve extracting DNA from insects entombed in amber, although without the

1:12.2

whole dinosaur resurrection thing, recently found another insect in an amber sample, but not just

1:18.8

an insect, an insect, a plant, and a developing fly larva. It's a whole microcosm preserved

1:27.1

inside one single sample of amber. Now, the insect happens to

1:31.7

be of a new species of wasp that Poinar himself discovered a few years ago, called a Hambletonia

1:37.6

Dominicana. And the flower is an even more recent discovery. In fact, this study marks the first

1:43.3

fossil record of the plant's

1:44.9

entire genus, dubbed Plukinisha. And this particular species of flower was named Plukinisha minima by

1:52.0

Poinar. Now, as for the amber that trapped these three life forms together millions of years ago,

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