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Wed. 1/20 - Baby Megalodons & The Muppet Gatsby

Cool Stuff Daily

Reggie Risseeuw and Marques Pfaff

Society & Culture, News, Tech News, Science

4.6739 Ratings

🗓️ 20 January 2021

⏱️ 16 minutes

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New findings into the cannibalism and sheer size of baby megalodons. Teaching AIs to become our teachers. And The Great Gatsby has only been in the public domain for twenty days and things are already getting weird. Sponsor: NordVPN, Get 68% off a two-year plan plus an additional free month––at nordvpn.com/kottke or use coupon KOTTKE Links: Baby Megalodons Were 6-Foot-Long Womb Cannibals, Study Suggests (NY Times) AI can solve Rubik's cube—and tell us how it did it. (Fast Company) Vampire Great Gatsby? Fitzgerald's classic novel gets an undead spin now that it's in the public domain (CNET) For ‘Gatsby’ fans, 2021 will be the start of remakes. First up: ‘Nick’ (Washington Post)  The Great Gatsby Performed By NPR's Planet Money (NPR)  Somebody wrote a 104-page Gatsby adaptation for the Muppets (A/V Club)  Muppet Show coming to Disney Plus in February 2020 (A/V Club) 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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New findings into the cannibalism of baby megalodons, teaching AIs to become our teachers,

0:52.3

and the Great Gatsby has only been in the public domain for 20 days,

0:57.2

and things are already getting weird. Here are some of the cool things from the news today.

1:06.0

Megalodons, the fearsome 50-foot-long predecessor to today's shark that went extinct around 3 million years ago.

1:14.3

They could weigh upwards of 100,000 pounds, and their massive jaws could snap with a force of about 100,000 Newton's.

1:22.4

And now, a new study published earlier this month in the journal Historical Biology sheds light on

1:27.7

Megalodon babies, emphasizing just how brutish the creatures were.

1:34.2

Using parts of teeth and backbones from the most complete existing megalodon skeleton,

1:38.8

Dr. Kenshu Shemada, lead author of the study and his team, were able to estimate that

1:43.5

megalodons were probably six feet

1:46.3

in length when they were born. Quoting the New York Times, to reach such a staggering size,

1:52.5

burgeoning megs may have snacked on each other while still in the womb, Dr. Shimada said.

1:58.4

Most sharks hatch from eggs inside their mother's bodies, then are birthed

2:02.4

as live young. But the pups of some species don't take kindly to roommates. Once hatched, they

2:08.3

will begin to casually devour their unhatched siblings, which helps them beef up before being born.

2:15.0

It's this big, calorie-dense, nutritious meal that can help those embryos get

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