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Early Addition: Science Wants To Bring Back The Woolly Mammoth "Jurassic Park"-Style
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James Ramsay
Published Sep 15, 2021
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• "You'd think you'd kind of know before you off somebody with a predator drone, whether he's an aid worker or he's an ISIS-K operative," Sen. Rand Paul said yesterday during a hearing with Secretary of State Antony Blinken, who admitted that he didn't know who the U.S. recently killed with a drone strike in Kabul.
• All Jurassic Park jokes aside, the plan to mix elephant genes with some mammoth DNA to revive woolly mammoths in the Arctic seems pretty sick.
• While California's Democratic governor Gavin Newsom survived yesterday's recall election, it remains extremely easy for conservatives to gin up another recall unless the state enacts some serious reforms.
• President Biden said during a visit to Colorado this week that "we don't have much more than 10 years" to do something serious about climate change, though his administration hasn't said whether it supports a new tax on emissions.
• Executives from the trading app Robinhood are planning a fall tour of community colleges and HBCU campuses to recruit students to start buying stocks.
• The World Anti-Doping Agency is planning to review the rule against cannabis use that kept American sprinter Sha'Carri Richardson out of the Olympics.
• Ed Sheeran lamented after the VMAs that American award shows are "full of resentment and hatred towards everyone else," while British award shows are fun because "everyone gets drunk and no one really cares who wins or loses."
• Alanis Morissette has decided not to promote Jagged, the HBO documentary about her, after she saw a cut of the film and determined that the filmmakers had a "salacious agenda" and offered a "reductive take" on her life story.
• Drake has been golfing.
• And finally, takin' it all in:
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