'Corruption so rampant': Billions lost in 'mammoth' COVID fraud
IRS workers charged with stealing to buy luxury goods, fancy cars, travel
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wnd.com ^
| 4/21/2024 0955 hrs | WND staff
Often the Joe Biden administration has claimed that COVID-19 attacked families and workers through no fault of their own, and what was needed was its progressive spending agenda, specifically helping "people of color, immigrants, and low-wage workers." In
reality, however, Biden's spending, "billions and counting – has gone to unrelated causes and the administration’s COVID relief program continues to fleece American taxpayers," according to a report from government watchdog Judicial Watch. The organization reported that, "Fraud and corruption are so rampant in the U.S. government’s mammoth pandemic relief program that the Justice Department created a special COVID-19 Fraud Enforcement Task...
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Biotech Company Reveals Breakthrough That Could Lead to Revival of Extinct Woolly Mammoth
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NPR ^
| March 6, 2024 | Rob Stein
A biotech company that hopes to resurrect extinct species said Wednesday that it has reached an important milestone: the creation of a long-sought kind of stem cell for the closest living relative of the woolly mammoth. "This
is probably the most significant step in the early stages of this project," said George Church, a geneticist at Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology who co-founded Colossal Biosciences in Dallas. The woolly mammoth was a big, shaggy species of elephant that roamed the tundra before going extinct thousands of years ago. Colossal has been working to bring the mammoth, the...
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Biotech company reveals breakthrough that could lead to revival of extinct woolly mammoth
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NYPOST ^
| 3/6/2024 | DAVID PROPPER
The woolly mammoth could roam the Earth once again. That’s
the goal of Colossal Biosciences as the biotech company announced a major breakthrough Wednesday in its mission to revive the 6-ton, 16-foot animal back from extinction. The Dallas-based company said it has created a set of stem cells from an Asian elephant in hopes of bringing back a creature that would be eerily similar to the woolly mammoth, according to reports. “This is probably the most significant step in the early stages of this project,” said geneticist and company co-founder George Church, a Harvard University professor, according to NPR. The...
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Scientists Resurrecting The Woolly Mammoth Are Crazy, Not ‘Cool’
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The Federalist ^
| 02/19/2024 | Nathan Stone
Ask why, exactly, we need to bring woolly mammoths back to life after 4,000 years, and the answers become numerous and hideously predictable.To paraphrase Jeff Goldblum in “Jurassic Park,” just because you can do something doesn’t mean you should — even if that something is “cool.”Ben Lamm and Eriona Hysolli recently took
to Newsweek to announce that they and their team at Colossal Biosciences are bringing the woolly mammoth back to life. This is not a pie-in-the-sky pseudo-sci fi dream that might happen at some undefined future date. “Our first mammoth calves will be born in 2028,” they declare.The plan...
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Rare discovery: Fully intact mammoth jaw found in Florida’s gator-infested waters
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WSVN TV-7 ^
| NOVEMBER 17, 2023 | BY CAROLINA BORGES
Fort Myers, Fla. (WSVN) — A fossil enthusiast near Fort Myers stumbled upon an extraordinary find, unearthing a fully intact mammoth jaw believed to be around 10,000 years old from the waters teeming with alligators. John
Kreatsoulas, the fossil finder from Fossil Junkies Dig and Dive Charters, expressed his amazement. “I grabbed onto it just to hold on for a second and I realized ‘Wait a second, that’s not a tree, that was a mammoth,'” he said. The remarkable discovery was made in an area known for its alligator presence. Currently working to restore the ancient jaw, Kreatsoulas plans to...
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Mammoth Mountain ski season kicks off less than 100 days after last season ended
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ktla ^
| Nov 10, 2023 | Travis Schlepp
Visitors can expect the following arrangements for the opening weekend: All skiing and riding operations will be centered around Main Lodge — Canyon Lodge and The Mill will remain closed. Mammoth
Mountain will operate Broadway Express (1), the lower Panorama Gondola to McCoy, and Face Lift Express (3), offering access to Broadway, Saddle Bowl and Times Square for skiing and riding. The Panorama Gondola will run to the summit for Scenic Rides exclusively on Fridays through Sundays. Chairlifts will operate from 8:30 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.. There will be no beginner terrain available during this initial period. Mammoth Unbound will...
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California's Mammoth Mountain is wrapping up its second-longest season after 275 days
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NPR ^
| 08/04/2023 | Dustin Jones
The lifts at Mammoth Mountain in California will stop spinning Sunday after an incredible season spanning 275 days — the second-longest ski season in the resort's recorded history — and nearly 900 inches of record-breaking snowfall. Tucked
into the Eastern Sierra Mountains, Mammoth is California's highest ski resort at just over 11,000 feet. And though it's not unusual for the mountain to stay open into late spring, a nine-month season stretching into August has only happened two other times in the resort's 70-year history. "This year on July 4th, almost the entire upper mountain was open. It was basically full...
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SpaceX prepares to launch its mammoth rocket 'Starship'
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NPR ^
| April 16, 20236:00 AM ET | Geoff Brumfiel
...150-minute window that opens at 8 a.m. Eastern on Monday, April 17. Standing
at nearly 400 feet tall, Starship is made of gleaming stainless steel, an unusual choice in a business where every pound of weight matters. SpaceX started out looking at advanced, lightweight composites for Starship...steel was cheap, abundant, and most importantly, incredibly tough. It could hold cryogenic rocket fuel and tolerate the grueling heat of re-entry better than other materials. The rocket also uses an unconventional fuel choice – methane. Most high-powered rockets use hydrogen for fuel because it is lightweight and highly efficient... ...methane does have some...
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Cultured meat firm resurrects woolly mammoth in lab-grown meatball
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TechCrunch ^
| March 28, 2023 | Paul Sawers
Truth, as the saying goes, is often stranger than fiction. The
very notion of resurrecting the long-extinct woolly mammoth was the stuff of fantasy not that long ago, but scientists are already working on ways to achieve something close to that, using DNA from soft-tissue in frozen mammoth remains and meshing it with that of a modern-day elephant. But while such “de-extinction” projects may or may not ultimately succeed, one company is already laying claim to having produced the first meat product made from mammoth DNA. Vow, an Australian cultivated food company that creates meat in a laboratory setting from...
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Woolly Mammoth Giant Meatball Made by Scientists and it Was 'Ridiculously Easy'
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Daily Star ^
| 28 MAR 2023 | Harry Thompson
Meat consumption is coming under fire from a number of different parts of society, but now a savvy firm that blends the worlds of science and food might have a solution that can keep everyone happyA meatball has been made using the DNA of a woolly mammoth, and apparently, it wasn’t very
difficult. The miraculous feat of making a meatball out of something that hasn't existed for more than 4,000 years was achieved by an Australian outfit called Vow. The resurrection approach is a fresh take on meeting the growing demand from consumers who don’t want to kill anything to...
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Meatball from long-extinct mammoth created by food firm
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Guardian ^
| Tue 28 Mar 2023 01.00 EDT | Damian Carrington Environment editor
<p>A mammoth meatball has been created by a cultivated meat company, resurrecting the flesh of the long-extinct animals.</p><p>The project aims to demonstrate the potential of meat grown from cells, without the slaughter of animals, and to highlight the link between large-scale livestock production and the destruction of wildlife and the climate crisis.</p>
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Scientists Are Reincarnating the Woolly Mammoth to Return in 4 Years-Hello, old friend.
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Popular Mechanics ^
| JAN 30, 2023 | TIM NEWCOMB
Colossal recently added $60 million in funding to move toward a 2027 de-extinction of the woolly mammoth. The
Dallas-based company is now working to edit the genes for the reincarnation of the mammal. Colossal planned to reintroduce the woolly mammoth into Russia, but that may shift. The long-dead woolly mammoth will make its return from extinction by 2027, says Colossal, the biotech company actively working to reincarnate the ancient beast. Last year, the Dallas-based firm scored an additional $60 million in funding to continue the, well, mammoth gene-editing work it started in 2021. If successful, not only will Colossal bring...
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Mammoth Mountain Closes Because Of Too Much Snow. ( California )
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USSA News ^
| January 12, 2023 | Constitutional Nobody
Global warming’ alarmist spewed nothing but climate doom last summer about how the world would imminently burn if no ‘government’ actions were taken. The
folks operating Mammoth Mountain in the Eastern Sierra might be perplexed about that assumption considering they’ve had to shutter operations this week because of too much snow. A moisture conveyor belt of atmospheric rivers for nearly three weeks has pounded lower elevations of Commie California with record amounts of rain. As for higher elevations, such as the area where Mammoth is located, feet of snow buried the region. ... “Due to continued intense snowfall, very difficult...
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Mammoth discovery in Mexico during grave excavations
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Heritage Daily ^
| December 2021 | editors / unattributed
Researchers from the Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia (INAH) have identified the remains of a mammoth in the town of Los Reyes de Juárez, Mexico.The mammoth was uncovered in one of the towns municipal cemeteries whilst workers were preparing new graves.Upon further inspection, biologist Iván Alarcón Durán identified that they were
the bones of megafauna from the Pleistocene, with initial studies suggesting the remains are an elderly male Columbian mammoth.The Columbian mammoth (mammuthus columbi) inhabited North America as far north as the northern United States and as far south as Costa Rica during the Pleistocene epoch. DNA studies shows...
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Ancient Mammoth Tusk Recovered Deep off the Coast of the Monterey Bay
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KSBW ^
| Nov 22, 2021 | Josh Copitch
Researchers with Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (MBARI) found and extracted a mammoth tusk deep under the ocean. According
to MBARI, their team spotted the tusk 185 miles offshore and 10,000 feet deep on top of a seamount in 2019. They returned on July 2021 to bring the tusk to the surface. "The researchers have confirmed that the tusk—about one meter (just over three feet) in length—is from a Columbian mammoth (Mammuthus columbi)," reported the institute. They believe it could be the oldest well-preserved mammoth tusk recovered from this area of North America. The Columbian mammoth went extinct around 11,500...
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Amnesty Amendment Sneakily Attached to Mammoth Budget Reconciliation Bill
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US Incorporated ^
| September 17th, 2021 | Allan Wall
Regarding immigration, there’s a lot going on now, including the ongoing Biden Border Surge and the Afghan Resettlement Plan. But don’t take your eyes off Congress. Something being cooked up there would make the current situation even worse – much worse. It’s
a proposed amnesty for illegal aliens, to grant them legal status. It's attached to the gigantic 3.5 trillion dollar budget reconciliation bill. Sneaky, huh?
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Bioscientists Have an Ambitious New Plan to Resurrect The Extinct Woolly Mammoth
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https://www.sciencealert.com ^
| 14 SEPTEMBER 2021 | Staff
It is the elephant in the genomics room: can extinct species be resurrected? One
bioscience firm insists they can, announcing Monday its intent to use emerging technology to restore the woolly mammoth to the Arctic tundra. New company Colossal, capitalizing on a partnership with a Harvard geneticist, said its species "de-extinction" effort has the potential to anchor a working model for restoring damaged or lost ecosystems and thereby help slow or even halt the effects of climate change. "Never before has humanity been able to harness the power of this technology to rebuild ecosystems, heal our Earth and preserve its...
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The Return of the Woolly mammoth! Ice Age species could be brought back from extinction to fight CLIMATE CHANGE
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Daily Mail ^
Woolly mammoths could be brought back from extinction within six years in the form of elephant–mammoth hybrids, a new scientific project has claimed. Having
once lived across much of Europe, North America and northern Asia, the iconic Ice Age species went into a terminal decline some 10,000 years ago. The demise of the creatures — which could grow to some 11–12 feet tall and weigh up to 6 tonnes — has been linked to warming climates and hunting by our ancestors. Now, a US-based bioscience and genetics company, Colossal, has succeeded in raising $15 million (£10.8 million) in funding to...
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China elephants: Herd on mammoth 500km trek reaches Kunming
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BBC ^
| 3 June 2021 | BBC
A herd of elephants that packed its trunks for an unexpected 500km (300 mile) trek has arrived at a Chinese city where millions of people live. The
15 elephants have been hoovering up crops and poking their noses through doors on the march from the south of Yunnan province to its capital Kunming. A big effort - with tonnes of food - is under way to try and keep them safe. It is unclear why they left their habitat to embark on the journey, which has captivated residents and experts. Some have suggested an inexperienced leader may have led the...
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Gigantic bone of an Ice Age Mammoth found in Florida river
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SS ^
| 5/2/21 | SS
That’s a rare find in Florida! A giant bone of a Mammoth dating back to the Ice Age was just found in the Peace River near Arcadia this week. The
4-foot, 50-pound bone is well over 10,000 years old! For two Florida scuba divers, ancient history resurfaced when they discovered a 4-foot, 50-pound mammoth bone dating back to the ice age. Derek Demeter and Henry Sadler, both avid explorers and amateur paleontologists, made their big discovery when diving in the dark waters of the Peace River near Arcadia on April 25. “[Henry] came up, and he’s like, ‘Derek, I found...
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