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A young woolly mammoth now known as Yuka
was frozen in the Siberian permafrost for about 40,000 years
before it was discovered by local tusk hunters in 2010.
The hunters soon handed it over to scientists,
who were excited to see its exquisite level of preservation,
with skin, muscle tissue, and even reddish hair intact.
Later research showed that,
while full cloning was impossible,
Yuka’s DNA was in such good condition that some cell nuclei co…

World’s oldest RNA extracted from Ice Age woolly mammoth
Sequencing an ancient creature’s RNA opens up a new window into extinct life.

World’s Oldest Poisoned Arrowheads Date Back 60,000 Years, Show Hunters’ Knowledge of Toxins https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/worlds-oldest-poisoned-arrowheads-date-back-60000-years-show-hunters-knowledge-of-toxins/

World’s Oldest Poisoned Arrowheads Date Back 60,000 Years, Show Hunters’ Knowledge of Toxins
The research team identified chemical residues of poison from gifbol, a poisonous plant still used by traditional hunters in the region.

Oldest daughter update. It's a bread baking day, and the starter mix got a little excited overnight.
#Baking #Homemade

So I grew up next to #Chernobyl and this is, well, TERRIFYING.
A story for y’all: I’m from a city called Zhytomyr, 2 hours west of Kyiv in the North of #Ukraine. We were downwind of the Chernobyl #nuclear power plant when the 1986 disaster happened.
I wasn’t born for another 12 years, but my childhood was filled with stories and the aftermath of it all. Things like:
- My grandmother worked as a head doctor in a hospital and rehabilitation facility exclusively for children of Chernobyl victims to treat the extremely high prevalence of Tuberculosis and other severe health complications. (To specify: these were SECOND GENERATION of exposure).
- A lot of the kids in that facility were orphans, because their parents died young from health problems.
- My uncle’s wife was born in Pripyat. She was 1 year old when the disaster happened. Her parents were told to evacuate while given no information about what happened. They had to pack up their things and rush out to an unfamiliar city with their baby, never to see the rest of their belongings, apartment, or hometown again.
- When I was a kid, it became so common to see weirdly mutated animals and insects that even 2-3 year olds would make jokes about “Chernobyl mosquitos” and I wouldn’t even flinch seeing occasional giant bugs, dark frogs, weird-looking dogs.
- We’d frequently hear of nearby farms having issues with their animals being born too mutated to survive or random outbreaks from contaminated water / food. Crops would randomly fail. People would get poisoned on a regular basis. This all got less common as I grew up.
- My mother still remembers being a little girl, 10 years old, and looking outside from their balcony at the clouds blowing over from Chernobyl that day. People were told to not go outside and to shut all the windows, but not given an explanation as to why. My mother swears that the rain looked different. They weren’t able to go and buy more food for the kitchen for multiple days.
Anyway - nuclear safety isn’t a joke. I don’t understand how this level of carelessness can happen after Chernobyl and Fukushima.

https://www.404media.co/power-companies-are-using-ai-to-build-nuclear-power-plants/

The calendar service I use (Infomaniak's kSuite) started complaining that some calendars I import as ICS URLs (Google calendars of relatives and associations) were "too big".
It refuses to synchronize calendars that contain more than 25,000 events.
So I created a small proxy, to filter the oldest events, and now my calendar and I are happy.
For any calendar https://original-calendar/file.ics, I now give it:
https://my-service/ics-filter?url=https://origina…

ics-filter
An HTTP proxy service to filter events in ICS URLs

A small town in Alberta has its own 'ramen library'
#Canada

A small town in Alberta has its own 'ramen library'
So many options! 🍜

This is lovely https://mastodon.gamedev.place/@godotengine/115543655213589423

The abandoned English clay pit
at Barnham is
the oldest evidence in the world
that people (Neanderthal people, in this case)
had learned to not only use fire,
but also create it and control it.
https://arstechnica.com/science/2025/1

This is the oldest evidence of people starting fires
We didn’t start the fire. (Neanderthals did, at least 400,000 years ago.)…

Good Morning #Canada
Our #CanadianCapitals feature today is the oldest European settlement in North America as well as the most eastern city on the continent. Despite a history that goes back to he 1490s, St. John's Newfoundland was incorporated as a city in 1921 and became a provincial capital in 1949 upon joining Canada. The natural harbour served explorers and fishermen for centuries, and the settlement survived pirates, attacks by the French, and several devastating fires. If the Portuguese had more influence, it would have been named Rio de San Johem, which is a missed opportunity.
#CanadaIsAwesome
https://thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/st-johns