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Hector Navarro (Geek & Sundry, @Hectorisfunny) joins us to talk about the new effort to genetically engineer Mammoths from Elephants, why eating meat from young animals might be healthier and 50,000 year-old bacteria found in a cave.
OLD FOOD MAKES YOU OLD
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2121585-you-are-what-you-eat-old-food-shortens-lifespan-in-animals/
WOOLY MAMMOTH! OKAY, MAMMOPHANT
https://www.engadget.com/2017/02/17/humanity-is-on-the-cusp-of-de-extincting-the-wooly-mammoth/
DOIN' ASTROBIOLOGY IN MEXICAN CAVES
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2017/02/crystal-caves-mine-microbes-mexico-boston-aaas-aliens-science/
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