Woolly Mammoth Chronicles

On Human Stem Cell Creation (plus, Dr Heinz Doofenschmirtz)

2013-05-15T23:00:00.002-07:00

More Adventures in Cloning by Jude Cowell If you're fretfully uncertain about the wisdom of Science's whole cloning endeavor, here's a disturbing headline: Stem Cells Produced from Cloning Technique for First Time in which the journal Cell is cited for its report that human embryos which are copies of living people have been used to make stem cells. An up-side is that this breakthrough

If They Clone the Woolly Back

2013-04-19T20:34:00.002-07:00

Another Poem of Woolly Mammoth Fret by Jude Cowell When Woolly Mammoth walked the earth he was the latest thing but if they clone a Woolly back such stomping it will bring. jc 4/19/13 The above (thankfully very brief) verse was composed on the spot just for you! And little did I realize that a while back my Scottish friend, astrologer and author Anne Whitaker, wrote a lovely piece

Odes and Sonnets! Shakespeare stored on DNA!

2013-01-27T12:36:00.001-08:00

Good news for fans of William Shakespeare who'd like a more modern way to enjoy his work and don't mind messing with a double helix of literary proportions! Scientists have stored all 154 of Shakespeare's sonnets on snippets of DNA. Whether this act of preservation will inspire high school students to find new fascination within the works of The Bard of Avon is unknown. Do I feel some kind

Woolly Mammoth Tooth Found: a Rhyme Results!

2012-12-06T14:02:00.000-08:00

Today is December 6, 2012 and it seems like an era has passed since I posted here on Woolly Mammoth Chronicles. A new baby in the house is one reason for my busy-ness and publishing articles and horoscopes to my Political Astrology blog is another. Returning to WMC to find that some of the videos I embedded here have been removed due to "copyright infringement" grumps me up for it's not as if

Bigfoot: The Mysterious Monster (full 1976 film on video)

2012-06-22T15:03:00.001-07:00

Well, it's been way too long since I had a chance to post here at WMC and I'm finding this related video of a 1976 documentary irresistible and must embed it right away. I actually remember seeing this vintage film with actor Peter Graves hosting years ago and though there are no Woolly Mammoths stomping about, you may enjoy a look at an Ice Age topic, elusive though its creature may be! It's

Those Stinky Dinosaurs! (Thom Hartmann video)

2012-05-10T11:54:00.000-07:00

Yucky yuck yuck! Here's progressive broadcaster Thom Hartmann reporting on the apparent environmental effects of excessive gas-passing which scientists say may have issued forth in abundance from the distended bellies of prehistoric dinosaurs. My question: Even the veggie dinos? Then perhaps Beano would have proven useful! As far as I know, there's no word yet from scientists concerning a

Live Woolly Mammoth crosses river--or does he? (video)

2012-02-11T12:31:00.000-08:00

February 11, 2012 Athens, GeorgiaWhy did the Woolly cross the creek? To get caught in a blurry video!Having not lurked about this blog of fretful Woolly Mammoth rhymes for a while, it is with a measure of gladness that I announce to you a fresh post to my Gather.com page inspired by a newly written Ode and dedicated to my fellow Gatherers, past and present, who by happenstance may roam about one

Smuggling Mammoth Tusks from Alaska a bad idea

2011-12-23T04:50:00.000-08:00

Have you heard? A December 16, 2011 indictment charges Alaska river guide Karen Jettmar with two felonies--conspiracy and helping a client smuggle a 10,000 year-old mammoth tusk to Pennsylvania.What use anyone in Pennsylvania has for a purloined mammoth tusk, I can't say, but I bet the author of The Alaska River Guide wishes she hadn't followed a criminal course, don't you?This calls for the

The Ghost in Your Genes (full video) and old Granny

2011-12-12T14:25:00.000-08:00

The Ghost in Your GenesA Documentary by BBC HorizonSpeaking of DNA and other fascinating topics, have you seen this BBC presentation before? Then if you wish, harken ye back to old Granny and Grampy, pour the cider-tinis, and relax for a spell...your ancestors' environments and events such as famine can trigger your health on a cellular level:~:~Around here, busy-ness abounds around the holidays

Human Embryo Cloning sparks an Ode to a Woolly Mammoth

2011-10-08T06:14:00.000-07:00

Hello again!As you've heard by now, it is being reported that researchers have made recent advances in the cloning of human embryos so may we infer that the cloning of a Woolly Mammoth cannot be far behind?Well! What good would the return of such a beast to Earth do for mankind? Unavoidably, this embryo-cloning news puts a bit of performance anxiety upon the ethereal wings of the Odes to a Woolly

An Ancient Spider's 3D video!

2011-05-26T06:56:00.001-07:00

Well, it's hard to resist embedding this video of an ancient spider in 3D yet hopefully scientists have no plan to resusitate such ancient arachnids by cloning their DNA as they do for woolly mammoths! Oh dear. Now the spider poetry muse has landed, web and all...is it feelin' itchy it here to you?Yo! ancient spider in 3Ddon't land upon my arm or kneenor spin a web around my deskyou may be old

Will Cloned Mice Aid a Woolly Mammoth Return?

2011-05-14T07:43:00.000-07:00

Do you suppose that the ongoing nuclear meltdown at Fukushima Japan has slowed scientists' efforts to clone a woolly mammoth?Well, in January 2011 it was reported that Prof. Akira Iritani of Tokyo University thinks he has a "reasonable chance" of cloning an Ice Age mammoth within a few years by using what has been learned from cloned mouse cells. The earthquake, tsunami, and subsequent nuclear

Triceratops Panic w a Fret about Woolly Mammoth Cloning

2011-04-14T12:29:00.000-07:00

Have you heard there's a Triceratops Panic going on?Seems that in popular culture we get used to the Science News we like and then get huffy when it's updated by further discoveries. What we've known for years as a 'Triceratops' may be only a teen on its way to becoming a full-grown Torosaurus.Oops! Kind of like the change of status astronomers visited upon little Pluto a while back yet as an

A Woolly Mammoth in Fringe?

2011-03-28T07:57:00.000-07:00

Fringe can be an amusing word, can't it? In the UK it refers to what we in America call, bangs (which is also an amusing word when used for hair) but these days, the word 'fringe' has an entertainment vibe, too. In America 'Fringe' is the title of my favorite Sci-Fi TV series these last few years so here's a trailer from the program in case you wish to indulge yourself. Then, if you stick around

Cavort w a Prehistoric Fox? (Fantastic Mr Fox video)

2011-02-21T14:02:00.000-08:00

A question everyone is asking: Was Prehistoric Man's Best Friend a Fox?Well, if so, it's quite doubtful that prehistoric foxes of the oldest days were anywhere near as dapper, suave, or forward-looking as the leading fox in Fantastic Mr. Fox, one of my favorite films of 2009! And you just know they didn't speak elegant French back then. Okay, so there was no French in prehistoric days. But the

How Smart to Clone a Woolly Mammoth?

2011-02-02T17:52:00.000-08:00

Do you know that genome hacking could reverse-engineer a woolly mammoth back to life?Click? Yes, but beware: the article contains an artist's portrait of a woolly so personable that its charming visage may melt your heart...plus, a photo of a mammoth's hank of hair which to my eye closely favors "that thing on Donald Trump's head," as David Letterman often calls it.Well, maybe it's just me but I

Weird Science? Cave of Huge Crystals found in Mexico!

2011-01-28T11:19:00.001-08:00

Here is a photo-video showing the recent discovery of an amazing Cave of Crystals in Mexico. If you've never used crystals for healing purposes, they're worth exploring. Personally I like to keep amethyst, citrine, and quartz around, just in case, for if nothing else, they're helpful and soothing when used in massage therapies.As you see, these crystals are mammoth-sized and may aid a cloned

Excited about Cloning a Woolly Mammoth?

2011-01-25T08:21:00.001-08:00

Yes, these days the news rings far and wide that Japanese, Russian, and American scientists will be ready to clone a woolly mammoth in approximately five or six years.That's certainly enough time for another Ode to a Woolly Mammoth!If clones of mammoth float your boatyou won't much like the Odes i wrotedon't read them now for they are fretfulcloning woollies sounds quite dreadful.jc 2011Guess not

There's a Mammoths Dominate Society!

2011-01-15T09:38:00.000-08:00

Quite a discovery has been made by this blogger today: the Mammoths Dominate Society! Its blog link has been added to the Woolly Mammoth Chronicles sidebar under 'Science Sites & Blogs' since my own frets and misgivings about woolly mammoth cloning need all the soothing and hopeful assessments they can get.How grand to find another blog focused upon the ancient yet soon-returning Woolly Mammoth!

Poems of Woolly Mammoth frets

2011-01-09T21:25:00.000-08:00

No Science News or links for you this post, just a freshly invented Ode to a Woolly Mammoth. You see, snow and sleet began to fall around 9:00 pm and they're predicting several inches here in northeast Georgia (near Athens.) And it's always the ice content that ends up damaging lines and disrupting our power supply so we'll see if we freeze under our blankets by morning.Guess we'll know we're

How Do You Like Your Woolly Mammoth? results are in!

2011-01-05T07:17:00.000-08:00

As you see to your right (until I remove it), your Woolly Mammoth poll results are in. The How Do You Like Your Woolly Mammoth? tallies are: 9 (75%) voted for "Asleep, as always", 2 (16%) voted "Cloned and resurrected" (really?), and 1 hardy soul (8%) went for "In a petting zoo."Well done, you guys! However, no one voted for "Rare with a side of coleslaw" but it's undetermined whether it was the

Were Yukon's Woolly Mammoths Good Moms?

2010-12-30T12:48:00.000-08:00

Recent woolly mammoth research indicates that woolly mammoths of the Yukon region babied their little woollies considerably longer than other species. Why, it's plum sweet, the coziness of it all! And of course, every mom of any species thinks her baby is as cute as a bunny button. Well, aren't they? Not as sweet or cute, however, may be this, your last installment of my Odes to a Woolly Mammoth

Did vegetables kill the Neanderthal?

2010-12-28T08:42:00.000-08:00

Of course not, silly! Broccoli is relatively harmless, squash never squashes anything, and most carrots are our BFF.Yet to quote yesterday's BBC News report, "Researchers in the US have found grains of cooked plant material in their teeth." That would be plant materials found in Neanderthal teeth, not between the researchers' moofies. (You can be so silly sometimes!) Therefore, the old

On Kids' Books about Woolly Mammoths

2010-12-24T16:56:00.000-08:00

Imagine my surprise when moseying about the Net to find a children's book about a bunch of woolly mammoths. The Little Pink Book of the Woolly Mammoth tells a tale of desperate mammoths and ice floes and...well, check out the very woolly adventure!Yes, there may be more such books about woollies yet even so, I want to publish a Woolly Mammoth Chronicles book of poems and drawings. If it's managed

Time to Celebrate! (while Woolly Mammoths sleep)

2010-12-23T12:59:00.001-08:00

As of today, 81% of voters in this blog's woolly mammoth poll (sidebar, upper right) have been of the persuasion that the great woolly mammoth should stay sleeping, God willing. Yet there are 7 days left in which to vote so please register your opinion however and as you wish!Also, you'll find a 'prosecute Julian Assange for treason?' poll in the sidebar of Stars Over Washington, if you desire to