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Ben Lamm
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Ben Lamm
@BenLamm
Present: @Colossal Past: Founder w/ exits to @liveperson @zynga @accenture. Love startups, science, defense, space. Fellow/Board of Trustee @explorersclub
Meet Romulus and Remus - The world's first dire wolves in 12,500 years.
- Meet Romulus, when he was a four week old puppy. The world's first dire wolf in 12,500 years. @colossal bringing magic to life.
- TIME's new cover: The dire wolf is back after over 10,000 years. Here's what that means for other extinct species ti.me/4jlJB54
- Replying to @PalmerLuckey and @colossalDWs are 99.5% gray wolves. We focused on the core genes that made DWs, DWs. I use the Jurassic Park argument all the time - either they were dinosaurs or genetically modified birds with dinosaur and frog alleles. Haters just want to hate. Also speciation is a HUMAN made
- Today I‘m excited to share a first look at @hypergiant's Eos Bioreactor. This started with a question: why isn‘t climate change fixable? And, ended with an answer: we need to look more aggressively at algae. bit.ly/2lUL4b4
00:00 - “You develop an instant global consciousness, a people orientation, an intense dissatisfaction with the state of the world, and a compulsion to do something about it. From out there on the moon, international politics look so petty.” - Edgar Mitchell
- Most people do not even know that the classification of the vast majority of the phylogenetic tree is based solely on morphology and most has not be sequenced. (even know Colossal has more dire wolf DNA and analysis than anyone in the world).
- Incredible weekend with @IOHK_Charles in Wyoming. Thanks for the amazing hospitality, friendship, and memories.
