📰 Noteworthy stories for today #33
Dinosaur Cowboys, Crypto Cruiseship Communities & Parachuting Beavers
Your round-up of interesting things I’ve read the last few weeks.
Dinosaur Cowboys hunting the next jackpot
Fulfilling that niche venn diagram of discovering ancient treasures of our history, living in idyllic landscapes and wearing a Stetson without looking like a twat are the cowboys that search for dinosaur fossils and sell them on for profits. But as this profile of Clayton Phipps details the trials and tribulations of selling his record breaking finds as well as the criticism he faces from the academic community. Read on Bloomberg Businessweek.
How not to build a floating Cryto-Utopia
Jumping from one world to another. What do you do when you have millions in crypto currency and a disdain for bureaucracy and regulation? You try to set up your own floating sovereign state of course. When cover struck and the tourism industry became dry docked, three crypto millionaires pooled together to buy up a discount cruise ship (one of the few designed by architect Renzo Piano) with the aim of selling their tiny cabins as a new sea bound way of life - before discovering that the oceans are some of the most regulated and law stricken areas on the planet. Read on The Guardian here.
Parachuting Beavers into the wilderness
We’ve had land, sea and now air. Believe it or not I’d actually heard about this story years ago somewhere forgotten to time but it always seemed like a bit of an exaggeration. Apparently not, in the 50’s the tried and tested way of relocation Beavers was actually fatale to a lot of them and so a new idea was proposed…and finally a video has been found of it on National Geographic. Read more here.
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M