They’re Going to Bring Back a Mammoth

Edith Zimmerman
The Hairpin
Published in
1 min readJan 19, 2011

The Japanese are on a mission to clone wooly mammoths, and they’re aiming to produce a baby in as few as four years. You know what they didn’t talk about in Jurassic Park? That people would constantly be trying to kill the dinosaurs and eat them, which will be this mammoth’s problem, too. “What does it taste like?” we’ll wonder. “We couldn’t possibly kill it, though — we just made it! But you really can’t help wondering sometimes. Not all the time, just sometimes. Rarely, if ever. No, I guess more than rarely. Are there always guards around it?”

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Edith Zimmerman
The Hairpin

Spiralbound editor. Formerly at The Hairpin. Also now making a newsletter: https://drawinglinks.substack.com