Swift Makes Dream Come True for Injured Young Fan

Taylor Swift kicked off her ras Tour last month in lendale and while it was a big night for everyone who managed to snag tickets, it was an unforgettable night for year old Isabella McCune.

Five years ago, McCune spent nine months in the hospital after an accident left burns on more than percent of her body. Swift was on her eputations Tour in , the last time she toured until last month, when word reached Swift’s team about McCune’s accident.

McCune was years old when she recorded a message for her favorite singer, telling Swift how her music got her through her worst days and how it helped to keep her calm. Since McCune couldn’t go to Swift’s concert, Swift came to visit her young fan in the hospital!

The pop star snuck into the ri ona urn Center to sign autographs, pose for pictures, and promise McCune that when she was better, she could come to one of her concerts.

ith the help of a local radio station, Swift made good on her promise and recently surprised McCune with tickets to her concert for McCune and her family. The teenager had tried to buy tickets to the concert but wasn’t able to secure them before they sold out within minutes. McCune was beyond excited about her chance to go to the concert, calling it a once in a lifetime opportunity.

“Not only the fact that I was able to go and I got these tick ets gifted to me but also that they are from Taylor Swift and her team, and they remem bered me and thought of me to give me these tickets, McCune said.

She is certainly not wrong about it being such a unique opportunity the pop star’s ticket sales made national news last fall when they sold out in record time. Ticketmaster offered presale tickets and sold more than . million presale tickets. The high de mand, and Ticketmaster’s handling of the presale, led the company to cancel ticket sales for the general public.

Is Mammoth a Thing of the Past or the Future?

hat’s for dinner Suppose the answer was a mammoth meatball. ou would have to be pretty hungry. Not to say that it’s ginormous although it is pretty big but that it is a meatball actually made from wooly mammoth!

hile you might imagine eating with the Croods or the Flintstones to sample such a savory snack, a mammoth meatball was actually cultured, or grown, in a lab at an ustralian food company.

sing sequencing that IMITATED wooly mammoth N and filling in missing bits with the N from an frican elephant this massive meatball was unveiled in March. Scientists put the synthesi ed gene they created into a sheep cell and then cultured it. They ended up growing about grams, or

Seaweed Mass Heading to U.S.

giant blob of seaweed is slowly oating toward Florida’s beaches. The collection of seaweed weighs more than million tons, and stretches more than , miles twice the width of the continental nited States!

The seaweed at issue is called sargas sum, and it’s a leafy BUOYANT algae that collects and oats around the ocean. It’s nothing new for the seaweed to form large blooms in the tlantic cean. hat is new is how big these blooms are getting.

Scientists noticed more than years ago that the seaweed masses were becom ing large enough to be captured on satellite images. They originally thought it was just a particularly massive bloom, but have come to learn that the seaweed bloom has only gotten bigger and bigger each year.

SEAWEED MASS FACTS: USA

• idth of seaweed mass: , miles

• cean it’s oating in: tlantic

• Species of seaweed in existence: over ,

Seaweed Blob ounces, of mammoth meat in the lab. nce the giant blob approaches land, in this case Florida and other coastlines throughout the ulf of Mexico, it can really start to cause problems. large collection of seaweed like this can smother coral reefs and affect fishing. nce they reach land, the piles of sargassum can collect in piles sever al feet high and begin to rot after hours.

So, is mammoth going to be on the menu any time soon robably not. This experiment was mostly intended to start a conversation about the future of meat. e need to start rethinking how we get our food. My biggest hope for this project is that a lot more people across the world begin to hear about cultured meat, said ames yall, the company’s chief scientific officer.

There is no plan to have anyone chow down on this particular lab grown meat. In the .S., only lab grown chicken is approved for human con sumption. esearchers are not sure that the modern human digestive system could handle mammoth! They note that while our ancestors hunted and ate mam moth, this protein has not been a part of our diet for over , years. Instead, the meatball was sent to a museum of science and medicine in the Netherlands, the ijksmuseum oerhaave.

The rotting piles of seaweed will smell like manure or rotten eggs not exactly a pleas ant odor! It also releases chemical irritants that can be harmful to people with respiratory issues, such as asthma.

It may sound a little intimidating, and the giant blob currently headed for shorelines in the ulf of Mexico presents potential problems, but there are several companies trying to find ways to use the seaweed. It could make things ranging from biofuel to vegan leather. That’s because seaweed is very versatile!

In the ocean, it serves as a source of food and habitat for various wildlife, including fish, mammals, marine birds, crabs and sea turtles. There are a variety of types of sea weed, and it can be used for everything from fertili er to cosmetics. Seaweed is also used in food, and not just sushi. Certain seaweeds provide extracts used to help thicken things like pudding and chewing gum!