
Thu. 03/18 - Salmon Chaos & The Paris Commune
Today marks the 150th anniversary of the start of the Paris Commune––and it remains as controversial as ever. Scientists have grown a mouse embryo in an artificial womb and have set their sites on human embryos next, speaking of controversy... And...
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Today marks the 150th anniversary of the start of the Paris Commune––and it remains as controversial as ever. Scientists have grown a mouse embryo in an artificial womb and have set their sites on human embryos next, speaking of controversy... And why people in Taiwan keep legally changing their names to "Salmon."
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Links:
- Paris Commune: The revolt dividing France 150 years on (BBC)
- Lipstick Traces: A Secret History of the Twentieth Century by Greil Marcus
- Revolution, Rebellion, Resistance: The Power of Story by Eric Selbin
- The Paris Commune Is Still a Beacon for Radical Change (The Jacobin)
- Vive la Commune? The working-class insurrection that shook the world (The Guardian)
- A mouse embryo has been grown in an artificial womb—humans could be next (MIT Technology Review)
- Taiwan official urges people to stop changing their name to 'salmon' (The Guardian)
- Taiwan warns people against changing their name to 'Salmon' (Washington Post)
- This Salmon Was Burned Alive - A Series of Unfortunate Events (Netflix) Season 2 (YouTube)
- How Sperm Whales Learned to Collectively Outsmart 19th-Century Whalers (Kottke)
- Studying Humpback Whales to Better Communicate with Aliens (Kottke)
- Kottke.Org
- Jackson Bird on Twitter
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