{"id":20421,"date":"2013-03-27T17:27:29","date_gmt":"2013-03-27T17:27:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=20421"},"modified":"2013-03-27T17:27:29","modified_gmt":"2013-03-27T17:27:29","slug":"stewart-brand-on-de-extinction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=20421","title":{"rendered":"Stewart Brand on &#8220;De-extinction&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I found this talk fascinating.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Stewart_Bran\">Stewart Brand<\/a><\/strong>, well known activist, futurist and creator of the<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Whole_Earth_Catalog\"> <strong>Whole Earth Catalog<\/strong><\/a> and <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/longnow.org\/\">The Long Now Foundation<\/a><\/strong>, speaks here on the realities of &#8220;de-extinction&#8221; the bringing back of extinct species and (local) ecosystems through genetic engineering and radical hybridization.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/embed.ted.com\/talks\/stewart_brand_the_dawn_of_de_extinction_are_you_ready.html\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\nCome on&#8230;.you know you want the <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Woolly_mammoth\">Woolly Mammoth<\/a><\/strong> back!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I found this talk fascinating. Stewart Brand, well known activist, futurist and creator of the Whole Earth Catalog and The Long Now Foundation, speaks here on the realities of &#8220;de-extinction&#8221; the bringing back of extinct species and (local) ecosystems through genetic engineering and radical hybridization. &nbsp; &nbsp; Come on&#8230;.you know you want the Woolly Mammoth [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,220,451],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20421","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science","category-tech","category-ted"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20421","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20421"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20421\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20422,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20421\/revisions\/20422"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}