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Thu. 03/18 - Salmon Chaos & The Paris Commune


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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)
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  • Jackson Bird on Twitter
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