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Report on the First De-Extinction Meeting and Other Revivalist News
36 scientists, 25 presentations, 5,000 words to cover them all. Lots of news. Also the first announcement of the TEDx DeExtinction conference in Washington DC on March 15. Introducing our...
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Revive & Restore presents TEDxDeExtinction – March 15
Where molecular and conservation biology meet, a new scientific field is emerging: De-extinction. Scientific and technological advances are making the prospect of reviving extinct species a realistic...
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Long Now Board Members at TED 02013
This year’s TED conference has two of Long Now’s board members presenting, Stewart Brand and Danny Hillis. Although the videos will not be published on the TED site until later this year, some...
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TEDxDeExtinction: A Primer
This Friday, March 15th, Long Now’s Revive & Restore project, in partnership with the National Geographic Society, are hosting TEDxDeExtinction, an independently organized TED event. To be held at...
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Stewart Brand Seminar Primer
Stewart Brand (left) with Ben Novak, the scientist working on reviving the passenger pigeon. “Reviving Extinct Species” Tuesday May 21st, 02013 at the SF JAZZ Center, San Francisco From promoting the...
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Arctic Revelations
Though the Arctic can seem like one of the most inhospitable regions of our planet, it provides unique opportunities to scientists seeking to understand life and its many manifestations. Recent...
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Scientists recover 700,000-year-old genome
There’s an upper limit to how long DNA can last due to the way it decays – dinosaurs, for instance, lived far too long ago for their DNA to still be readable – but scientists recently recovered and...
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Revive & Restore Sequences Extinct Passenger Pigeon DNA
Revive & Restore’s passenger pigeon expert, Ben Novak, has been working for months to gather samples of DNA from 77 specimens of the extinct bird. Our first glimpses of data confirmed that the...
View ArticleStewart Brand: Reviving Extinct Species — A Seminar Flashback
In May 02013 Stewart Brand discussed De-extinction and one of Long Now’s latest projects Revive and Restore. Bringing back extinct species is a scientific pursuit that is loaded with both cultural and...
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Ecological Anachronisms
Evolution is a diligent innovator and the diversity it has achieved offers the curious seemingly unending marvels. In some cases, though, a particular innovation might not make much sense on initial...
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Revive & Restore Update at the Commonwealth Club September 18, 02014
On Thursday, September 18th, Ryan Phelan and Stewart Brand will be giving an update on the Revive & Restore project at the Commonwealth Club of California. The talk will explore the flagship...
View ArticleStewart Brand Keynote Video from 02014 Evernote Conference
On October 3rd 02014, Stewart Brand delivered the keynote address for the Evernote EC4 conference. Evernote is a service that allows people to collect information, notes, bookmarks, and create a...
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Royal Ontario Museum Passenger Pigeons Now on Display at the Interval
photo by Catherine Borgeson Visitors to The Interval can now view two stunning passenger pigeon specimens on loan from the Royal Ontario Museum. The Royal Ontario Museum (ROM) houses the world’s...
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Ferreting the Genome
Revive & Restore Unveils Open Genomics for Conservation Initiative Revive & Restore is embarking on its first open-access science initiative – Ferreting the Genome: Open Genomics for...
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Neal Stephenson at The Interval: May 21, Book Signing and Livestream
Neal Stephenson speaks at The Interval on May 21, 02015. Photo by Kelly O’Connor Best-selling author Neal Stephenson will visit The Interval at Long Now in San Francisco to read from and sign his new...
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Beth Shapiro Seminar Media
This lecture was presented as part of The Long Now Foundation’s monthly Seminars About Long-term Thinking. How to Clone a Mammoth Monday May 11, 02015 – San Francisco Video is up on the Shapiro Seminar...
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Ryan Phelan speaking at World Wildlife Fund Fuller Symposium
On November 18 02015, Ryan Phelan, Executive Director of Revive and Restore, will be speaking at the Fuller Symposium in Washington D.C. on how recent advances in biotech can aid conservation efforts....
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Is the Great Auk a Candidate for De-Extinction?
On June 25 and 26, 2015, a meeting was held at the International Centre for Life in Newcastle, England, to discuss whether the extinct Great Auk–a once-common flightless pelagic bird known as “the...
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Could Reviving the Woolly Mammoth Help Solve Climate Change?
Kevin Tong, The Atlantic For over 100,000 years, wide swaths of the northern part of the globe were covered in grasslands where millions of bison, horses, and woolly mammoths grazed. Known as the...
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Galloping, GIFs and Genes: Geneticists Store Moving Image in Living Bacteria
In 01872, California Governor Leland Stanford hired the famed photographer Eadweard Muybridge to settle a question of popular debate—whether all four of a horse’s feet ever left the ground when it...
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