[Noisebridge-discuss] Fwd: [BerkTIPGlobal] Fwd: [SALT] De-extinction TONIGHT TUESDAY May 21 (for forwarding)

[giovanni_re]

On Tue, May 21, 2013, at 08:41 AM, Stewart Brand wrote:

I’ll be in concert at the new SFJAZZ Center (Fell and Franklin streets)
tonight, riffing on Long Now’s project to revive extinct species and
return them to the wild. (We’re hiring a Project Coordinator, if you
know someone who’s interested. Job description here.)

The event is sold out. But walk-ups always get in. And there’s the live
audio stream (see below).

"Reviving Extinct Species," Stewart Brand, SFJAZZ Center, Hayes Valley,
San Francisco, TONIGHT, 7pm, Tuesday, May 21. The show starts promptly
at 7:30pm.

• Tune into the live audio stream for Long Now Members at 7:30 PST - become a member for just $8 a month. Share this talk: Stewart Brand, "Reviving Extinct Species" Long Now talk on 5/21 http://goo.gl/d1qDp

The next SALT talks are: June 18 (Tue.) - Ed Lu, "Anthropocene
Astronomy: Thwarting Dangerous Asteroids Begins with Finding the Damn
Things" July 29 (Mon.) - Craig Childs, “Apocalyptic Planet: Field Guide
to the Everending Earth”

Tonight's event is one of a monthly series of Seminars About Long-term
Thinking (SALT) organized by The Long Now Foundation

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From: Stewart Brand <sb at longnow.org>
To: SALT list <salt at list.longnow.org>
Subject: [SALT] Extinct species perk up next TUESDAY May 21 (for
forwarding)
Date: Wed, 15 May 2013 09:46:45 -0700

The Long Now Foundation is working on bringing back some extinct
species, starting with the iconic passenger pigeon.  Eventually the
roster of revived species could include the woolly mammoth, the dazzling
Carolina parakeet, the Tasmanian tiger (thylacine), the ivory-billed
woodpecker, the great auk (penguin of the north seas), and hundreds of
others, including potentially the massive Steller’s sea cow that used to
graze our  kelp forests and the storied dodo.

Thanks to the accelerating capabilities of medical biotech, it is
becoming possible to take the DNA of extinct species in museum specimens
and some fossils (no dinosaurs) and bring it back to life via the
genomes of the closest living relatives of the extinct animals. 
Molecular biologists and conservation biologists are collaborating on
ways to bring the creatures all the way back to where they belong---in
the wild.

Long Now’s project, called Revive & Restore, began formally this year,
co-founded by me and my wife Ryan Phelan, who heads the enterprise. 
We’ve convened some 50 scientists at a sequence of three conferences on
“de-extinction,” the last one a highly public TEDxDeExtinction hosted by
National Geographic in March.  We’ve hired a full-time revivor of
passenger pigeons (and are looking to hire a project coordinator).  

Next Tuesday, at a brand new venue in San Francisco, the SFJAZZ Center,
I’ll report on the story so far and where it is heading over the next
century or two.

"Reviving Extinct Species," Stewart Brand, SFJAZZ Center, Hayes Valley,
San Francisco, 7pm, Tuesday, May 21.  The show starts promptly at
7:30pm.

To be sure of a seat:
• Long Now Members can use the discount code on the Brand Seminar page to reserve 2 free seats.
• You can purchase tickets for $15 each.
• Tune into the live audio stream for Long Now Members at 7:30 PST - become a member for just $8 a month.
Share this talk: Stewart Brand, "Reviving Extinct Species" Long Now talk
on 5/21 http://goo.gl/d1qDp 

Talks coming up:
June 18 (Tue.) - Ed Lu, "Anthropocene Astronomy: Thwarting Dangerous
Asteroids Begins with Finding the Damn Things"
July 29 (Mon.) - Craig Childs, “Apocalyptic Planet: Field Guide to the
Everending Earth”
Aug. 13 (Tue.) - Daniel Kahneman, "Thinking Fast and Slow"

High-quality videos of the talks and other benefits (such as priority
tickets) are available to Long now members.  Membership, which starts at
$8/month ($96/year), helps support the series and other Long Now
projects.  Joinable here.

This is one of a monthly series of Seminars About Long-term Thinking
(SALT) organized by The Long Now Foundation.  Free audio and my
summaries of all previous talks are available for download here (or stay
up to date with the podcast here).  You'll find a range of long-term
thinking items on our Blog (RSS).  If you would like to be notified by
email (like this one) of forthcoming talks, go here to sign up online. 
Any questions, contact Danielle Engelman at Long Now -- 415-561-6582 x1
or danielle at longnow.org.

You are welcome to forward this notice to anyone you think might be
interested.

 --Stewart Brand

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Stewart Brand -- sb at longnow.org
The Long Now Foundation -- http://longnow.org/
Revive & Restore -- http://longnow.org/revive/
Seminars & downloads -- http://longnow.org/seminars/
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•Long Now Blog - daily updates on events and ideas
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