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 National Geographic’s headquarters in Washington, DC, the event will feature 25 talks about the emerging science of de-extinction. Speakers include practitioners in the field of molecular biology…  Read More

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 Although the videos will not be published on the TED site until later this year, some attendees graciously summarized and illustrated the talks for the rest of us. The cartoons below come from Fever Pitch, a group of…  Read More

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 goal. Revive & Restore is a project of The Long Now Foundation that seeks ecological enrichment through extinct species revival. A private meeting last fall, jointly organized with…  Read More

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 now-full-time reviver of passenger pigeons, Ben Novak, with Martha, the world’s last passenger pigeon, in the backrooms of The Smithsonian. Ben Novak is going to…  Read More