passenger pigeons
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Weekly Geekery
Requiem for a pigeon. Fiction meets reality in space. Our Lord and Savior, science fiction. The right to know vs. the right to be forgotten. The proliferation of nerd. How technology is changing the spoiler.
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Welcome to the Clone Zone
Via Longreads, a Carl Zimmer story on his National Geographic blog about bringing lost species back from extinction. Dinosaurs are probably out of the question because their remains are too old to contain usable DNA, but according to “an expert on mammoth DNA at McMaster…