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Ryan Phelan: Bringing Biotech to Wildlife Conservation

Long Now: Seminars About Long-term Thinking

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The Role of AI in the Evolution of Moskitoes

There are five species of Hawaii in Hawaii, some that carry human pathogens. The big challenge is, as these island temperatures rise, the birds who used to seek a refuge at higher altitudes now can't go any higher and the mosquitoes are going as high as they can. People just drive them down, and they're going to have to keep reintroducing these mosquitoes over time. But there is a solution: An organic substance called Wolbachia which causes infertility in the mosquito.

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