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Nathaniel Rich, Ryan Phelan, Ben Novak: Second Nature: Green Rabbits, Passenger Pigeons, Cloned Ferrets, and the Birth of a New Ecology

Long Now: Seminars About Long-term Thinking

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The Final Story, and in Second Nature, Is Called N Rabbit

The final story, and in second nature, is called n rabbit. It's about this art scandal a years ago, where a chicago artist named edward cats created the neon green bunny rabbit. And it turned and people freaked out, and they said, you know, how dare you design a specie s for enough for art? But he hadn't actually done anything. He just, these rabbits were being created by french institutes to do research on vaccines and another thing, and other kinds of human medicine. Ah, that peoplefreaked out. E he had reflected what was going on already. i think there's real value in that kind of work because most of us don

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