Hi everyone welcome to the A6 and Z podcast. I'm Sonol and as your primary

host editor and showrunner here of the past seven years I wanted to share some of my

very favorite just a few selected episodes for you on this feed as I get ready to make a change and as we get ready to relaunch this show with a new host.

The first of these three episodes is a conversation that originally took place in summer 2017, but both

the work discussed in here on making a really wild, quite literally wild, geoengineering idea at

massive scale real is still actively being

discussed relevant and at play today it's on bringing back lab-grown woolly

mammoths which was also discussed in the 2020 documentary,

Witt Stewart Brand, we are as gods. But I'm sharing this episode as a personal

all-time favorite, also because the meta-theam is all about how we humans can and do use

the power of narrative to drive great feats of change, including engineering.

This has been a signature theme for me in forming the identity of the A6 and Z podcast, and the conversation that follows is one that takes place among three tech and science editors, including our former colleague Hannah, who is also a host on this

podcast for four years. Hi everyone, welcome to the A6C and C

podcast. I'm Sonal. Today, Hanna and I are doing another one of our

on the road shows from Washington, D.C. and today's guest is

Ross Anderson, senior editor for The Atlantic's Science, Health and Technology Coverage.

And he wrote a story earlier this year in the April issue called Welcome to Pleistocene Park,

which you don't have to have read to follow this conversation.

But here's what you do need to know.

A small group, a very small group in fact, of Russian scientists in Arctic Siberia are trying to resurrect an ice age

biome complete with lab-grown woolly mammots through a scheme for rewilding grassland instead of forest.

And while we focus on the particulars of all that in this episode in a hallway style

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