Thu. 03/18 - Salmon Chaos & The Paris Commune

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Reggie Risseeuw and Marques Pfaff

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🗓️ 19 March 2021

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Today marks the 150th anniversary of the start of the Paris Commune––and it remains as controversial as ever. Scientists have grown a mouse embryo in an artificial womb and have set their sites on human embryos next, speaking of controversy... And why people in Taiwan keep legally changing their names to "Salmon." Sponsors: StartMail, Get 50% off your first year at StartMail.com/kottke Skillshare, Get a free trial of Premium Membership at skillshare.com/kottke Links: Paris Commune: The revolt dividing France 150 years on (BBC) Lipstick Traces: A Secret History of the Twentieth Century by Greil Marcus Revolution, Rebellion, Resistance: The Power of Story by Eric Selbin The Paris Commune Is Still a Beacon for Radical Change (The Jacobin) Vive la Commune? The working-class insurrection that shook the world (The Guardian) A mouse embryo has been grown in an artificial womb—humans could be next (MIT Technology Review) Taiwan official urges people to stop changing their name to 'salmon' (The Guardian) Taiwan warns people against changing their name to 'Salmon' (Washington Post) This Salmon Was Burned Alive - A Series of Unfortunate Events (Netflix) Season 2 (YouTube) How Sperm Whales Learned to Collectively Outsmart 19th-Century Whalers (Kottke) Studying Humpback Whales to Better Communicate with Aliens (Kottke) Kottke.Org Jackson Bird on Twitter See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:28.7	welcome to the cocky ride home for th, March 18th, 2021. I'm Jackson Bird.
0:42.3	Today marks the 150th anniversary of the start of the Paris Commune, and it remains as controversial as ever.
0:51.9	Scientists have grown a mouse embryo in an artificial womb and have set their sights on
0:57.5	human embryos next, speaking of controversy, and why people in Taiwan keep legally changing their
1:06.5	names to salmon. Here are some of the cool things from the news today. Today, March 18th marks the
1:17.1	150th anniversary of the start of the Paris Commune. The two-month takeover of Paris by workers
1:23.9	and revolutionaries, the first urban proletariat revolution, was long one of the most
1:29.8	forgotten moments in France's revolutionary history, and yet in many ways one of the most influential.
1:37.3	Eric Selbin, chair of political science at Southwestern University, explains in his book, Revolution,
1:42.5	rebellion, and Resistance, The Power of Story, quote,
1:45.8	Perhaps more than with any other such moment, there has been an effort actively to forget the commune.
1:52.1	For example, during the 1989 bicentennial of the French Revolution, France's many revolutionary
1:56.9	moments were celebrated, but the commune was notably absent. The endeavor has been to
2:02.4	eliminate it not just from formal history, but from people's lived experience, to ensure that it does
2:08.5	not play a part in the popular repertoire, end quote. But what exactly was the Paris Commune,
2:15.6	and why have so many tried to obscure it from history
2:18.1	over the years? Quoting again from Selden, in 1870 during the Franco-Prussian War, Paris had been
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