Thu. 10/28 - Human Eggs Made From Blood Cells

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Reggie Risseeuw and Marques Pfaff

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4.6 • 739 Ratings

🗓️ 28 October 2021

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Could we one day create sperm and egg cells from any human cell, even across the sexes? Plus, how BJ Novak from The Office’s face ended up on products all around the world without him knowing. And the latest drops from two of the internet’s leading mischief-making companies, including Andy Warhol forgeries and a vegan cannibal steakhouse. Sponsor: NetSuite, netsuite.com/kottke Links: How Silicon Valley hatched a plan to turn blood into human eggs (MIT Technology Review) B.J. Novak’s Face Is on Products Worldwide. He’s Not Sure Why. (NY Times) Why BJ Novak Is The Face Of Random Products Worldwide (BuzzFeed) Museum of Forgeries (MSCHF) The Vegan Cannibal Steakhouse by Liquid Death (Liquid Death) Photoshop will get a 'prepare as NFT' option soon (The Verge) 5 unbelievable tech sneaks from Adobe Max 2021 (Creative Bloq) Adobe brings new Creative Cloud apps to M1 Macs and the web (Ars Technica) Facebook just revealed its new name: Meta (The Verge) 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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0:31.3	Welcome to the Kotky Ride Home for Thursday, October 28th, 2021.
0:40.7	I'm Jackson Bird.
0:41.8	Today, could we one day create sperm and egg cells from any human cell, even across the sexes?
0:51.0	Plus, how BJ Novak from the office's face ended up on products all around the world
0:57.3	without him knowing. And the latest drops from two of the internet's leading mischief-making
1:03.8	companies, including Andy Warhol forgeries and a vegan cannibal steakhouse. Here are some of the cool things from the news today.
1:16.1	What if we could turn blood cells into eggs? Blood cells from someone of any sex into eggs,
1:24.1	like human eggs that could be fertilized and eventually maybe one day become a baby,
1:29.4	enabling all sorts of parents to conceive of biological children when they otherwise couldn't
1:34.9	have. Research has been done in this field for years, but a startup from a spunky young guy with
1:40.6	former ties to the Y Combinator incubator might be the one to really get it off the ground.
1:46.8	Now, why would anyone want to do this?
1:49.2	Well, there are a growing number of people it applies to.
1:52.6	People are continuing to have children later in life, and for those looking to conceive on their own,
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