Thu. 03/18 - Salmon Chaos & The Paris Commune
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."
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Paris Commune: The revolt dividing France 150 years on (BBC)
Lipstick Traces: A Secret History of the Twentieth Century by…
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