REVIVAL? Bringing back extinct species such as the passenger pigeon may be within science’s grasp. But would the public value such a move?TORONTO PUBLIC LIBRARY/WIKIMEDIA COMMONS
—University of California, Santa Cruz, molecular ecologist Beth Shapiro, on the practicality of bringing extinct species back to life using modern DNA sequencing technology (New York Times Magazine, February 27)
—Nobel Laureate Sydney Brenner, speaking to blogger Elizabeth Dzeng about the drawbacks of the modern academic and publishing systems (February 24)
—Paul Bloom, Yale University psychologist and cognitive scientist, in an article arguing that humans are more than the sums of their biochemical parts (The Atlantic, February 19)
—Actor and writer Seth Rogen, testifying before Congress on the need to devote funds to the study of Alzheimer’s disease (February 26)
—The Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology, in a statement on the 2015 US federal budget (February 27)
—Howard Doughty, in a comment posted ...
