William Stobb

http://www.conduit.org Proud of the new baby! Conduit 27: Digging Lazarus--Reboot, Resurrect, Reimagine . As always, a ton of great work. I love the interview, though, with environmental journalist, M. R. O'Connor, author of Resurrection Science: "While I was writing the book I found it hard to delineate excitement over de-extinction from excitement over life extension technologies. We have a tendency to see ourselves as outside of nature and not subject to its laws. As I mention in the book, Google started this company called Calico (California Life company), and while no one really knows what they're up to, it seems one of their goals is to 'solve' death."

http://eng.longquanzs.org/Annimation.htm A few years back, one of my colleagues hosted a group of monks from the Beijing Longquan Temple . They were traveling and speaking to try to build awareness of their principles, and they had been working on a documentary film that illustrated their alignment with the natural world. I loved the film, with its stop-action animated illustrations of environmental disorders and sometimes incorrect English-over-English subtitles. It felt very earnest and innocent, and it reached me at a time when I was feeling more or less disordered as a creature, as I often do--life often feels baffling to me, not in an inaccurate way--I mean, a quote-unquote accurate perception of life often feels like a perception of confusion, to me. Anyway, I'd had a moderate episode of freaking out that very afternoon about something I don't remember now, and I was very happy to attend the presentation and kind of  sink into  a message that was  calmly mystified a