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Are We Ready To Hack The Animal Kingdom?

by NPR/TED Staff   August 09, 201310:01 AM ET   13 min 50 sec

“ Humans have made a huge hole in nature in the last 10,000 years. We have the ability now, and maybe the moral obligation, to repair some of the damage.

– Stewart Brand

Part 2 of the TED Radio Hour episode .

About Stewart Brand’s TEDTalk

Mankind has driven species after species extinct. Now says, we have the technology to bring back the species that we wiped out. So should we? Which ones? He asks a big question whose answer is closer than you may think.

About Stewart Brand

The revival of extinct species is becoming a possibility and plans to not only bring species back but restore them to the wild. Brand is already a legend in the tech industry for things he’s created: the , The , the , and the notion that “information wants to be free.”

Now Brand, a lifelong environmentalist, wants to re-create — or “de-extinct” — a few animals that have disappeared from the planet. Resurrecting the woolly mammoth using ancient DNA may sound like mad science.

But Brand’s Revive and Restore project has an entirely rational goal: to learn what causes extinctions so we can protect currently endangered species, preserve genetic and biological diversity, repair depleted ecosystems, and essentially “undo harm that humans have caused in the past.”

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Can Hacking The Stratosphere Solve Climate Change?

by NPR/TED Staff   August 09, 201310:01 AM ET   9 min 29 sec

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“ We’re hiding a genuine, and I think not-wrong joy in the fact that we understand something about the world that potentially gives us the ability to do these things.

– David Keith

Part 3 of the TED Radio Hour episode .

About David Keith’s TEDTalk

Environmental scientist proposes a cheap and shocking way to address climate change: What if we inject a huge cloud of sulfur into the atmosphere to deflect sunlight and heat?

About David Keith

Environmental scientist David Keith works at the intersection of climate science, energy, and public policy. His research has taken him into some the realms of geo-engineering — including a dramatic potential solution to climate change, such as blowing a cloud of sulfur into the sky to bring the average global temperature down.

His other areas of study include the , the economics and climatic impacts of large-scale wind power, and the use of hydrogen as a transportation fuel.

His forthcoming book is called A Case For Climate Engineering. He teaches policy and engineering at Harvard University, and was named by Canadian Geographic in 2006.

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Getting Back to Abnormal |108 Essential Documentaries About New Orleans

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Premiere Date: July 14, 2014   Check the broadcast schedule »
Explore Getting Back to Abnormal filmmaker Paul Stekler’s list of essential documentaries about New Orleans below, or read more in his history of documentary film in New Orleans. 

Title	Year	Filmmaker(s) / Producer(s)	More Info / Watch
New Orleans Travelogue	1940	James A. Fitzpatrick	YouTube
The Children Were Watching	1961	Robert Drew	The New Yorker
Stranded in Canton	1973	William Eggleston	YouTube
Black Indians of New Orleans	1976	Maurice Martinez	YouTube
Cheap And Greasy	1977	Burwell Ware/NOVAC	Vimeo
Changing The Channel: The Renovation Question	1977	Louis Alvarez & Andrew Kolker	Vimeo
Degas in New Orleans	1977	Gary Goldman	YouTube
Ain’t Nobody’s Business	1978	NOVAC	Vimeo
Talking Crime	1978	Louis Alvarez & Andrew Kolker	Vimeo
Always for Pleasure	1978	Les Blank	YouTube
This Cat Can Play Anything	1978	Stevenson Palfi, Eddie Kurtz and Andrew Kolker	YouTube
The Clarks	1979	Louis Alvarez & Andrew Kolker	Vimeo
Up from the Cradle of Jazz	1980	Jason Berry/NOVAC	Jason Berry Author
Hot Stuff: The Restaurants of New Orleans	1980	John Beyer	POV
Pete!	1980	John Beyer	POV
Yes Ma’am	1982	Gary Goldman	Filmakers
View from the Stoop	1982	Karen Snyder/NOVAC	New Orleans Historical
The Ends of the Earth	1982	Louis Alvarez & Andrew Kolker	YouTube
Piano Players Rarely Ever Play Together	1982	Stevenson Palfi	YouTube
The Men of LSU	1982	John Beyer	YouTube
To the Best of Our Abilities	1984	Fred Schultz	Louisiana Endowment For The Humanities
Yeah, You Rite!	1984	Louis Alvarez & Andrew Kolker	YouTube
A House Divided	1984	Burrell Ware	POV
Get Down Street Sound	1984	Neil Alexander	POV
In that Number	1985	Jerry Brock	Louisiana Endowment For The Humanities
Huey Long	1985	Ken Burns	PBS
Real New Orleans series	1986	Eddie Kurtz	Vimeo
Which Governs Best	1986	Eddie Kurtz	Vimeo
La Pharmacie Francais	1986	Robin Katchan	POV
The Chief: Louis Prima	1986	John Beyer	POV
Uncle Earl	1986	Rick Smith/LPB	POV
Among Brothers: Black Politics in New Orleans	1987	Paul Stekler	Vimeo
Gottschalk Festival: The Life and Music of Louis M. Gottschalk	1987	John Huszar	Louisiana Endowment For The Humanities
The Creole Controversy	1987	Karen Synder/WYES	Louisiana Endowment For The Humanities
Mystery of the Purple Rose	1989	Peggy Scott Laborde	Louisiana Endowment For The Humanities
Men of the Ring: Boxing Legends of New Orleans	1989	Kathleen Mulvihill/WLAE	Louisiana Endowment For The Humanities
Red Beans and Ricely Yours: Satchmo in New Orleans	1990	Peggy Scott Laborde/WYES	Louisiana Endowment For The Humanities
Backlash: Race and the American Dream	1991	Bess Carrick	Vimeo
Island of Saints and Souls	1991	Neil Alexander	Folklife in Louisiana
Louisiana Boys: Raised on Politics	1991	Louis Alvarez, Andrew Kolker & Paul Stekler	POV
John McCrady’s Southern Scene	1992	Matthew Martinez	Louisiana Endowment For The Humanities
Greetings from Out There	1993	Ellen Spiro	Spiro Films
He Must Have Something	1994	Steven Tyler	YouTube
New Orleans Jazz Funerals from the Inside	1995	David Jones	Cajun Market
Streetcar Stories	1995	Michael Mizell-Nelson	Po Boy Festival
Journey for Justice: The A.P. Tureaud Story	1996	Rachel Emanuel	LPB
New Orleans Voodoo from the Inside	1996	David Jones	Voodoo Shop
Storyville: The Naked Dance	1997	Anne Craig & Maia Harris	ITVS
Pushcarts and Plantations: Jewish Life in New Orleans	1998	Brian Cohen	Wikipedia
He’s the Prettiest: A Salute to Big Chief Allison “Tootie” Montana’s 50 Years of Mardi Gras Indian Suiting	1998	Will Horton	Folklife in Lousiana
Kate Chopin: A Re-Awakening	1998	Tika Laudun	PBS
Ruthie, The Duck Girl	1999	Rick Delaup	Best of New Orleans
Degas in New Orleans: A Creole Sojourn	1999	David Jones	Degas House
Irish in New Orleans	1999	Terri Landry	Louisiana Endowment For The Humanities
Jazz	2000	Ken Burns	Artist Direct
The Danny Barker Show	2001	Matthew Martinez/WYES	Kurts Communications LLC
Italian New Orleans	2001	Terri Landry	Louisiana Endowment For The Humanities
Fatal Flood	2001	Chana Gazit	PBS
Shalom Y’all	2003	Brian Bain	Brian Bain
Louisiana – A History	2003	Louisiana Public Broadcasting	LPB
All on a Mardi Gras Day	2003	Royce Osborn/WYES	Spyboy Pictures
The Quorum: Blacks, Creoles, and Whites Arrested for Socializing at a Coffee House	2004	Maurice Martinez	Door Knob Films/Youtube
German New Orleans	2004	Terri Landry	Louisiana Endowment For The Humanities
Desire	2005	Julie Gustafson	Vimeo
Hurricane Katrina: The Storm that Drowned a City	2005	Caroline Penry-Davey & Peter Chinn	PBS
The Storm	2005	Martin Smith	PBS
New Orleans is Sinking	2005	60 Minutes, Scott Pelley	YouTube
William Eggleston in the Real World	2005	Michael Almereyda	YouTube
American Creole: New Orleans Reunion	2006	Glen Pitre & Michelle Benoit	Cote Blanche Productions
C’est Levee	2006	Ellen Reynolds	Vimeo
Jewish New Orleans	2006	Terri Landry	Louisiana Endowment For The Humanities
When the Levees Broke	2006	Spike Lee	YouTube
Hurricane on the Bayou	2006	Greg MacGillivray & Glen Pitre	YouTube
Too White to be Black, Too Black to be White: The New Orleans Creole	2007	Maurice Martinez	Door Knob Films
The Axe in the Attic	2007	Ed Pincus & Lucia Small	The Axe in the Attic
New Orleans	2007	Steven Ives	Thirteen
Along Lake Pontchartrain	2007	Peggy Scott Laborde	WYES
Reborn: New Orleans Schools	2007	Drea Cooper	YouTube
Tootie’s Last Suit	2007	Lisa Katzman	YouTube
By Invitation Only	2008	Rebecca Snedeker	By Invitation Only
Faubourg Treme: The Untold Story of Black New Orleans	2008	Dawn Logsdon & Lolis Eric Elie	YouTube
Trouble the Water	2008	Tia Lessin & Carl Deal	YouTube
Member of the Club	2008	Phoebe Ferguson	YouTube
A Village Called Versailles	2009	Leo Chiang	ITVS
The Old Man and the Storm	2009	June Cross	PBS
The Yes Men Fix the World	2009	Andy Bichlbaum, Mike Bonanno & Kurt Engfehr	YouTube
Mine	2009	Geralyn Pezanoski	YouTube
Land of Opportunity	2010	Luisa Dantas	Vimeo
If God is Willing and da Creek Don’t Rise	2010	Spike Lee	HBO
Lost Restaurants of New Orleans	2010	Peggy Scott Laborde	Peggy Scott Laborde
Race	2010	Katherine Cecil	Race The Documentary
The Big Uneasy	2010	Harry Shearer	The Big Uneasy
Walker Percy	2010	Win Riley	Walker Percy
The Sons of Tennessee Williams	2010	Tim Wolff	YouTube
Mr. Cao Goes to Washington	2011	Leo Chiang	Mr. Cao Goes to Washington
New Orleans in the ’50s	2011	Peggy Scott Laborde	WYES
Bury the Hatchet	2011	Aaron Walker	YouTube
I’m Carolyn Parker: The Good, the Mad, and the Beautiful	2011	Jonathan Demme	YouTube
Tchoupitoulas	2013	Bill & Turner Ross	The New York Times
Rebel	2013	Maria Agui Carter	Rebel Documentary
Rebirth: New Orleans	2013	John Merrow	Rebirth: New Orleans
A Warehouse on Tchoupitoulas	2013	Jessy Cale Williamson	Vimeo
Bayou Maharajah	2013	Lily Keber	Vimeo
Tradition is a Temple: The Modern Masters of New Orleans	2013	Darren Hoffman	YouTube
The Whole Gritty City	2013	Richard Barber	YouTube
T-Galop	2013	Connie Castille	YouTube
Shell Shocked	2013	John Richie	YouTube
Getting Back to Abnormal	2014	Louis Alvarez, Andy Kolker, Peter Odabashian & Paul Stekler	YouTube

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