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"html": "The Atlantic: Welcome to Pleistocene Park\n\nRoss Andersen on a fascinating project in Siberia, already decades old, that\u2019s attempting to resurrect the Mammoth Steppe ecosystem. It\u2019s not just the scale of the biome itself in terms of both the space and time required (it\u2019s a \u2018Long Now\u2019 kind of deal, for sure, when we\u2019re talking about \u201ca global land war\u201d between grasses and forests over tens of millions of years) but the mind-boggling accelerated futurism involved in creating the approximation of an extinct species that might be the key to such a biome thriving beyond human hands. That\u2019s not to mention the intersections of and implications for climate science and geopolitics and biotechnology and ethical philosophy. Wow, just wow.",
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