Recombination Nation

Roger's Bacon is an evolutionary biologist who turned his tool set on the related problem of how cultures mutate, compete, hybridise and evolve.
He writes fascinating deep dive articles at Secretorum on substack: https://www.secretorum.life
And runs the Seeds of Science blog to give a wider audience to pioneering thinkers: https://www.theseedsofscience.pub

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Steve is an independent crop breeder in southern Australia breeding a host of uncommon crops from similar climates in the Andes. We dive into his work back crossing maize to its ancestor (teosinte), plus his early work preparing to wide cross mauka and arracacha. Steve is pursuing the true zero input approach to breeding staple crops which can produce on unirrigated soil with minimal nutrient inputs and fertility added.
If you want to reach out to Steve get in touch via my substack.
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Glenn Roberts is the founder of Anson Mills, an extraordinary project to bring traditional landrace staple crops back from the brink of extinction in his part of the humid south eastern USA. This interview digs into how he achieved such an extraordinary feat, looking for clues to how others could follow his example in their own bioregions.
Read much more about Anson Mills here: https://ansonmills.com/

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Andiru is a conlang enthusiast who took things the next step and created the auxiliary language Baseyu along with a dedicated community of enthusiasts. Auxiliary languages are designed to be small, simple and accessible enough for anybody to learn them as a new global common tongue- kind of like the Tower of Babel in reverse.
You can check out the project here: https://baseyu.com
Browse the dictionary: https://dictionary.baseyu.com/en
Join the community on reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/Baseyu/
And request a discord invite there.

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Okan learnt two of the most successful constructed languages- the sprawling, romantic Esperanto and cute minimalist Toki Pona.
After covering the history of these languages we delve deeper into the dynamics of experimental language communities, the psychology of conlangers, and the potential interplay of culture, technology and experimental languages in the near future.
Drop me a message on substack if you would like to reach out to Jan.
Try learning Toki Pona yourself here: https://wasona.com
Learn more about Esperanto here: https://lernu.net

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