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De-Extinction: Are We About To Make a Jurassic Mistake?

MOD.’s recent Ethos Event begs the million-dollar question – does history belong in museums, or in our backyards?

The year is 2027. You are on a mission to the original Jurassic Park research facility to retrieve dinosaur DNA for a life-saving drug. Amidst this operation, a failed dinosaur mutant escapes, killing innocent civilians and changing life as we know it today. This is the rough plot line of Jurassic World: Rebirth (2025). The […]

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Indigenous IP: Ripe for the Picking?

The unbe-leaf-able reality of Indigenous native foods and how this affects past, present, and emerging Indigenous intellectual property rights.

It is the 1960’s. A Kangaroo Apple is seen growing on a shrub. Before reaching full ripeness, an Indigenous Woman is seen picking said Kangaroo Apple, and consumes it. A non-Indigenous man watches on, intrigued. This fruit stops pregnancy. Extracts from Kangaroo Apple are one of the ingredients of the contraceptive pill. This Indigenous Cultural […]

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