Biology is messy! Synthetic biology will be synthetically messy, too! (plus BONUS)
I’ve been reading about iGEM and the Registry of Standard Biological Parts. It’s a component view of biology – that there are parts in biology...
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The different angles of lifestreams – what’s yours?
I was playing with Six Apart’s Action Streams. It allows me to put a lifestream of all _my_ activities across all _my_ social networks into a single strea...
Bacteria still rule: Great Long Now seminar by Craig Venter (and Bonus!)
I finally got to listen to the Long Now seminar by Craig Venter. And, wow, was it great. If you’ve been a regular reader of mine, you know that I think Ve...
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Right Whale Detection Map Massacusetts Bay (tags: whales biology ocean environment future maps) Introducing the Movable Type Design Assistant – MovableTyp...
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Boston Red Sox – Red Sox – Boston.com “The 2007 championship banner was unfurled, the Red Sox got their rings, and an emotional Bill Buckner t...
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del.icio.us direc.tor: Delivering A High-Performance AJAX Web Service Broker :: Johnvey (tags: ajax api apps bookmarks browser cool del.icio.us Hacking online w...
Old calculators and future steampunk
Whipple Museum of the History of Science, Cambridge Originally uploaded by blackbeltjones Heh. My Dad also had some of these types of clunker calculators. Uh, I...
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Edge: ELIZA’S WORLD by Nicholas Carr “Somehow I managed to miss, until just a few days ago, the news that Joseph Weizenbaum had died. He became — to...
Someone has noticed what we’re doing
If we can toot our own horn, Ewan at SMS Text News gave Nokia kudos for our blogger outreach work. He’s written an article about how different device manu...
Michael Arrington gets sequenced: His 23andMe DNA Results
I haven’t been paying much attention to 23andMe. I heard about them, but have yet to dig deep into what they are up to. To me, it’s bringing genetic...