Presentation: Product Stewardship – Lynne Pledger
In one panel, I got upset that all recycling talk was about the consumer and the waste management companies. I asked what about producer responsibility. To my s...
Category: Innovation
The Great Beyond: Nitrogen fertilizer: too much of a good thing
“Overuse of nitrogen fertilizer costs the European Union €70 billion – €320 billion per year, according to a landmark assessment of nitrogen flows across ...
Less Bad vs. Good : Oscillator
“Should young, bright, and idealistic biotechnology students spend their summer coming up with technologies for oil companies to exploit so that they can ...
Doing stand-up at IgniteAmherst Feb 8th
Just a note that I'll be doing a 5-minute stand-up act at IngiteAmherst at the Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art (125 West Bay Road, Amherst, MA). Link...
Future Media by BERGLONDON – ubicomp.revised
BERG has come out with two more "alternative futures" videos, once again made with Dentsu London and Timo Arnall. I've been struggling to put int...
This is why we need to take back the Cloud
Services like Twitter and Facebook have centralized our communications, such that we depend on their skills to keep their part of the network up (let alone, saf...
Do we need a DIYbio academy?
Among my many ideas I have lying around is some form of institute to support the DIYbio community. This is different from the meet-ups happening in places like ...
Take back the graph! Facebook, The Cloud, and a return to the basics of social networking
“Take back the graph!” was @mattmiz‘s reply to my rant that The Cloud was shite, Facebook was poison, and that the future will be peer-to-peer...
An author ID system is essential to the future of science publishing
Nature recently wrote an article on a proposed Author ID system. I find this momentous. In my vision of the Future of Science Publishing, which is highly based ...
Building a Minimal Airplane?
At the iGEM Jamboree there was a lot of discussion of Minimal Cells, cells that have the fewest number of components to function as a laboratory organism. One o...