Does paying off the creditors undermine social trust?
Via a few people I went and read Margaret Atwood’s Op-Ed in the NYT (link below) about debt and its role in society. Nice read. For me the most interestin...
Category: Science
Gah. Why are folks trying to be digital in an analog world?
Call me old-fashioned, but I want some analog-computing being done with biological systems. I’m never comfortable with digital thinking with biological ma...
Tracing paths in woods nearby
I’ve moved to a new neighborhood and there’s a forest nearby. Today, to get a better idea of all the trails, the dog and I wandered every trail we c...
Swimming the sea of knowledge (the Concept Web?)
I’ve been spending a lot of time thinking about how to find, navigate, recombine, and contribute to … what’s out there, though mostly focused ...
Not only are they doing a good job, but it’s scaringly real
A while back I found out via the Twitter site that the Mars Phoenix Lander had a Twitter channel. I don’t know, but maybe at the time it didn’t seem...
Billion-dollar life sciences bill passes Massachusetts Senate
Does Massachusetts need a stimulus in biotech? I don’t think so. It’s doing pretty well. This bill sounds like a bone thrown to biotech biz leaders ...
Kevin Kelly and the New Rules of the New Biology
Kevin Kelly whipped up 9 rules for the Century of Neo-Biology (that label thrills me). I reproduce them here, but you might want to head over to his post (link ...
More Earth presence on Mars
Call me an optimist, but I think it’s inevitable that Earth-folk will eventually be wandering over Mars. Eh, not sure if it will happen in my lifetime or ...
From my sideline seat, Thompson Reuters seems awfully archaic
Can someone please explain to me how and why Thompson Reuters Scientific has such a grip on scientific journal Impact Factors? If you look at the list of variou...
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...