Institutional science needs to change
I was having lunch with some old ex-lab friends. Unlike me, who left the lab at the end of the 90s, all three of them have kept on doing research and medicine a...
Category: Strategy
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...
Report on iGEM 09, from a newbie
This iGEM was my first. I’d read about it, talked about it, but this is the first time I’ve been immersed in it. OK, so I wasn’t part of a tea...
Vestiges of the past in our tools: Fruit fly culture bottles
In a previous post, I discussed how we've forgotten techniques and instruments of the past. These techniques and instruments could come in handy as garage ...
Oh, what we’ve forgotten…
In this new era of natural philosophers (neo-natural philosophers?), where the cost of buying science kits and instruments can be an obstacle to amateur science...
Don’t guess the future of the social Web, read it right here.
Chris Messina and Jyri Engeström wrote a brilliant article on the Arctic Startup site (hey, Ville and Antti, nice catch!). Both of them have been actively pushi...
Molecular Playground: Architectural Scale Interactive Molecules
I just found out that my thesis advisor is working on a cool project. There's a new science building going up at UMass Amherst (where I got my PhD) and Cra...
Video: The Future of Science Publishing
In February, in a Barcelona restaurant, Mark Kramer caught up with me and asked me what I would be speaking about at the 3rd WLE Symposium (notes from the talk ...
Talk: The Future of Science Publishing
I think about the fusion of mobile and Web all the time. And I’ve been talking about and thinking about designing services and software for years. But I also wa...
Changing the journal impact factor through real-time transparent statistics
I've mentioned Mendeley before. They refer to themselves as a Last.fm for science papers, but I think it'll be much more. One thing they realize they ...