The subtlety of life – clever codon usage
Here’s a paper from September I haven’t had a chance to comment on. Zhang et al reported in Science (review, paper – subscription required) how two almost...
Category: The Narrative
The new germ theory
Lizzie Buchen from Nature (link below) wrote a great article on some cool work folks are doing to change the way we view bacteria. For example, one group (like ...
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...
DIYBio meet-up – Folk Microbiology
It was a night of culture – yoghurt cultures. Vaughn Tan shared his passion for yoghurt with about two dozen captivated future yoghurt makers. He spoke ab...
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...
Fed up with platic bags
One thing I've noticed here in the US is that there is trash everywhere, collecting in the "unspace", places where there is no movement or wind o...
I’m giving a brown-bag at UMass Amherst on DIYbio and Synthetic Biology on 07apr10
I'm going to be out at UMass Amherst visiting my PhD advisor, Craig Martin. He's been so kind to let me do a brown-bag discussion around DIYBio and Sy...
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...
Hacking microscopes – DIYBio meetup 13dec09
We had another gathering at The Sprouts. Mac, Jason, Jason, Dave, Kay, and I (with my son) gathered and talked about moving forward with safety stuff (pages, FA...