Human microbial ecology – cool study
I mentioned a few weeks back a review in Nature about a trio of scientists studying the contributions of gut microbial ecology in preemies that get necrotizing ...
Category: The Narrative
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...
Functional roles for noise in genetic circuits
I have a thing about noise (see my ramblings here). And as folks try to turn elements of biological circuits into well-behaving engineered parts, I’ve been tryi...
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...
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...