Increasing tinkerability – explaining DIYbio
I was with my father this Thanksgiving and he asked me about "that Biology thing" I've been getting involved in. He's known for some time th...
Category: The Narrative
Mac, Sophia, and the philosophy of 21st-century Biology
Mac has written two short but deep posts, inspired by a talk by Sophia Roosth. What inspired Mac was Sophia's "anthropological insight" that DIYb...
“The Machinery of Life” – a great book for molecularly-minded folks
I've been meaning to share this for the longest time. I've had this book for ages and never tire of it. "The Machinery of Life," by David Go...
Is the interent killing storytelling?
I'm always interested in storytelling in its many guises, so the recent article titled "The internet is killing storytelling" was sure to catch m...
DIYbio and Main Stream Scientists – 2004 all over again?
Back in 2004 I was flying all over the place, promoting blogging. It was the year The Blogger entered the public eye, came out in magazines, built empires. One ...
DIYbio at iGEM 2009
iGEM for me was the first time I got to meet folks in the DIYbio "movement." The DIYbio folks from NYC and Boston had a meeting the first night to dis...
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...
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...
Who are the teachers you remember and contributed the most to who you are today?
I listen to NOVA's Science NOW podcasts. These are nice snippets of info, taken from NOVA's shows. Many of these snippets are also from Neil deGrasse ...
Great overview of synthbio and diybio in WIRED UK
Ben Hammersley, from Wired UK, wrote up an excellent article on synthetic biology with a bit of diybio mixed in (link below). Of course, the Knight and Shetty B...