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...
Category: The Narrative
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...
Five things to make media socialize (plus one bonus feature)
A colleague, John Markow, and I were discussing how to explain to people what features a piece of media should have to make it useful socially on the Web. We ca...
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...
What can we learn from Asilomar?
There was a flurry of indignation recently on the DIYbio discussion group over an article in the Wall Street Journal over the safety of bio hackers (with added ...
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 ...
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 ...
Hackspaces on the mind
I don't know why, but ever since returning from SXSW09 I've been wondering about hackspaces. As you might know, hackspaces are like a nerd collective,...
Social networking and health – notes from SXSW
I was at SXSW last week and sat in on some seminars and conversations that I found particularly intersting. One session was a "conversation," held in ...
Funny story about common chord progressions
I read this funny article about how the ‘Sensitive Female Chord Progression’ has infiltrated so many songs. Link: Striking a chord – Boston Gl...