Imagine science film festival
Just a quick note before I doze off for tomorrow’s work. NYC, befitting its status as one of the more interesting places to live in around the world, is the host to this amazing event called the Imagine Science Film Festival. Now I’m nuts for all things science, but I especially love this festival in … Read more
Synthetic Biology on KQED QUEST- and some comments on the diybio aspect
(((I was trying to embed the videos from the KQED site directly in the post, but apparently copy pasting embed code in HTML panel isn’t good enough for wordpress. I’ve linked to them instead. They are quite good. You should really check them out.))) Here are two videos on synthetic biology. The first one is … Read more
Science commons
Just a quick post before going to sleep (it’s 2:45 in the morning and I have class at 10:00 ugh). This is one of the coolest things I’ve seen on the net today. 120 second introduction to what science commons is. I can think of lot of things that can explain why the idea of … Read more
Neal Stephenson notes
I’ve been googling some Neal Stephenson articles on the net in preparation for his new upcoming book, Anathem. Here is an interesting excerpt from a Wired article I encountered from a blog about Neal Stephenson and his upcoming work (I recommend you read the full article as well if you are interested in current status … Read more
DIY synthetic biology
Just a short note about a cloning kit developed by Qiagen and Invitrogen. Will this be a first step in signalling the trend of the industry toward relatively freely available bio kits for DIY synthetic biology? I certainly hope so. Disposable lab kits packaged for small-scale labs and private hobbyists might prove to be a … Read more
More books are never enough.
I just wanted to urge everyone to visit wowio books. It’s a webpage with full and legal copies of books, categorized and formatted meticulously. Unlike some of the more popular free book service like the Project Gutenberg, many of the books provided wowio aren’t copyright expired classics. There are some gems in there, so anyone … Read more
Chemical augmentation
Americans (and the modern civilization in general) had been dependent on medications since the discovery of penicillin, but recently the level of chemical commitment began to take a whole new perspective. Modification of the baseline intellectual ability through chemical agents that goes beyond simple nutrient control is something I suspect to be relatively widespread and … Read more
Synthetic biology
I’ve been looking around the synthetic biology scene for a while now. Although my academic specialty doesn’t revolve around the field of biology, I try to keep at least an amateur’s perspective upon the advances and techniques of the field. Considering that my passion lies in the study and realization of artificial life I find … Read more
Hackability of the world
I’ve been thinking and writing about the whole steampunk and tranhumanism ‘movement’ (if it can be called as such) all over the net. Though they were nothing more than novelty writings, jumbled things that came straight out of my mind without much introspection, I think I’m beginning to see some underlying pattern here. I do … Read more
Transhumanism, and the human network.
A little something I scribbled down a moment ago. Maybe it would be an interesting read for some of you, especially when viewed in light of the digital art -social networking age we live in right now. The term transhumanism is thrown around a lot these days. It’s almost as if it is fast becoming … Read more
