Barcode the World
I’ve always been curious about DNA barcoding. Interest in wides-scale DNA barcoding exercise had been around for a long time, in part due to potential for amateur scientists to contribute to cause of the sciences using relatively minimal and easily obtained equipments and reagents. There had been some high-profile events and articles involving DNA barcoding techniques … Read more
Is it game night yet?
It’s Thursday night. Just one more day to plow through until you reach Friday night with all its movies and drinks. Well, we can’t tell you how to speed up time but we can tell you how to feel like it’s going faster. Play computer games. Now, we are talking about Genspace, and we do … Read more
8bit tools of science
According to the founder of Playpower.org, more people in India have TVs at home than tap water. And there are $12 computers everywhere that uses the TVs as monitors, like so many of the personal computers of old. Now consider that these hardwares based off older 8bit chip designs and the softwares that run on … Read more
First DIYBio rant of the year
I can’t believe I’m uploading the first post of the year in March. Still, better late than never to show people that I’m still alive and kicking. While I haven’t been able to think about personal writing due to deluge of job and school related stuff I’ll try to keep things more organized in the … Read more
Alan Kay applied to synthetic biology, and other stuff.
This is something I wrote up a few days ago, probably around four or so in the morning. So take whatever it says with caution. I know I should be writing about some other things as well, like how the diybio nyc might be amazingly close to getting a real lab space, or how I’m … Read more
Lecture and presentation
Long time no see on the blogosphere. I’ve been busy during the summer with all the usual stuff, mostly learning and working. I’m glad to say that I’ve almost finished the Exploring Complexity: An Introduction book during the summer, and I was even able to get some of the mathematics out of the way. I … Read more
Bioinformatics Misconceptions
I just read an interesting paper on the three common misconceptions people normally have about the field of bioinformatics. I’ve been eyeing bioinformatics as a possible venue for bringing more people into DIY sciences, so I took some notes for future reference. It turns out that I’ve been suffering from same hype and illusion about … Read more
Bruce Sterling on education
I’m taking a bit of a break today, which leaves me some time to indulge in all sorts of creative yet ultimately possibly meaningless ventures, like mathematica visualization, the processing language study, and scrounging for interesting bits on the net. While on my usual sojourn throughout the infosphere this morning, I found an interesting passage … Read more
Science in Apple?
Like most people, I was tuned into the WWDC keynote address on Monday. Most of the stuff on the keynote were more or less expected, including the iPhone/Dev kit and the OS X 10.6. However, the way they were presented were intriguing to say the least… To this scientist-in-training at least. First the iPhone. Inclusion … Read more
From virtual to real
I must admit, there was a time when I would play computer/video games late into the night. I was a wee-lad back then, so impressionable and curious about the whole plethora of things of this universe. And the allure of the virtual worlds to such mind was just too sweet to resist. I gave a … Read more
