New career path
I can’t believe I didn’t write here for so long. Welp, can’t help what’s done already, I’ll try to document all the cool stuff that’s happening right now at&around myself, iGEM and Genspace a bit more. I’m officially a team member of the NYC-iGEM team and there are plenty of real biology being done at … 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
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
How to change the world.
This is a bit of rant post on something I thought of after watching bunch of old hacker-themed movies from the Hollywood. It continues to amaze me how I can participate in all sorts of crazy things even with the summer studies and jobs I need to keep up with. I guess that’s the benefit … Read more
Ebook future
I just came across an article in the Wired(link) stating that Amazon will almost certainly unveil a new ebook reader with larger screen size. While the article goes on to talk about possible tablet device from Apple as being a heavy competiton on the ebook market compared to the text-centric ebook devices, my attention span … Read more
Internet intelligence
So here’s an interesting short article on the possibility of internet gaining some type of consciousness due to its network based emergence-friendly structure. The author is the famous Ben Goertzel, one of the foremost minds of the futurist/AI school. If you’ve got time you should check out his blog for other articles as well. I’ve … Read more
Tweeting the future
A quick post in the morning before going off to school/work. There’s nothing like a little freewrite-ish post in the morning to prepare the morning for a day of hard work ahead. I keep on meaning to do one of the more ‘serious’ posts on this blog but for some reason my fingers stop typing … Read more
Japan: Robot Nation
Here’s the link to the documentary in full at current.com. It’s about twenty or so minutes long (why is it so hard to embed video on wordpress?). Unlike some other (let’s be honest. Most other) Japan/robot documentaries, this one focuses on the social conditions leading to the Japan’s apparent love of robotics. It sheds something … Read more
Plenty of room
Just a quick note before I drift off to study for my exams. I re-read the famous ‘there’s plenty of room at the bottom‘ speech made by Richard Feynman recently. Aside from being inspired by his genius and foresight (as usual) I think I hit on an interesting idea. At the end of the speech … Read more
Cory Doctorow excerpt and musings
In answer to a question posed by an interviewer at the end of a comic “Futuristic Tales of The Here and Now” TW: Many people in your story suffer from a disease you term as “Zombiism.” Is this comparable to, say, the horrendously extreme amount of AIDS cases in Africa, a continent also rife with … Read more
