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
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
The Whole Foods CEO on Universal Health Care
Universal health care seem to be the hot topic these days. There are lots of arguments flying around on both sides of the health care reform and universal health care in America, some of them more reasonable than the other. Well, I just though I’d share an interesting article I read on Whole Foods CEO … Read more
From Consilience:the Unity of Knowledge
“The intellectual power, honesty, lucidity, courage, and disinterested love of the truth of the most gifted thinkers of the eighteenth century remain to this day without parallel. Their age is one of the best and most hopeful episodes in the life of mankind.” – Isaiah Berlin There is a book titled ‘Consilience: the unity of … Read more
The antikythera mechanism
An ex-senior curator finally succeeded in replicating all known features of the 2000 years old Antikythera mechanism, the first known mechanical computer in human history. Technically this is in similar spirit as a 19th century clock. There is some strange notion among some people regarding how people got smarter over time. Sometimes I feel … 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
LHC first beam moment!
(Update: The LHC beam came full circle at last!) The LHC first beam came and went. The LHC experiment itself is active right now, with about 3/8th of the ring active and 60,000 particles observed in one shot. Of course, it is set to increase to the full capacity eventually. I am very proud to … Read more
Support LHC, and the Long Now event
There are two big events from today to tomorrow, one of them truly big in the sense of its possible impact on humanity and the sciences, and the other one big in the sense that it is a release celebration of a book by one of my favorite authors hosted by one of the more … Read more
Great things at the Met
I have been crazy busy lately, preparing papers for my discipline of choice (physics), brushing up on my synthetic biology, and catching up on some art related reading materials, centered around Jasper Johns. Will they all condense into some masterful singular post? Maybe… Maybe not. Regardless, I’ve been rather enjoying my new-ish vigorous lifestyle. All … Read more
Solemn dictations
This is a cross post of something I wrote before. I liked this post too much to leave it in middle of nowhere, so I’m moving it here. This is something I ran across in my visit to the Met today. It’s a funeral marker of the ancient Greece, around 500 B.C. or so. According … Read more
