DIYbio at iGEM 2009
iGEM for me was the first time I got to meet folks in the DIYbio "movement." The DIYbio folks from NYC and Boston had a meeting the first night to dis...
Category: The Narrative
Report on iGEM 09, from a newbie
This iGEM was my first. I’d read about it, talked about it, but this is the first time I’ve been immersed in it. OK, so I wasn’t part of a tea...
Oh, what we’ve forgotten…
In this new era of natural philosophers (neo-natural philosophers?), where the cost of buying science kits and instruments can be an obstacle to amateur science...
Who are the teachers you remember and contributed the most to who you are today?
I listen to NOVA's Science NOW podcasts. These are nice snippets of info, taken from NOVA's shows. Many of these snippets are also from Neil deGrasse ...
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...
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 ...