Stream the Darwin Opera
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The music from the Darwin Electro-Opera I mentioned a while back is now available for free, streaming on Pitchfork! (via Nick)...
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January 28, 2010
Open Source Hydrogen Cars
Category: bioenergy
Riversimple, a small UK-based company, has designed a tiny, relatively cheap, and remarkably open-source hydrogen fuel cell car. The car will not be available for sale, but people will be able to lease it, with the lease agreement including maintenance,...
Posted by Christina Agapakis at 10:44 AM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
January 27, 2010
The Evolution of an Internet Meme
Category: fun
I sort of love the "KEEP CALM AND CARRY ON" posters that have become the darling of interior decorating bloggers and graphic design jokesters alike in the past few years. I even have one of the posters hanging in my...
Posted by Christina Agapakis at 10:12 AM • 23 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
January 26, 2010
Synthetic RNA Switches
Category: RNA
Today in my searches for the hot new trends in synthetic biology, I found a news article from Science Daily with an intriguing title: "Scientists Achieve First Rewire of Genetic Switches." Rewiring genetic switches sounds pretty neat, but this headline...
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January 25, 2010
Crafty Oscillations
Category: crafts
Check out these cute hand-embroidered oscilloscope merit badges! Available on Etsy....
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The Science of Nudity
Category: culture
There's a funny article over at H+ magazine called "Get Naked: It's Good for Your Brain," telling us exactly that: Clothing is crushing us! Trapped in tomb-like textiles, we exile our flesh from experiencing the environment. We atrophy the majority...
Posted by Christina Agapakis at 1:13 PM • 11 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
January 24, 2010
iGEM genius
Category: iGEM
Things are gearing up for iGEM 2010, and in looking through some of the incredible work of the 2009 teams, I remembered the University of Washington Software team, who made an awesome lego robot that can move small volumes of...
Posted by Christina Agapakis at 8:54 PM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Cooperation and Experimental Evolution
Category: evolution
Cooperation and altruism are widespread in biology, from molecules and genes working together in a cell, to bacterial communities that require coordinated behavior to survive in a tough environment, to human relationships and societies. Our human cultural perspective (perhaps even...
Posted by Christina Agapakis at 12:41 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
January 21, 2010
Beautiful Bacterial Oscillations
Category: circuits
Oscillators are huge in synthetic biology. They're an exciting challenge, very hard to make in a controlled, robust way, they have the potential to be useful in many applications, like well-timed drug delivery, and they can tell us a lot...
Posted by Christina Agapakis at 10:06 AM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
January 20, 2010
Five hard truths for synthetic biology
Category: news
Nature News has an excellent article about the hype, the challenges, and the potential of synthetic biology. The article quotes Martin Fussenegger, a leader in mammalian cell synthetic biology as saying "The field has had its hype phase, now it...
Posted by Christina Agapakis at 4:38 PM • 6 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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