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Notes, thoughts, and news on synthetic biology by Christina Agapakis.
July 30, 2010
Category: history
I have a very weak constitution. It doesn't take much time on a moving vehicle of any type to make be barf, and I've hurled all over gorgeous coastal areas in tourist destinations around the world. There was that...
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July 22, 2010
Category: environment
I'm not all the way to crazy-hippie-living-in-a-cave territory, but I'm pretty close. Here's how you can join me!
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July 20, 2010
Category: bioethics
Everyone's favorite Slovenian philsopher, Slavoj Žižek, discussing his provocative perspective on nature, ecology, biotechnology, and climate change while dumpster diving: via Immanent Discursivity (thanks Nick!)...
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July 19, 2010
Category: education
I recently found this fascinating (relatively) old review article (open access) by awesome MIT professor Natalie Kuldell about teaching synthetic biology. Synthetic biology has integrated teaching and learning with the development of the field since basically the beginning of the...
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July 16, 2010
Category: iGEM
Check out these iGEM twitter pages to follow the antics of iGEM teams around the world this summer (and let me know if I missed any teams)! iGEM headquarters @igem Biotec Dresden @igem_biotec Bielefeld @iGEM_Bielefeld Brazil @igembrasil Calgary @iGEMCalgary Cambridge...
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July 12, 2010
Category: fashion
I don't usually like to post links from BoingBoing because I imagine everyone has already seen this already, but as it is about some of my favorite things (synthetic biology, biomaterials, and fashion) I couldn't resist! Designer Suzanne Lee makes...
Posted by Christina Agapakis at 12:44 PM • 4 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
July 11, 2010
Category: announcement
I am thrilled to announce that I will be one of the Synthetic Aesthetics residents this fall. Synthetic Aesthetics is a new program run through Stanford and the University of Edinburgh and funded by the National Science Foundation and the...
Posted by Christina Agapakis at 8:23 AM • 5 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
July 10, 2010
Category: food
Science is cooking done in a lab. Mixing carefully (or not so carefully) measured components, heating, cooling, observing phase transitions, exploring the behavior of animal and plant proteins, exploring the properties of different chemicals, slowly changing variables to optimizing procedures....
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