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Biologically Inspired Jewelry
Category: art
Perhaps you have noticed that I haven't been blogging very much lately. Probably not, which is why I don't ever do these "sorry for not posting" posts, but I'm making an exception this time because it is a very special...
Posted by Christina Agapakis at 7:48 PM • 5 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Lab Poetry
Category: art
This poem was written a few years ago for his biotech company's clean-up day poetry contest and won him a $5 gift certificate to Dunkin Donuts.
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Designer Bacteria
Category: design
Synthetic biologists work on designing living cells, but engineered bacteria don't usually come up when you think of "designer" things. This year however, a synthetic biology design is up for a Brit Insurance Design of the Year award, up against...
Posted by Christina Agapakis at 8:42 AM • 7 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Microbial Landscapes
Category: art
The Harvard Microbial Sciences Initiative Graduate Consortium hosted a fun workshop during the January term where students learned about microscopy by taking some amazing pictures of food microbes. The images taken with the scanning electron microscope of sauerkraut, kombucha, and...
Posted by Christina Agapakis at 4:16 PM • 7 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Food for Thought
Category: art
A growing number of young contemporary artists also explore the distance between us and what we eat by bringing secretions of the human body into food production.
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The Symbiotic Household
Category: art
With The Symbiotic Household, Elliott P. Montgomery seeks to find answers to problems caused by climate change. Low-cost, low energy solutions are proposed through complex genetic engineering of domesticated insects--"What better way to deal with a future need than...
Posted by Christina Agapakis at 6:27 PM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Stop Motion History of Life
Category: art
An incredible (if unscientific) look at the history of life: The video has been around for a few months and has a gajillion hits so sorry if I'm late to the party, I just had to share! By Blu, via...
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Chemical Cartography
Category: art
Everything has a unique chemical signature. Every body, every place. When you smell home you're sensing all the chemical traces that make up the place you grew up. When you smell your mate, you're smelling the unique combination of their...
Posted by Christina Agapakis at 3:01 PM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Scientific Color
Category: standards
We can babble philosophically about whether or not what we call "red" looks the same from another person's eyes, we can compare the adjectives we use to specify colors--is it maraschino red or cayenne?--but when we're talking to our computers,...
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