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Category: environment
Changing our energy infrastructure from one that contributes to climate change to one that is renewable and sustainable poses enormous challenges technically, politically, socially, and economically. There isn't going to be a single solution, but a combination of technological changes,...
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Category: bacteria
cooperation + metabolism + hydrogen + electricity + evolution = AWESOME
Posted by Christina Agapakis at 10:22 AM • 5 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: bioenergy
I had a great conversation with Maggie Koerth-Baker from BoingBoing for bloggingheads.tv Science Saturday. We talked about all sorts of sciency stuff, including her upcoming book on the challenges of renewable energy, synthetic biology, the similarities between cheese and the...
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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
Category: astrobiology
Life transforms environments, creating ecosystems where there was once only rocks. The evolution of photosynthetic bacteria billions of years ago created the atmosphere we have today, paving the way for the evolution of larger, oxygen-breathing organisms. We humans obviously...
Posted by Christina Agapakis at 11:49 AM • 13 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: bioenergy
There's a terrific new article in New Scientist about some of the ways scientists are working on turning pee into energy. There's a lot of pee in the world all going to waste, often at huge cost to the environment...
Posted by Christina Agapakis at 10:42 AM • 7 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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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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!)...
Posted by Christina Agapakis at 4:38 PM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: bacteria
In a recent conversation about the safety and ethics of synthetic biology in the wake of the announcement of the synthetic genome, many of the professors I was chatting with commented on how they hoped new synthetic biology technology...
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