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Synthetic Biology Slam
Category: announcement
Before you get your tickets for SB 5.0 make sure that you'll be in town for the world's first Synthetic Biology Slam!...
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Losing Control
Category: fun
Valerie Weiss is not just a film director with a fun new movie coming out, she's also a scientist. After getting her PhD from Harvard (from the same lab as me!) she created PhD Productions, and her newest film is...
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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
Lab Fashion
Category: culture
Scientists aren't known for their fashion sense, but they do have their own unique charm, as you can see in this episode of In The Lab, with Bill Cunningham....
Posted by Christina Agapakis at 5:09 PM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Qwiki Science
Category: fun
I've been playing a bit with the alpha of Qwiki, a new website that offers users an innovative "information experience." The site collects images, videos, and text about topics from the internet and then displays the images future-aesthetically while reading...
Posted by Christina Agapakis at 5:06 PM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Experimental Livestream
Category: bacteria
My friend Patrick is embarking on a 48 experiment, studying circadian rhythm and destroying his own in the process. He's also embarking on a social media experiment, live-streaming the whole thing on ustream. Tune in to watch real science in...
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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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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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Scientists are people too--silly youtube video edition
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It's not just Scott Kern who thinks that science is only about tedious benchwork and that grad students should be boring robots moving small volumes of liquid around 20 hours a day for the greater good. An unscientific analysis of...
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