Les gènes à repriser: Biologie de la Homebody | H + Magazine. Tyson Anderson The age of the DIYbiologist has begun. With the price of equipment falling and the open source ideology flourishing, it was perhaps inevitable that we would see the rise of this new DIY community. And while it may conjure pictures of citizens with scalpels in one hand and a trowel in the other, DIYbiology is, in fact, an exciting and potentially productive new field. Primarily interested in the currently fashionable trend of synthetic biology — the creation of novel organisms using genetics and other techniques — they meet in groups, in cities, and unite online.
As the diversity of topics suggests, this is a large community. And while one might envision dozens of isolated home biologists homebrewing genes in their basements and garages, there is a social aspect to this movement that goes beyond the online. Why has this field suddenly exploded? Of course, there are bound to be some ethical concerns about, and within, a community tinkering with biology. MP: Yup. - Boing Boing. iPhone killed tinkering, but only if you want to tinker with iPhone Most tech-media takes on the iPhone’s 10th anniversary are bland and self-congratulatory, but I like Tom Warren’s at The Verge. He laments how Apple’s pocket computer killed his inner nerd. As a youngster, he’d be constantly tearing down and building computers, even in the sweltering heat of summer. But now… …All of that tinkering and […] MP3 put out to pasture It’s the end of an era, sort of: Fraunhofer IIS, the developers of the MP3 audio compression format, announced that they are ceasing their licensing program.
The QFX Elite Series is like Sonos without the price tag If there’s such a thing as a household name for networked home audio systems, Sonos is definitely at the top of the list. Charge any device anywhere with this universal solar charger It’s easy to forget about your phone’s dependency on modern infrastructure when you have free public WiFi and consistent access to electrical outlets. Meredith L. Patterson: la smart, poli nerd.
Meredith L. Patterson. Meredith L. Patterson (born April 30, 1977[1]) is an American technologist, science fiction writer, and journalist. She has spoken at numerous industry conferences on a wide range of topics.[2] She is also a blogger and software developer, and a leading figure[3] in the biopunk movement. Early life[edit] Patterson spent her first 24 years living in and around Houston, before moving to Iowa City, Iowa, to pursue her Masters degree in linguistics and PhD in computer science.[4] Patterson attended Kingwood High School from 1990 to 1994.[5] She supported herself doing odd-jobs from website designer, technical writer, math teacher and professional restaurant critic to reporter for the Houston Press,[4][6] She served as the Treasurer of the Mars Society Houston branch[7] in 1999.
That same year, at age 22, she traveled above the Arctic Circle as a NASA correspondent for a Mars simulation mission.[8] Computer science and academic career[edit] Writing career[edit] Blogger[edit] Biohacker[edit] Projets divers.