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Historico-Lexical explorations

Gender wise, the data suggests that The Bible is overwhelmingly biased towards males.

Ambivalence: combination of rebellion and profitable entrepreneurship

On the one hand biohackers act as rebels who challenge the status quo by advocating free access and sharing; on the other hand they may also act as profiteers who resist external interference from public regulations, corporate interests, or academic institutions, in order to accumulate economic profit as well as personal prestige (Golinelli and Henry 2014). …

Embroidery: structures found in the natural world

2015 embroidery thread wall installation Wangaratta Art Gallery Permanent Collection http://meredithwoolnough.com.au/#/typologies/

Sisyphus – The Kinetic Art Table

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1199521315/sisyphus-the-kinet More on The art of motion control

Phylogenetic study of stars in the solar neighbourhood

Using 17 chemical elements as a proxy for stellar DNA, we present a full phylogenetic study of stars in the solar neighbourhood. This entails applying a clustering technique that is widely used in molecular biology to construct an evolutionary tree from which three branches emerge. These are interpreted as stellar populations which separate in age …

$30 to Make a DIY EpiPen

https://www.technologyreview.com/s/602422/it-costs-30-to-make-a-diy-epipen-and-heres-the-proof/ The pharmaceutical company Mylan, which is the only manufacturer of the device, was recently shown to have raised the prices of a single device from $57 to $318—that’s a 461 percent increase—since acquiring rights to it in 2007. […] There are several reasons why nobody else has built an alternative to the EpiPen, among them patent protection, fear …

Why women leave academia

https://www.theguardian.com/higher-education-network/blog/2012/may/24/why-women-leave-academia? The participants in the study identify many characteristics of academic careers that they find unappealing: the constant hunt for funding for research projects is a significant impediment for both men and women. But women in greater numbers than men see academic careers as all-consuming, solitary and as unnecessarily competitive. Both men and women PhD …

Changing the Nature of Nature

Explorations with Bryan Johnson | Synthetic Biology