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Myconnect: interspecies connector

(en) https://projectmyconnect.wordpress.com Myconnect: interface humain-champignon (fr) http://rue89.nouvelobs.com/rue89-culture/2016/04/15/bio-art-connectee-a-interface-humain-champignon-263763  

The reinvention of normal

Dominic Wilcox’s blog http://variationsonnormal.com/ and website http://dominicwilcox.com

Brainbow

http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v450/n7166/full/nature06293.html

WHAT DOES SCIENCE MEAN FROM AFRICA? A VIEW FROM DZIMBAHWE

  A talk by CLAPPERTON CHAKANETSA MAVHUNGA Clapperton Chakanetsa Mavhunga is associate professor of science, technology, and society at MIT and visiting associate professor at the University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa. Professor Mavhunga’s work engages the meanings of science, technology, innovation, and entrepreneurship from Africa in the long historical context, and their implications on how …

L’embryon façonné par la mécanique des fluides

[google-translator] Source:  Le Monde, 23.02.2015, David Larousserie Au commencement, l’être humain, comme la plupart des vertébrés, est bien peu de chose. Une fine crêpe molle de quelques millimètres de diamètre constituée de milliers de cellules. Cet objet informe deviendra pourtant en quelques heures un objet tridimensionnel qui préfigure sa forme et sa segmentation finales – une tête, un …

Ecological firewalls: Engineered mutualism | Indirect cooperation

and How Synthetic Organisms Could Terraform the Earth One way to combat climate change could be to release synthetic organisms that sequester carbon. http://www.technologyreview.com/view/536211/how-synthetic-organisms-could-terraform-the-earth/ from: Synthetic circuit designs for Earth terraformation Ricard V. Solé ∗,1, 2, 3 Rau ́l Montan ̃ez,1, 2 and Salvador Duran-Nebreda1, 2 1ICREA-Complex Systems Lab, Universitat Pompeu Fabra (GRIB), Dr Aiguader …

"croire que la richesse que je possède, je l'ai mérité, est toujours une saloperie"

https://youtu.be/IsThU-JWuJ8?t=1h1m43s Court passage avec Miguel Benasayag. [google-translator] Nouvel apartheid, nouvelle “race”: les losers, les winners. et penser qu’on le mérite/responsable est une horreur… “croire que la richesse que je possède, je l’ai mérité, est toujours une saloperie, mais une vraie saloperie! Parce que même la force physique ou mentale qui me permet de travailler, ce n’est pas mon mérite, c’est le pur …

NSF unveils plan to make scientific papers free

The National Science Foundation (NSF) today released a long-anticipated policy that will require its grantees to make their peer-reviewed research papers freely available within 12 months of publication in a journal. http://news.sciencemag.org/policy/2015/03/nsf-unveils-plan-make-scientific-papers-free   because you know what…Steal This Research Paper! (You Already Paid for It.)

Evolution Is Deterministic (?)

Biologists have concluded that developmental evolution is deterministic and orderly, rather than random, based on a study of different species of roundworms. The researchers note that even where we might expect evolution to be random, it is not. http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/11/071119123929.htm Original study: Kiontke, K., Barrière, A., Kolotuev, I., Podbilewicz, B., Sommer, R., Fitch, D. H. A., …