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Zee-town

http://blogs.rue89.nouvelobs.com/deja-vu/2015/02/26/avec-la-zee-ville-de-facebook-zuckerberg-reinvente-les-corons-234289 http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2963782/Welcome-Facebook-City-Mark-Zuckerberg-plans-waterside-development-10-000-staff-near-firm-s-San-Francisco-HQ.html Check out this previous post: http://ladam.info/2013/09/12/godin-utopie-familistere-and-architecture/#respond

Ricardo Semler on his radical form of corporate democracy

http://www.ted.com/talks/ricardo_semler_radical_wisdom_for_a_company_a_school_a_life?language=en On accumulating money: […] if you’re giving back, you took too much. And some of the other very interesting things: And so we said, look, the retirement, the whole issue of how we distribute our graph of life. Instead of going mountain climbing when you’re 82, why don’t you do it next week? And we’ll do it like …

Generative Art, a 5 min PBS video

Off Book: Generative Art – Computers, Data and Humanity from PBS Digital Studios on Vimeo.

Hiding a Morse Code Message in a Pop Song

The team began experimenting with Morse code using various percussion instruments and a keyboard. They learned that operators skilled in Morse code can often read the signals at a rate of 40 words per minute ­ but played that fast, the beat would sound like a European Dance track. from https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2015/02/hiding_a_morse_.html   Put that way, kinda …

Your genes are for sale

ADN, pochoir de Goin (Thierry Ehrmann/Flickr/CC) Vos gènes sont à vendre et ils peuvent rapporter gros (mais pas à vous) http://blogs.rue89.nouvelobs.com/la-sante-na-pas-de-prix/2015/01/24/vos-genes-sont-vendre-et-ils-peuvent-rapporter-gros-mais-pas-vous-234118 (EN) https://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=auto&tl=en&u=http%3A%2F%2Fblogs.rue89.nouvelobs.com%2Fla-sante-na-pas-de-prix%2F2015%2F01%2F24%2Fvos-genes-sont-vendre-et-ils-peuvent-rapporter-gros-mais-pas-vous-234118 http://mediacenter.23andme.com/blog/2015/01/06/23andme-genentech-pd/

Je suis un OGM: Quoi de plus naturel pour un couple que de choisir son enfant ?

A voir sur http://www.festivalnikon.fr/video/2014/911

My first GFP

Using Aquarium, I transformed e. coli with a plasmid that expresses GFP. hourrah!  

2015, freedom of the press…

The United Nations’ 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights states: “Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression; this right includes freedom to hold opinions without interference, and impart information and ideas through any media regardless of frontiers” In 2015, in France, people die for drawing cartoons… Devotion and Courage. Terrorist Attack against Charlie Hebdo My most humble and …

Cardinal bilateral gynandromorphism

Split-colour bird is half male, half female http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/12/30/half-male-half-female-bird-cardinal-plumage_n_6392336.html (FR) http://www.huffingtonpost.fr/2015/01/01/photo-oiseau-double-plumage-male-femelle-gynandromorphisme-bilateral_n_6403366.html?utm_hp_ref=france

MOMA and Synthetic Biology. Disruptive science?

http://www.moma.org/explore/inside_out/2014/12/17/designing-life-synthetic-biology-and-design Watch the videos, in particular:   … which really let me thinking about ‘disruptive’. FYI, according to Wikipedia: Types of Innovation Sustaining An innovation that does not affect existing markets. Evolutionary An innovation that improves a product in an existing market in ways that customers are expecting. (e.g., fuel injection) Revolutionary (discontinuous, radical) An innovation …