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Generative Art and Computational Creativity

So pumped !! https://www.kadenze.com/courses/generative-art-and-computational-creativity-i/info

Practical Predictive Analytics: Models and Methods

from https://www.xkcd.com/882/   Really good course at: https://www.coursera.org/learn/predictive-analytics/home/welcome

Lab folklore and mythology: a look at SSK literature

Beyond lab folklore and mythology: What the future of science will look like if we’re bold enough to look beyond centuries-old models. by  Mike Loukides  | January 16, 2015 http://radar.oreilly.com/2015/01/beyond-lab-folklore-and-mythology.html Labs where there was a shared common knowledge of how to do things, but where that shared culture never made it outside, not even to the lab down …

Quels risques prendriez-vous au nom de la science?

[google-translator] Quels risques prendriez-vous au nom de la science?[…]vous apprendrez les incroyables histoires des scientifiques mangeur de verre, conducteur de luge-fusée, et pendu – ainsi que celles de sept autres chercheurs ayant risqué leur vie dans leurs expérimentations. (fr) http://www.huffingtonpost.fr/2013/12/03/experiences-dangereuses-scientifiques-risquent-vie_n_4381198.html?utm_hp_ref=fr-science

BioArt

Let’s start with the basic review: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BioArt   Browse Eduardo Kac’s thought–provoking projects at http://www.ekac.org/transgenicindex.html With the famous Alba, the fluorescent bunny. http://www.ekac.org/gfpbunny.html And Natural History of the Enigma, transgenic flower with artist’s own DNA expressed in the red veins, 2003/2008. Collection Weisman Art Museum. http://www.ekac.org/nat.hist.enig.html   Making people think about synthetic biology, Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg …

Synthetic Biology Explained

I think this is a good video to know about synthetic biology! Great starting point.

History of Bioterrorism

Really good resource on the History of Bioterrorism http://www.dshs.state.tx.us/preparedness/bt_public_history.shtm   Extremely complete on 1900 to 2000: W. S. Carus, Bioterrorism and Biocrimes The Illicit Use of Biological Agents Since 1900, vol. 1998, no. February. 2001.

Keeping Science in the Right Hands: Policing the New Biological Frontier

An excellent article by Ronald K. Noble http://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/140157/ronald-k-noble/keeping-science-in-the-right-hands