Officials having repartee !… “Late last year, CSCC made a move into English-language websites, with the small team of analysts and microbloggers expanding their fight on Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, and elsewhere, under the banner of the US State Department. @ThinkAgain_DOS is just one of their tools in this digital-outreach turf war. (CSCC has used the …
[google-translator] « La démonstration que des virus enfouis dans le sol il y a plus de trente mille ans puissent survivre et être encore infectieux suggère que la fonte du permafrost due au réchauffement climatique et l’exploitation minière et industrielle des régions arctiques pourraient comporter des risques pour la santé publique », souligne Jean-Michel Claverie …
Math + Meteorology = Ecole Nationale de la Météorologie ENM (http://www.enm.meteo.fr/) –the school I considered along with ENSIMAG + Biodefense –the stuffs I research = fascinating! (http://globalbiodefense.com/2014/03/04/cbrne-external-meteorological-modeling-system/) because yeah… (illustrations from Dr. Zilinskas’ CBW course)
http://www.spiegel.de/international/zeitgeist/george-church-explains-how-dna-will-be-construction-material-of-the-future-a-877634.html Bioethics: “The major issue with creating new life forms is determining the moral status of such entities and what is in their interests. Ethically, we should not create new life forms only to inflict suffering on them.” http://blog.practicalethics.ox.ac.uk/2013/01/back-to-the-future-the-ethics-of-cloning-neanderthals-and-creating-genetically-modified-animals/
Ellen Jorgensen: Biohacking — you can do it, too TED talk 2012
The project Glowing Plant: Natural Lighting without Electricity Now order: Glowing Plant seeds $50 A pack of 50-100 fertile seeds of Glowing Plant Arabidopsis. Use the plants as a nightlight or show them off to your friends. The seeds are expected to ship in September 2014 or Maker Kit $300 The maker kit includes the …
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 …
If you too dream of a sweater made with woolly mammoth wool….(or not) Read http://biobeans.blogspot.com/2013/06/making-chickens-lay-falcon-eggs-science.html The dawn of De-extinction TED talk by Stewart Brand. Reassembling Extinct Genomes Making Chickens Lay Falcon Eggs
DIY Bioterrorism Part I: The Age for Synthetic Biology and the Threat to Global Security January 27, 2014 By Adam Bernier and Patrick Rose DIY Bioterrorism Part I: The Age for Synthetic Biology and the Threat to Global Security Notes: Many countries have been promoting an economic plan that includes the biotechnology industry as a …
From: A. Smith, D. Greenbaum, S. M. Douglas, M. Long, and M. Gerstein, “Network security and data integrity in academia: an assessment and a proposal for large-scale archiving.,” Genome Biol., vol. 6, no. 9, p. 119, Jan. 2005. Concept: vigilance, good policy and planning, and attention to detail in a three-pronged strategy of prevention, detection, and …