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OSCon 2011: the citizen science track

This past week was the Open Source Convention hosted by Oreily. And I'm very pleased to report on their new track on Citizen Science. They also had two wonderful citizen science keynotes. Futurist and Space Hacker,Ariel Waldman gave an Read More →

A Quick Look Inside Genspace: a DIYbio Lab

This past week I was invited to NYC along with other members of the DIYbio community to take part in a FBI/DIYbio Workshop. And before I address the issue of "What in the world does the FBI want with Read More →

Near-Infrared Camera Conversion

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XFOHWaL7XsM&feature=related The Public Laboratory for Open Technology and Science(PLOTS) present this surprisingly simple yet  effective conversion of a cheap digital camera into a near-infrared camera. Now why would you want to convert your camera so it only takes pictures of something Read More →

Chloroplast and Sea Slug symbiosis

[caption id="attachment_2894" align="aligncenter" width="279" caption="Photo Credit: Patrick Krug, Cataloging Diversity in the Sacoglossa LifeDesk"]Elysia chlorotica[/caption] Come one, come all! See the amazing, the astonishing, half-animal, half-plant! Journey to Tampa Bay, Read More →

Open Source, Inkjet based oligonucleotide synthesizer and microarrayer

At last weeks SB5.0 conference, Siyuan Chen, an engineer from Agilent Technologies, remarked during his talk that one "shouldn't try to get DNA synthesis to work with a home computer because it wouldn't work". This is a gauntlet thrown if Read More →

Insects of Costa Rica (Podcast)

[caption id="attachment_2875" align="aligncenter" width="300" caption="Photo Credit: Acrocynus, Wikimedia Commons"][/caption] In this episode, we travel to Costa Rica to experience firsthand the astonishing variety of insect life in this tiny Central American nation—20,000 different Read More →
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