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Understanding PIPA/SOPA & Why You Should Be Concerned

Really well done video.  I don’t condone theft (especially as a young artist) but there must be a better way to deal with this issue. Watch.

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Capturing video at a trillion frames per second - MIT Media Lab

From the NYTimes:

“More than 70 years ago, the M.I.T. electrical engineer Harold (Doc) Edgerton began using strobe lights to create remarkable photographs: a bullet stopped in flight as it pierced an apple, the coronet created by the splash of a drop of milk.

Now scientists at M.I.T.’s Media Lab are using an ultrafast imaging system to capture light itself as it passes through liquids and objects, in effect snapping a picture in less than two-trillionths of a second…”

This is absolutely incredible.

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#441: When Patents Attack! →

This American Life

Why would a company rent an office in a tiny town in East Texas, put a nameplate on the door, and leave it completely empty for a year? The answer involves a controversial billionaire physicist in Seattle, a 40 pound cookbook, and a war waging right now, all across the software and tech industries.


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Gauging your health using sing color-coded poo. “Synthetic biology is all about re-engineering living organisms to make them do stuff we would find useful — like eating oil spills or excreting superfuels. It’s a tall order, but we’re well on our way already. Still, a slightly easier tactic would be to just tweak the design of organisms that already exist, rather than building synthetic genomes from scratch. Designers Daisy Ginsberg and James King and their scientist colleagues at Cambridge University did exactly that with a project called E.Chromi, which turned e.coli bacteria into living, color-coded sensors that can be “programmed” to secrete an array of bright hues in the presence of certain chemicals. In the future, E.Chromi-like bugs could live in your gut and give you an early-warning signal for an oncoming illness by turning your poop blue. (Yup, they’re serious.)…” Ok, a few things: FINALLY This is actually pretty remarkable science.  Watch the video on the article page to see what other color-sensitive things these researchers are thinking up. That picture……

Gauging your health using sing color-coded poo.

“Synthetic biology is all about re-engineering living organisms to make them do stuff we would find useful — like eating oil spills or excreting superfuels. It’s a tall order, but we’re well on our way already. Still, a slightly easier tactic would be to just tweak the design of organisms that already exist, rather than building synthetic genomes from scratch. Designers Daisy Ginsberg and James King and their scientist colleagues at Cambridge University did exactly that with a project called E.Chromi, which turned e.coli bacteria into living, color-coded sensors that can be “programmed” to secrete an array of bright hues in the presence of certain chemicals. In the future, E.Chromi-like bugs could live in your gut and give you an early-warning signal for an oncoming illness by turning your poop blue. (Yup, they’re serious.)…”

Ok, a few things:

  1. FINALLY
  2. This is actually pretty remarkable science.  Watch the video on the article page to see what other color-sensitive things these researchers are thinking up.
  3. That picture……

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