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Interview on Talking To ITP

Posted by mang on February 26th, 2007 filed in Thesis, Video

I was interviewed about my thesis a little while ago for Jeffrey Leblanc’s online video show Talking To ITP.
Interview part one
Interview part two

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How Weird denied permit: Save the Faire!

Posted by mang on February 22nd, 2007 filed in General

The How Weird Street Faire is this great street fair in San Francisco. It’s one of those things that makes a city not dead and boring. But this year its permits were denied. SF residents go to the site or the hearing (Feb 22) and show your support!

The How Weird Street Faire [...]

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Thesis Mindmap

Posted by mang on February 19th, 2007 filed in Thesis

I’ve done a lot of research and have started down a few different paths that could become the focus of my thesis or basis for future work. I wrote down the different areas/topics that I’m interested in on a bunch of postit notes and stuck them to the wall. They fall under the [...]

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DNA Computing Presentation

Posted by mang on February 19th, 2007 filed in Thesis

I gave a presentation this week on DNA computing to the ITP Artificial Intelligence and Biologically Inspired Computing discussion group.
DNA computing is fascinating to me since it offers the potential of massive parallelization (trillions of copies in a drop of water), use of DNA as input and output, and tiny power consumption. The basic [...]

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Protein Synthesis: 2007 Flash Version

Posted by mang on February 11th, 2007 filed in Thesis

Dare to compare this Flash animation of RNA translation into protein with the 1970s interpretation I posted earlier this week.

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Protein Synthesis: An Epic on the Cellular Level

Posted by mang on February 7th, 2007 filed in Biology, Dance, Thesis

The brilliant (and twisted) Real Ben Brown sent me this fantastic video of a dance interpretation of protein synthesis carried out with hundreds of students on a football field in 1971. It’s narrated by Nobel laureate Paul Berg and check out that sound track! All kinds of awesome.

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Habana Labs Wind Workshop #3

Posted by mang on February 7th, 2007 filed in Electronics, General, Hacking, Trip Report

The mission of Habana Labs in Brooklyn is to research, develop and apply technology related to ecology and sustainable energy. Their focus is on empowering local communities to take part and their approach is very hands on. At their third in a series of workshops on wind power the focus was on the [...]

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Blue Flower on Make Blog

Posted by mang on February 3rd, 2007 filed in Electronics, General

Blue Flower was featured on Make: Magazine’s blog yesterday. Awesome!

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[silence] at Gigantic Art Space

Posted by mang on February 1st, 2007 filed in General, Trip Report

Took a break today and went to the opening of [silence] at Gigantic Art Space. The show runs through Feb 24. (The link for the show is to the "current" page at GAS… too bad there’s no permalink for current events!)
Douglas Repetto has his Puff, Bang, Reverb installed and there was a nice [...]

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