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Monthly Archives: September 2010

Ira Glass on Creative Work

Thursday, September 30, 2010

Or, why you have to get through years of doing work you know is kind of crap. Because good taste alone doesn’t make you an artist.

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Taking It to the Streets

Thursday, September 30, 2010

Congratulations to the Biobus and DIYBio NYC on being awarded the Editor’s Prize for their entry in the recent Maker Faire in New York City. Rather than experimental advances — though those may come — I think that in the near term where DIYBio can and will make a significant impact is through education, both […]

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Craig Venter, Businessman? Not So Much

Wednesday, September 8, 2010

Says Andrew Pollock in the New York Times. Regarding his biofuel efforts, the killer quote, I think comes from Jay Keasling: “I don’t know how many decades his funders have given him.” George Church, as he has repeatedly in the past, questions the wisdom and practicality of engineering organisms from scratch rather than simply re-engineering […]

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