Carina Earl, Luke Muelhauser, Christine Marie, and Helene Mialet presented insight of their projects this month at the LASER held at Stanford. LASER stands for Leonardo Art/Science Rendezvous and LASERs provide artists and scientists and opportunity to do informal presentations and conversations with audiences who can usually attend LASERs for FREE. I was delighted to … Continue reading
Today some great friends ended their crowdfunding campaign on Indiegogo. uBiome’s Jessica Richman, and her co-founders: Dr. Zachary Apte, and Dr. William Ludington, have all managed to not just pull of a successful campaign, but they were the “FIRST citizen science project to sequence the human microbiome“. Their project is available internationally in 196 countries, … Continue reading
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Below is what Vassar wrote as a facebook wall status update regarding the question he had initially posted, minutes later, this was posted with edits to the actual Edge site. Here is the link to the edited version of that essay: http://edge.org/response-detail/23876 ——— VASSAR’S FB POST: I wished to…
A work of art which did not begin in emotion is not art. Paul Cezanne Spotted: Flowers and attractive men on the streets of SF, sometimes both of them together. Since tech culture exploded, this city might be majorly tech, and known more for the shy than the high strung and loud but the city … Continue reading
I have a lot of friends in science. The re-emergence of citizen science being popular is happening in SF these days, but many of them are trying to figure out how to do science, not spend hours trying to write grants, and find funding still. How do we fund “citizen” scientists? Not everyone has access … Continue reading
Although SV seems to be a forgiving and at times failure promoting space, not too many people talk about their failures until they’ve “made it”. The SV culture has seen an influx of international startups this past couple years, and many of the fresh transplants have a keen interest to know about the failures … Continue reading
Originally posted at: Be a Part of the Summer of Smart Hackathon in San Francisco | Dutiee San Francisco, CA: GAFFTA provided opportunity for Hacking for Public Health and Food Spaces. This is my first hackathon as a participant, after attending over a dozen of them in my life. Day one of the Summer of … Continue reading
I am finally recovered from my road trip to SXSW from San Francisco and ready to share what I learned from my startupRV experience! SXSW interactive attracts startup folks, techies, designers, and tech groupies from all over the world. Last year the conference attracted attendees from 63 different countries, more diverse countries than any of … Continue reading
Originally posted late October 2011 at Dutiee.com here Italy is known for food, design and fashion – Milan its second largest city is considered the center of business and fashion. The current economic crisis has placed Italy in a negative light, this brings us to the people at HUB Milan who are working harder than … Continue reading
Originally posted October 2011 for Dutiee.com here StartuParty, a gathering in Milan of Italy’s entrepreneurs, developers, designers, investors and the others interested in entrepreneurship. StartuParty aims to bring Silicon Valley’s optimism to the tech community in Italy and to develop a robust ecosystem for it to flourish. I happened to be in Milan during the … Continue reading
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