Update: Since I wrote this, a posting on hackernews around MetaMed has gained a buzz, join the discussion. MetaMed is also on twitter. New York, NY: MetaMed, a start-up backed by PayPal co-founder and billionaire Peter Thiel and co-founded by Skype founder Jaan Tallinn, has begun accepting new patients who want to be certain they … Continue reading
San Francisco, CA: Mark Zuckerberg is on a role of showing his love for not just tech, but (finally!) life sciences too. This week a video that was going all over the internet, showed Zucherberg teamed up with Bill Gates, and various other founders and celebrities, to promote the vision of code.org, which itself has … Continue reading
MYO, by Canadian Thalmic Labs, is a gesture control armband that is currently on preorder, is planned to sell for $149 usd off their site. The website has a video of the product and holds a caption that points to a potential that will have us all gesturing our commands. I suppose Italians will … Continue reading
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
Originally posted on Action to Create:
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
mango heart shape I photographed in Myanmar’s Mandalay. *Note: If you are the bearer of the compliment, be kind enough to accept it, this is also a good day not to be a Grinch or negative about anyone approaching you with kindness. Social experiments where one interacts with strangers are easier to do on days … 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
Living here is odd when you do media. I am always at a conference and I’m constantly surrounded by men, but I definitely give the “don’t want to date a single one of you” vibe, which isn’t really true, but I like to separate professional and personal life. Unfortunately, now that I’m single, it feels … Continue reading
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