Archive for the ‘Videos’ Category
Funky NoSQL vs SQL
MongoDB is Web Scale MySQL is Not ACID Compliant via http://nosql.mypopescu.com/
Science changes the world, sometimes the world changes the science, we are overdue
Dr. Monica Anderson talks about reductionism vs holism in science. She also suggests that artificial intelligence failed because intelligence is too holistic and by its nature it always attracted the hardcore reductionists. One of my favorite quote from this talk [...]
The Interactorium visualization
The Interactorium is a platform developed at University of New South Wales to visualise very large interactome datasets such as one incorporating up to 40,000 proteins or 6000 multiprotein complexes, in context of 3D virtual cell. It is built on [...]
Symphony and synchrony of bacterial time keeping machines
One of the coolest videos I ever seen, demonstrating the enormous potential of synthetic biology. Its nearly 10 years since the advent of the synthetic biology and the very first synthetic biological oscillator. Despite all challenges and hypes synthetic biology [...]
Reinventing the drug discovery wih synthetic biology
Andrew Hessel talks about his initiative the Pink Army Collective (PAC), a company inspired from principle and success of open source movements such as Apache and Linux. If it works PAC will bring fundamental change to the way drugs are [...]
When easy technology comes with uneasy bugs
Brad Templeton chairman of the Electronic Frontier Foundation talks about the dark side of cloud computing and one click technolgies. Brad who is strong advocate for improving civil rights and privacy in cyberspace suggests that devil is in the detail [...]
Mackenzie Cowell's Fascination with Synthetic Biology
Mackenzie Cowell is one of the founders of DIYbio.org, an organization that aims to help make biology a worthwhile pursuit for citizen scientists, amateur biologists, and DIY biological engineers who value openness and safety. Mackenzie was recently interviewed by MAKE [...]
