Journal

A few interesting things.

Tissue Culture Lab

Yesterday, I read this article that came in two parts. It was of particular interest to me because I happened to be writing about bioethics and was taking a break by checking out my RSS feed.

[Part 1 via we make money not art]
[Part 2 via we make money not art]

“The aim of the wet lab was not to have us run our own lab. The objective of the workshop was to present the general public with the technology and the dilemmas that accompanies it. A hands-on approach takes the technology beyond a strictly scientific approach and informs the debate on the ethical, cultural and social implication of tissue culture. What does it mean to work with living, semi-living or formely living beings? What does it mean to grow disembodied cells from a former organism? What’s the meaning of tissue culture for artistic purposes versus health application? Or the development of a new weapon?”

I like particularly that there is an artistic dimension to it that I wouldn’t quite have thought of.

New Doctor Who Logo

Here’s the Doctor Who logo going into 2010. [via BBC] I think it’s lovely because it definitely reminds me of the old Who in a good way. I suppose they’ve stopped needing to appear new and trendy, and that it’ll draw upon some of the old series in the Moffat era.

QM Microscopy

MIT electrical engineers propose a quantum mechanical measurement method that, unlike electron microscopy, will not require electrons to bounce off the material surface in order to produce an image, thus avoiding sample damage. [via PhysOrg]

Two Artists

Fleet Street Scandal is an online store features the art of Kevin Dart and Chris Turnham, and I really quite like it. [via Fleet Street Scandal] On the other hand, Ghee Happy is an endeavour by Sanjay Patel that “celebrates Indian/Hindu mythologies and culture [through] design and storytelling in a fun and charming way.” [via Ghee Happy]

Book recommendation will be up next, I think.

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