The Era of Entanglement: Humanity Is ‘Back to the Jungle’

TEDxRotterdam – Wireless power will lead the future.

Arduino: The Documentary (2010)

Arduino is an open source microcontroller (circuit board/computer). Below is a trailer for a 1/2 hour documentary about Arduino, which can be seen @ http://arduinothedocumentary.org/

Real ‘Kitchen Synthesizer’ w/ Arduino to iPad MIDI

If anyone saw that ktichen-synthesizer video, apparently it was faked, but no worries because here’s a real one that’s way cooler! Thanks @BrettThePark

A primer on 3D printing

Must see.

Synthetic Biology Explained

Wonderfully made video explaining synthetic bio in an accessible and easy to understand way.

A Brief History of Anonymous

Brief, but quite detailed, interesting and entertaining:

DNA Code Gets First Grammatical Update In 60 Years

Scientist crunch numbers from 32 different species and reveal fractal grammar behind ratios of codons and oligonucleotides.

For 60 years, biologists have known of only two grammar-like rules that govern the language of DNA. Now they’ve found four more

The Austrian biochemist, Erwin Chargaff, is famous for the two rules he discovered that now bear his name. At the time of this discovery, in 1950, the biggest problem in biology was understanding the structure of DNA. Chargaff’s rules turned out to be an important clue in this puzzle.
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Chargaff’s rules are important because they point to a kind of “grammar of biology”, a set of hidden rules that govern the structure of DNA. This grammar ought to reveal itself as patterns in DNA that are invariant across all species.

But in the 60 years since Chargaff discovered his invariant patterns, no others have emerged. Until now.

technologyreview.com/blog/arxiv

The Incredible Future of Medicine

We live in dramatic times.

The New Cybernetics

Editor in chief of WIRED magazine, Chris Anderson speaks @ TEDx Silicon Valley 2011 and shares some incredibly thought-provoking futures combining distributed sensorial networks and statistical data analysis for health, self-improvement and scientific research.

Open Science Summit Videos

Videos of presentations from the 2011 Open Science Summit can be viewed at Fora TV.
Wonderfully juicy topics include open source drug discovery, big data bioinformatics, ‘clinical trials 2.0’, open science education, open access science journalism, personal genomics, radical longevity, transparency in science, incentive and intellectual property: FORA.TV

Terence McKenna – Time Acceleration