Ned Gulley’s Blog. Resident buzzwords: synthetic biology, ambient displays, swarm robotics, wise crowds.
Posted in Uncategorized on Oct 11th, 2001
The latest Nobel prize in physics honors Eric A. Cornell, Wolfgang Ketterle, and Carl E. Wieman for work with Bose-Einstein condensation in dilute gases of alkali atoms. What’s that? You don’t really know what Bose-Einstein condensation is? Take a look at the Bose-Einstein condensation homepage at the University of Colorado at Boulder. They have [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Oct 9th, 2001
Bin Laden’s warning: full text courtesy of the BBC. Read what the man has to say.
Posted in Uncategorized on Oct 9th, 2001
After several months of not posting anything, I’ve finally written another piece for the main Star Chamber site, my take on the current political situation. Agree? Disagree? Send me some mail.
Posted in Essay on Oct 8th, 2001
I. SPECTACLE
As brutal stagecraft, the attack on the World Trade Center was perfection. You could almost split the moment right down the middle: nauseating mind-numbing horror on the one side and pornographic mesmerizing spectacle on the other (so that’s what it looks like when you fly a plane into a building…). It was perfectly calculated [...]
Posted in Biology on Oct 1st, 2001
Speaking of genomic cartography (see Benjamin Fry item below), here is an article from the Genome News Network about optical mapping. As far as I can tell, it’s mostly just wrapping the sequences to be aligned around a circle. Still, it looks nice.
