Category: chemistry
May 18, 2012
February 26, 2012
Paul Stamets at TEDMED 2011
Must-See Paul Stamets TEDMED talk about some truly awe-inspiring developments in medicinal and economic mycology:
January 12, 2012
The Strange World of Molecular and Cellular Biology Animated
New Drew Berry animations! These are insane!!!
December 22, 2011
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
December 21, 2011
December 5, 2011
O Ferrofluid Fortuna!
Limitless lilting landscapes of light
irridescently emerging, elegantly inverting and mellifluently merging.
Mesophase geometries reveal resonant chromatic complements
interlaced in magnetic dream spirals.
Prismatic tides and horizons bursting with beauty
glimpsed behind the ethereal veils of time.
November 17, 2011
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
November 12, 2011
Open Source Science
Peter Binfield, PhD, publisher of PLoS ONE, the wildly successful open-access science journal, discusses the future of scholarly research and publishing at the Stanford Summit @ Medicine 2.0 on Sept. 16, 2011.
October 13, 2011
Providing a Better Living Through Chemistry to a Generation.
An exquisite 8 minute documentary-style interview with Nick Sand, the chemical revolutionary who synthesized the renowned Orange Sunshine and was the first person to discover the effects of DMT could be experienced by smoking it.
October 7, 2011
Occupy The Mind – Legalize DMT.
DMT is chemical produced and used by the human nervous system. It can be found in almost any plant or animal species and is a psychedelic chemical that is used in shamanic healing practices of South America. DMT is also listed as a Schedule 1 substance. According to the US government, not only are nature and shamanism illegal, but so are YOU, of possession AND manufacturing of an “illegal narcotic.”
