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[valeryrizzo]

Cheryl Paswater of Contraband Ferments teaching a workshop at GenSpace. Shot for Edible Brooklyn’s Innovation Issue.

[themomtropolis]

Date Night - Did I Marry a Mutant?

Date Night – Did I Marry a Mutant?

  Some of the Weird Science at Genspace Are your date nights stale? Does conversation lull as you come face to face with a wall of work week exhaustion heightened by the effects of wine and digestion only to realize every topic has been covered over the last 20 years? Are your date nights so predictable your husband resorts to a State of the Fridge address on the unequal milk to cereal ratio at…

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[ashleymarieandthesea]

Found out the second video from the Enquete Gowanus project I participated in is up. Here we are in the lab after Ellen and the team had dredged the canal for samples. Our task was to extract DNA from the samples which would then be sent off to be sequenced. 

See the first video here.

[hyperallergic]

A microbe-filled petri dish isn’t usually where one would expect to find art, but it turns out that cell colonies can form some pretty compelling visuals. We’ve already seen the potential of slime mold and the bacteria from Hans Ulrich Obrist’s nose, so it’s only natural that the medium is growing (in more ways than one): this year, the American Society for Microbiology (ASM) launched its first Agar Art contest, inviting ASM members to get creative and paint with microorganisms within the framework of a petri dish. The society announced its winners last week, but we had some fun poking through the many submissions, which do show that yes, bacteria can be beautiful.

Art Grown in a Petri Dish

[boldsignalspodcast]

The folks over at Genspace were kind enough to record my talk about cutting edge neuroscience (connectomics! neuron tracing with rabies! diaper-inspired microscopy! optogenetics! controlling brains with light!) and put the the video on YouTube. If you want to hear me poke holes in DIY brain stimulation, neuromarketing, and brain games, this is the talk for you.

I’ve made the slides available under the ‘Classes, Lectures, and Talks’ tab and, when I can find the time, I’ll also post a list of annotations and further resources.

[boldsignalspodcast]

Since we are in the midst of the Decade of the Mind (not to be confused with the Decade of the Brain), we are constantly inundated by reports of new neuroscience. From direct brain to brain communication, to memory manipulation, to cognition enhancing cybernetics and genetics, cutting edge neuroscience often sounds more like science fiction than actual science. This talk will separate the fact from the fiction of modern neuroscience. We'll discuss the science behind cutting edge neuroscience techniques like Brainbow, expansion microscopy, and functional connectomics and how widely publicized advances in building artificial brains and using apps to detect and affect mental states is more fiction than fact.

To cover hosting costs for Bold Signals, I've been giving science talks geared towards non-scientists throughout Brooklyn. My next talk should be a fun one, I’ll be talking about cutting edge neuroscience (and ranting about neuro-nonsense) next week at Genspace. 

Eventually this material may make it’s way into a bonus episode of the podcast.

[micromultiverse]

Forbes Now: The New Biohackers: How (And Where) They Work.

[rockhyrax]

So I've been making weekly science shorts for work. Here's the latest, most succinct, and most impressionistic. Plus, while I always make simple music for these, this one has more of a full song since there's less dialogue to work around.

More in the Imagine Science Spotlight Series playlist.