Archive for July, 2007

Yale Friedman’s presentation on the business of biotechnology

Monday, July 23rd, 2007

This is a a short introductory presentation on the business of biotechnology from Yali Friedman, former about.com guide, author of Building Biotechnology, and managing editor of the Journal of Commercial Biotechnology.

Two interesting videos

Sunday, July 22nd, 2007

Below are links to two video’s that I found.

One is an interview with Stuart Kauffman. His work on defining life in terms of networks is novel and at present unproven. He thinks and write of life, the biosphere, the universe, the cell in turn of networks. This one sentence synopses of his work is extraordinary simplified and the video will give you a much better appreciation of his work.

My interest in his work is the possibility of network thinking may have on the idea that the mind is not solely located in the brain. That the mind is, at least in part, a whole body phenomena and an energetic one at that. Of course, this is total speculation and NOT part of his work at all.

The second video is the most graphic way I have seen cell processes displayed. So much of what happens in a cell cannot be seen and when it can it happens so slowly that it is difficult to comprehend. Acutually stunning is the best way I have of describing this video. Well worth the 3 minutes of time it takes to watch it. You will want to watch it again; its that good. The full narrated version and other video can be found at the Multimedia Production Site at Harvard.

The Beginning

Sunday, July 8th, 2007

Today I installed WordPress on my site hosted by godaddy.  I am getting to know the layout and controls.  I expect to post about once a month or so.