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Craig Venter: Synthetic Life

Here’s an amazing talk by Craig Venter about creating synthetic life forms. They’ve already coded life and successfully reprograms a cell, and they expect to be able to convert sunlight and CO2 into oil in 18 months!

Science kicks ass.


Finding Solutions by Mark Dworkin

Finding Solutions from Mark Dworkin on Vimeo.


Michael Pollan and some permaculture

As a few of you know, I’m taking a permaculture course. I’m not sure that I’ve found the perfect venue for it, but anyway it’s a fascinating way of growing thing. It’s a fascinating way of looking at ecology, at least for me who has spent a lot of time building large systems […]


Sustainability

Many years ago I spend a few months of my travels working at the Aravind Eye Hospitals in Madurai India. It was, by the number of cataract operations it did a year, one of the largest hospitals in the world, doing something like 150,000 operations a year. (I remember my mother saying that […]