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Small Comfort: Becoming DNA Literate

October 4th, 2006
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1:01 Feature Story: Small Comfort
Did you know that television crime scene investigation shows do more than entertain you? They are preparing you for an emerging future where you’ll be as conversant in the language of DNA as you are in your native tongue. Wayne Pethrick, futurist and FringeHog
contributor explains it all in our feature story Small Comfort.

7:01 Thought Tapa: Everyday Nano

Did you know that you probably have products in your home that use nanotechnologyTune in to Michele’s thought tapa to find out how nanotechnology is increasingly being incorporated into products you use everyday.

9:43 Thought Tapa: Vein Viewer

If you dread having blood drawn because you don’t like being a human pincushion then Sandra’s thought tapa will interest you. She reports on a breakthrough technology that is saving lives on the battlefield as well as at home and bringing an end to the pin cushion problem.

Digital Digs: Places to go things to do and see on the Internet and around the world

12:26 Pop! Tech Dangerous Ideas Laser printed sushi and more?

13:30 Eyebeam Reentry NYC: Synthetic Meteor Shower

13:49 Ten x Ten Your world in a 10 by 10 picture matrix

Show Notes: Links to more information about ideas in this show.

Quorum Sensing

FLOW: Flow is a game where you swim in the blue world of blue probacterial soft soap as a hungry microbe

Small Comfort Trend Example: FDA Approves Viruses as Food Additive

Lost in Lost

Linearity (Video Games)

Non-Linear > Rhizomal Thinking

Project on Emerging Nanotechnologies

Nanotechnologies Inventories

Vein Viewer

 
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One Response to “Small Comfort: Becoming DNA Literate”

  1. Biology and Zoology Says:

    Biology and Zoology…

    I couldn’t understand some parts of this article, but it sounds interesting…

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