Curious about Biology? Help launch Biocurious, the new biology collaborative lab space where citizen science moves out of the classroom and into the community. Following the successful example of hackerspaces such as Noisebridge, Langdon Labs, Hacker Dojo, and co-working spaces such as the Hub, BioCurious pleased to offer the first Bay Area space dedicated to Non Institutional Biology.
How is this possible? Governments and big business once dominated computing. Today, entrepreneurs and hobbyists play leading roles in developing computing technologies and products, both hardware and software. The tools for serious biological engineering are getting cheaper all the time, but aspiring entrepreneurs lack affordable access to a complete set of lab equipment outside of a university lab or high priced industrial commercial space. Motto: Safety, Education, Innovation.
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Eri Gentry
Eri Gentry graduated with a BA from Yale in 2006, and has since worked as a business analyst for investment firms and startup companies in New York City and Silicon Valley. In 2009, she co-founded Livly to help millions suffering incurable disease and enable others to do the same.
Gentry's mission is to help bring together the brightest minds in every field, who, together, can challenge the world's most dangerous diseases.
Joseph Jackson
Joseph Jackson is a philosopher, social entrepreneur, activist and organizer in the Open Science Movement. He has been studying the political and economic phenomenon of peer to peer, P2P, since encountering Napster in 2001. He advocates for a transition to a decentralized political economy in which abundantly distributed technologies, fully hackable to suit local needs, form the basis for sustainable prosperity.
Study of living things and their vital processes. An extremely broad subject, biology is divided into branches. The current approach is based on the levels of biological organization involved (e.g., molecules, cells, individuals, populations) and on the specific topic under investigation (e.g., structure and function, growth and development). According to this scheme, biology's main subdivisions include morphology, physiology, taxonomy, embryology, genetics, and ecology, each of which can be further subdivided. Alternatively, biology can be divided into fields especially concerned with one type of living thing; for example, botany (plants), zoology (animals), ornithology (birds), entomology (insects), mycology (fungi), microbiology (microorganisms), and bacteriology (bacteria). See alsobiochemistry; molecular biology.
A. This should be downloadable, it's f**king great content.
B. When I see the germination of these new hacker-spaces (hacker dojo, biocurious, tech shop, 826 National organization) I see the seeds of the end of traditional models of education. THIS IS EXCITING (like Barack Obama's 2004 DNC convention speech, presaging his 2008 presidential campaign). In Dave Egger's (826 org founder, 826 is an English language hacker-space for kids) TED speech he talks about students moving a grade level every 40 hours of tutoring. Does this rule follow for people after grade school? can you spend two or three hours a night for a year and come away with a level of experience and knowledge equal to that of a biology major? The initial steps of the personal computer revolution were done at the Homebrew Computer Club. The hacker spaces represent the next generation of change, distributed (like the organizations in Paul Hawken's LNF talk) and the change that will emerge from our unpleasant eco-econo-social-miasma (that is taking place simultaneously with accelerating scientific and technological progress).
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