Interview with Natalie Jeremijenko 87
cynical writes "From releasing packs of Feral Robot Dogs that sniff out chemical contamination, to teaching Yale engineering students socially responsible design, to co-authoring Biotech Hobbyist Magazine, Natalie Jeremijenko's work merges engineering, biology, politics and art. Enviro-tech blog WorldChanging has an exclusive interview with Jeremijenko where she discusses how art and technology mix, garage biotech, and being the "Q" (from James Bond) of the activist community."
The important Slashdot question (Score:3, Funny)
Q (Score:3, Funny)
It would have been more interesting if she was the Q [bbc.co.uk] (from ST:TNG) of the activist community.
Interesting... (Score:1, Funny)
Hmmm... I thought it was Arnold Schwarzenegger's job.
Feral Robot Dogs are not socially responsible (Score:1, Funny)
Skin culture experiment looks fun (Score:5, Funny)
I strongly believe that biotech is the logical next place for the DIY revolution or the hacker approach to innovation or whatever you want to call it and that a key to getting there is for people to digest the journal articles and make it doable for people at home.
This is such a hot area for the DIY enthusiast because its an intersection of so many skills that are already honed by being a computer geek.
I'm quite impressed and I can't wait to see more.
Interesting that Biotechhobbyist seems to be from UCSD. I've covered a really cool story coming out of the same campus called the Discode project which calls itself an open-source biotech hardware project. It uses CD-ROMs and inkjet printers to enable DIY molecular interaction screening. Amazing stuff.
I hear they're still looking for Linux kernel hackers with good understading of CD-ROM drivers. If you're in San Diego and you're a CD hacker, you should check out the project.
Re:Skin culture experiment looks fun (Score:1, Funny)
But when I'm writing something multithreaded and accidentally fork-bomb my computer, it doesn't jump out of it's box and eat me.
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Funny quote: (Score:3, Funny)
That's a tin foil hat [google.com], you stupid! Put it on your head!
Re:I can't believe you guys! (Score:5, Funny)
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>Here we have a story about a brilliant young woman and and the first thing you do is ask for pictures of her? Maybe asking for pictures of her is your first instinct, but it is not mine. Mine was to do a Google image search...
This is Slashdot, not Fark. She's not just a "woman". She's not just a "brilliant young woman". She's got a name. Natalie.