Lab

Essays

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  Reflections on Dynamicland

  2018 • What if rather than looking through the looking glass into Alice’s Wonderland, the world itself became the Wonderland?
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  Orders of Magnitude in Science Communication

  2017 • How do we describe systems across multiple orders of magnitude?
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  An Experiment in Personal Healthcare Protocols

  2017 • How can healthcare plans be managed more easily?
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  Envisioning Change in Science Communication

  2017 • Thoughts on iteration, phase shifts, and stasis
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  Known Unknowns and Unknown Unknowns

  2017 • How do we describe what we don’t yet know?
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  Blended Systems in Design & Biology

  2017 • What can designers learn from chloroplasts?
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  The Soul of a Design

  2017 • Is it possible for design to have soul?
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  Visualizing Levels of Confidence in Science Communication

  2017 • How much do we really know?
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  The Languages of Chemistry: A Review

  2017 • We live in a chemical world. How are we currently describing it?
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  Living, Breathing Products: Thoughts on Organic Design

  2017 • Lately I’ve noticed some trends converging into a larger trend that might aptly be described as Organic Design.
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  Coping with Complexity: A Design Perspective of Biotech and Science

  2017 • The biotech world is a fascinating place to be right now.
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  Free Will vs Biological Determinism

  2017 • I want to briefly address a recent RadioLab episode “Revising the Fault Line”, which raises a solid question regarding free will.
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  Aesthetic Biotech: Petunias, Iridescence, and Flamethrowers

  2017 • For centuries, plant breeders have dominated the aesthetic plant domain, mostly through hybridization. Orchid breeders, the interesting…
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  CCL Plant Bio: A space for plant biotech in the Bay

  2016 • Around February 2016, I came across a WSJ article about a guy named Sebastian Cocioba, a self-taught biohacker in New York. It explained…
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  Design Principles in Nature

  2014 • What design principles lead to Nature being so incredible?