Monthly Archives: May 2006

the human genome project has constructed an efficacious model of life. rendered in information, it will be possible to program extensions to the genome. we’ll target the “junk” dna–strands of information that appears to have no obvious correlate in organic form or function. forgetting the extremely problematic proposition that we program bits of dna whose [...]

how far back do you need to go to find the authentic? back before the city existed? or back to a dead, unchanging city? back to colonial Williamsburg? Cities change, it is their nature to change, like a waterfall whose main definable quality is water rushing over the edge.

The project involves creating cDNA libraries of songbirds vocally communicating in different social context and under different developmental states, and using this library to create cDNA microarrays to ask questions about vocal learning and vocal communication. The project involves collaboration with the Duke University Center for Genome Technology. The Center has a cDNA microarrayer capable [...]