Update: CRISPR
It’s been almost two years since we learned about CRISPR, a ninja-assassin-meets-DNA-editing-tool that has been billed as one of the most powerful, and potentially controversial, technologies ever discovered by scientists.
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Badass of the Week: Cliff Young – StumbleUpon
“I grew up on a farm where we couldn’t afford horses or four wheel drives… whenever the storms would roll in, I’d have to go out and round up the sheep. We had 2,000 head, and we have 2,000 acres. Sometimes I would have to run those sheep for two or three days. It took…
7 thoughts on “Read posts nearly perfected!”
Hoorah, hooray! In a project which I started just before IndieWebCamp LA in November, I’ve moved a big step closer to perfecting my “Read” posts! Thanks in large part to WordPress, PressForward, friends and help on the IndieWeb site too numerous to count, and a little bit of elbow grease, I can now receive and read RSS feeds in my own website UI (farewell Feedly), bookmark posts I want to read later (so long Pocket, Instagram, Delicious and Pinboard), mark them as read when done, archive them on my site (and hopefully on the Internet Archive as well) for future reference, highlight and annotate them (I still love you hypothes.is, but…), and even syndicate (POSSE) them automatically (with emoji) to silos like Facebook, Twitter (with Twitter Cards), Tumblr, Flipboard, LinkedIn, Pinterest, StumbleUpon, Reddit, and Delicious among others.
‘The Trails Are Free’ Brings TARC, Ultrarunning Culture to the Big Screen
Lindsey Topham didn’t have filmmaking on her mind when she first connected with the Trail Animals Running Club in 2009. Instead, the Boston University graduate student was looking to photograph ultrarunners for a multimedia assignment.
मैं कैसा मुसलमान हूँ? – हुसैन हैदरी
Watch this today, if nothing else! सड़क पर सिगरेट पीते वक़्त जो अजां सुनाई दी मुझको