Difference between revisions of "Biswajith Manimaran"
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1. What is life? | 1. What is life? | ||
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2. Do we have the right to modify living things? | 2. Do we have the right to modify living things? | ||
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3. What is design according to you? | 3. What is design according to you? | ||
And here are my answers: | And here are my answers: | ||
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1. Life™ is a board game. Just kidding. Actually, life is a journey. No, but seriously. The term life refers to anything that can reproduce its own kind and reacts to its environment in a way that favours this reproduction, but most importantly life is choice. | 1. Life™ is a board game. Just kidding. Actually, life is a journey. No, but seriously. The term life refers to anything that can reproduce its own kind and reacts to its environment in a way that favours this reproduction, but most importantly life is choice. | ||
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2. The only laws that restrict us are those of God, the ones that do not need reinforcement because they CANNOT be violated: what we have labeled as the laws of physics. If we are capable of doing it we have the right to do it. However, we also have our discretion. | 2. The only laws that restrict us are those of God, the ones that do not need reinforcement because they CANNOT be violated: what we have labeled as the laws of physics. If we are capable of doing it we have the right to do it. However, we also have our discretion. | ||
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3. To me design is combining aesthetics and function. | 3. To me design is combining aesthetics and function. | ||
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The rest of the day we spent documenting the construction of our microscope and planningout our bacteria cultures. | The rest of the day we spent documenting the construction of our microscope and planningout our bacteria cultures. | ||
Revision as of 07:15, 29 May 2011
DAY 1
a form of life that has no form
DAY 2
simple DNA extraction
Aim: to extract DNA using detergent and alcohol
What I did with my DNA
Rituals are a large part of being human and spill into the scientific field as well. We took it a step further by coming up with our own rituals.
You know the old saying: “What Mary eats, Mary is”*? So I swallowed it.
Day 3
We began the long process of building our own lab today. Sure the equipment won't be the finest around, but we will know exactly what each device does and how each part functions. The group I am in is responsible for making a desiccator and a laminar airflow bench. We spent several minutes researching the devices and their functioning and several more figuring out how to emulate them. We will start building them next week. Also each group made a microscope from a webcam. This is how we made the microscope: [Link to come] This is how we made the housing for the microscope: [Link to come] The microscope has a magnification factor of slightly over 100.
Day 4
We started the day by considering the following questions:
1. What is life?
2. Do we have the right to modify living things?
3. What is design according to you?
And here are my answers:
1. Life™ is a board game. Just kidding. Actually, life is a journey. No, but seriously. The term life refers to anything that can reproduce its own kind and reacts to its environment in a way that favours this reproduction, but most importantly life is choice.
2. The only laws that restrict us are those of God, the ones that do not need reinforcement because they CANNOT be violated: what we have labeled as the laws of physics. If we are capable of doing it we have the right to do it. However, we also have our discretion.
3. To me design is combining aesthetics and function.
The rest of the day we spent documenting the construction of our microscope and planningout our bacteria cultures.
