For 27 years now, Jon Solomon has hosted a 24-hour Christmas radio show on WPRB, an independent radio station in Princeton, NJ. Steering clear of the obvious shlock that dominates the airwaves, his show unearths obscure, distorted, cracked, and often touching tributes to the holiday season. If your idea of Christmas music involves parodies of the classics played […]
I have been working closely with Raul Rabadan, an associate professor at Columbia University, on launching an exciting new research center sponsored by the National Cancer Institute’s Physical Sciences in Oncology program. He and a multidisciplinary team of investigators at Columbia and other institutions will be using advanced mathematical approaches to analyze data generated with new single-cell experimental […]
On Saturday I participated in my town’s first Maker Faire. It was a good excuse to have good prints made of several recent Processing sketches. Thanks to Graphic Lab in NYC for the printing and to the Glen Ridge Public Library for hosting.
Here are some quick shots of a brochure I recently assembled for the Columbia University Department of Systems Biology. It compiles writing I did for them in 2014, including coverage of key papers and interviews with two faculty members. In addition to the writing, I also did the layout in InDesign. I’m very happy to […]
I recently had a chance to interview Harris Wang, a young researcher at Columbia University who is doing some very exciting work in synthetic biology. He recently published a new method called (MO)-MAGE, which makes it possible to deliver large numbers of targeted mutations in E. coli simultaneously. The implications are quite fascinating, both in terms […]
Last week I reported on a very interesting paper published researchers at Columbia University and Stanford University. Here’s the opening. Follow the link below to read the full article. In a new paper published in the journal Cell, a team of researchers led by Dana Pe’er at Columbia University and Garry Nolan at Stanford University describes a powerful […]
Last weekend I took a two-day class titled “Screenprinting 101” at the Printmaking Center of New Jersey. It was taught by Dave DiMarchi, a Montclair, NJ, based printer and bookmaker. Saturday focused on the basics of how screens are prepared, some techniques for drawing designs by hand, and the mechanics of pulling prints. On Sunday, […]
I’ve been working on a set of Processing sketches that start from an oscillating sine wave. This is created by making a bezier whose anchor points are at either sides of your window, and setting two control points that oscillate up and down in opposite directions. When you stack multiple iterations of the same function, […]
I recently had a chance to speak with Saeed Tavazoie, a professor of systems biology at Columbia University, about his work. He gave a very cogent overview of his perspective on the future of biological research, and some really fascinating projects that his lab has been working on. Here is a short snippet, but I’d […]