[Noisebridge-discuss] Another DIYbio thread!

[William Heath]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=teV62zrm2P0&feature=PlayList&p=34778DBD14B84C30&index=0&playnext=1
The cell is running a program, look at what a codon is:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NJxobgkPEAo

On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 12:02 PM, William Heath <wgheath at gmail.com> wrote:

> Look how powerful the technology is!
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> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fZZ3DD_tV9k&feature=related
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> On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 11:59 AM, Seth David Schoen <schoen at loyalty.org>wrote:
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>> William Heath writes:
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>> > We have followed the proper protocols to collaborate and are being
>> excellent
>> > to you all.  We had approval from the safety committee etc...
>>
>> I think we may have had a misunderstanding about this, because although
>> the safety committee did discuss your activities at our recent meeting,
>> our conclusion was that we would like to know more about your plans and
>> try to get someone uninvolved to have a look at them, rather than that
>> we had seen your plans and that we were happy with them.
>>
>> However, a possibly more important point from the safety meeting, which
>> I mentioned at last week's general meeting, was that we didn't know
>> whether there was a consensus from the general meeting about whether the
>> safety committee -- or anybody else -- could or should review or approve
>> projects when they appeared to involve unusually dangerous materials or
>> activities.  The safety committee is comfortable with doing
>> uncontroversial things that make the space safer in general (like
>> installing fire extinguishers and first aid kits), but we don't know
>> what Noisebridge's consensus will be on how to handle project-based
>> safety issues, which may involve substantive disagreements among members
>> about how to evaluate and mitigate risks.
>>
>> It seems like we have already run into an example of this issue, so I
>> hope that people will be willing on Tuesday to try to approach a
>> consensus about the "how to handle project-oriented safety concerns in
>> general" problem, not just about DIYBio.
>>
>> --
>> Seth David Schoen <schoen at loyalty.org> | Wol dir, werlt, daz du bist
>>     http://www.loyalty.org/~schoen/   | also freudenriche!
>>     http://vitanuova.loyalty.org/     |           -- Carmina Burana
>>
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