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luciferase bacteria

there are night lights on in friends' rooms. constantly on. a slow, steady, painful trickle of energy leak from each one.

so a buddy and i went down to the lab and cultured everyone a couple plates of luciferase bacteria!

this means they glow in the dark as they metabolize. the bacteria use quorum sensing to activate their little glow enzymes, so when a big enough cluster of them grow emerge... bling!

they aren't that…

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Posted on March 19, 2010 at 10:59pm — 11 Comments

portable light

i have actually had this kicking around in my bookmarks for well on a year.

its been exciting to watch this project and the accompanying website and group grow and mature.

http://portablelight.org/

from the website:

More than 2 billion people live without electricity, most in extreme poverty. The Portable Light Project creates new ways to provide renewable power in…

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Posted on March 19, 2010 at 10:42pm — 4 Comments

Designing Bugs that eat Plastic

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Posted on March 18, 2010 at 3:02am — 4 Comments

fertilizer and peak crises

lets talk agriculture.

fertilizer.

N-K-P

thats nitrogen, potassium, phosphorus

phosphorus is a rock. that means it comes outta the ground. that means it takes forever to replenish. basically a non renewable resource, like oil.

phosphorus prices have already been spiking in the last few years, and it is estimated that around 2020-2030 (hmm sound familiar?)…

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Posted on March 15, 2010 at 11:00am — 14 Comments

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At 2:23am on March 18, 2010, RD said…: Did you drink water today?

At 7:44am on March 15, 2010, Radhika Darbari said…: Hey, I will definately be watching and reading. Thanks for update!

At 5:59pm on March 12, 2010, Radhika Darbari said…: Hey thanks for comment and friend request. I'd love to learn more about biology and world systems so looking forward to reading your blogs :-).