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LindaTischler

  1. Revealed at last: the true reason for JPMorgan's loss. Call it the $2B tick bite. nyti.ms/J6u4iz
  2. It's taken 7 years bit.ly/r6VhcV but I'm vindicated in my hate for open plan offices: 10% drop in performance nyti.ms/KRtIAc
  3. Funny: Coke went public in 1919 for $40 (in $15M IPO. world's largest).Went to $19 in 1920. One share worth $5M today. bit.ly/9xLlfr
  4. Buyer Beware! @teleflora is offering nice Mother's Day promotions, but be careful of their bait and switch policies at checkout.
  5. Buyer Beware! @teleflora is offering nice Mother's Day promotions, but their bait and switch policies at checkout deserve special scrutiny.
  6. Didn't make it to Milan this year? No prob. For a quick overview & restaurant recs for next year, check out @bdebytes: bit.ly/KNIpFo
  7. Ventner: what I hope for given population increase -DNA that can generate food, H2O, and energy. #MediaLabIO
  8. Antonelli: Man-made genome meets definition of design: intention and form - not necessarily beauty. #MediaLabIO
  9. Paola Antonelli: I could totally imagine a Venter genome in MOMA's collection. #MediaLabIO
  10. Ventner: thing that will make huge diff is getting cost, accuracy down. Soon! At 1st, took 9 mos, $100k. Now, 2 hrs, few $k. #MediaLabIO
  11. Ventner: our first attempt to create synthetic genome didn't work. 1 letter out of 1.1 M wrong. Diff btwn life & not. #MediaLabIO
  12. Craig Venter: design principle for genomics: Life is a DNA software system. #MediaLabIO
  13. @nerioxman New show at Pompidou center: Materials of the Not Yet: Imaginary Beings. A landmark in 3d printing. #MediaLabIO
  14. Herr: one of my motivations for this research? I want to dance really well - even tho I didn't before amputation. #MediaLabIO
  15. @hughherr: biggest problem in attaching prosthesis to body? It hurts! #MediaLabIO
  16. Hugh Herr "on being bionic": nature doesn't have disciplinary silos. Challenge is to mimic same #MediaLabIO
  17. Jacobson: we need a FAB shop for synthetic biology to get out of the assemble-transistors-by-hand era. #medialabio
  18. Joseph Jacobson: Complexity of Biology in our bodies 8 orders of magnitude more complex than anything we can engineer #MediaLabIO