O'Shaughnessy Fellow Jan Jedryszek has cofounded Biotic, a public-benefit nonprofit working to ensure that all people and the planet benefit from world‑leading biotechnologies.
Biotic launches alongside SpudCell, a cell built from scratch out of non-living chemicals that can grow, copy its DNA, and divide. SpudCell was created by fellow Biotic cofounder Kate Adamala and her team at the University of Minnesota. The breakthrough was featured by The New York Times this week.
Read more at biotic.org.
Sunday, 28 June
Two thoughts from David Cronenberg
“Technology is us. There is no separation. It’s a pure expression of human creative will. It doesn’t exist anywhere else in the universe. I’m rather sure of that.”
“Everybody’s a mad scientist, and life is their lab.”
Monday, 29 June
Two thoughts from Michael Crichton
“If you don’t know history, then you don’t know anything. You are a leaf that doesn’t know it is part of a tree.”
“Men under stress are fools, and fool themselves.”
Tuesday, 30 June
Two thoughts from Michael Connelly
“What is jealousy but a reflection of your own failures?”
“It’s only a wonderful world if you can make it that way. There are no street signs pointing to Paradise Road.”
Wednesday, 1 July
Two thoughts from Leo Tolstoy
“Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.”
“The only thing that we know is that we know nothing — and that is the highest flight of human wisdom.”
Thursday, 2 July
Two thoughts from Jim Morrison
“A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself.”
“Keep your eyes on the road, your hands upon the wheel.”
Friday, 3 July
Two thoughts from Carrie Jones
“The secret of happiness is freedom, the secret of freedom is courage.”
“It’s hard to save the world when you can’t save yourself.”
Saturday, 4 July
Two thoughts from Patrick Henry
“Give me liberty, or give me death!”
“The liberties of a people never were, nor ever will be, secure when the transactions of their rulers may be concealed from them.”
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