The day my father used his glasses as an iPhone stand, so his grandson could show me a YouTube clip – sharing his vision so the young one could see.
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From my diary, May 1, 2013: “The 1st of May parade, the march, the working-class 1st of May, etc., etc. I have worked too much, I still work nonstop – the studio is full. The month of May is the month of Mihai and me, we are both born in this month, I at its […]
Shells: the power of oceanic memories. The carcasses of animals. The origins of plants. A beehive. An axe. Needle and string. Toward a new museology.
Today we celebrate the 2450th birthday of Lao Tzu, author of the Tao Te Ching. In 2016 the book inspired the use of CRISPR (Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats) to genetically modify the “plastic-munching microbe,” Ideonella sakaiensis, isolating enzymes responsible for dissolving polyethylene terephthalate (PET). Now we depend on these scientifically engineered creatures to […]