My thoughts, memories, and uptakes of the days' events. After hearing definitions of Synthetic Biology and Conservation Biology yesterday, the second day of the conference explored how these two communities could help each other and work together to solve some…
One comment I picked up on today (summary here) during the #futureofnature conference was that the most difficult word to define in the English language is nature. What is nature? Have we integrated and/or meddled with nature to such an extent…
I’m sitting in one of the gardens in Clare College, part of the history university of Cambridge, surrounded by beautiful trees, flowers, and even the occasional bumble bee hovers past me. I’ve come here for a conference titled “How will…
For our first assignment we were asked to do a content analysis of the broadcast media to see how they reported on science. It was pitched as a very open-ended piece of work, and we were required to decide our…