biofutures: owning body parts & information

From New World Notes:

Matt Bidulph is assessing Second Life for Nature Magazine, in deliciously empirical ways. Physical microbiology is transformed into virtual macrobiology as Matt renders individual cells in Second Life. The original data is taken from four-nanometer scans of the real cells … Biddulph is working with Nature to evaluate Second Life as a useful platform for scientists.

You can see the video of his work here. There’s an extended entry here. Second Life is here.

Last week the USC Free Culture Club hosted a panel on “Intellectual Property Rights and the Modern University,” making reference to Boyle’s formulation of the “knowledge ecology.”

The FCC announcement is here. An mp3 recording of the panel is available here.