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Juan Leguizamon

ANARCHY IN THE LABORATORY

Real science is happening outside the hallowed halls of high-priced research facilities. Take a look in garages, schools, and hackerspaces and you’ll see things like remote controlled cockroaches, crowdsourced radioactivity monitoring programs, lab equipment made from kitchen appliances, biotech research, homebrew scanning electron microscopes, and other full-fledged scientific endeavors.

In the same way that punk rock broke down barriers that previously kept musicians from selling records and playing shows, punk science provides amateur enthusiasts with the skills and tools to make useful contributions ...

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