Introducing PlayDNA!
A project in Seattle, WA by MORGAN GOULDING000days
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The World's first MECHANICALLY REALISTIC (bendy, twisty, sturdy) DNA structure modeling kit.
Backers: 36
Average Pledge Per Backer: $146
Funded: $5,242 of $2,500
Dates: Jan 12th -> Feb 4th (23 days)
Project By: MORGAN GOULDING
Backers: 36
Average Pledge Per Backer: $146
Funded: $5,242 of $2,500
Dates: Jan 12th -> Feb 4th (23 days)
Project By: MORGAN GOULDING
$5,242
current pledge level
Last Updated: February 4 @ 21:09 -0500 GMT
209%
of goal
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Latest News
relative SMALLNESS 
February 4th - via: kickstarter.com
I have been discussing the shapes of DNA - emphasizing the plurality of shapes: the last Update illustrated how the double helix can come unglued, and how in some cases, each strand may glue itself into a new double helix. Weird. What kind of object... (Read More)
MORE DNA
February 2nd - via: kickstarter.com
Following up quickly on the preceding Update, just because that Update contained very little useful information... (The DNA sequence scroll hints at how very long a chromosome is (that wasn't even half of carp chromosome #8!)... and it reveals that... (Read More)
A LITTLE MORE DNA...
February 2nd - via: kickstarter.com
If you were able to stomach only a glance at Chromosome#8 from the common carp, check out the screen recording I just made of rapidly scrolling through the first 2,171,140 bases of one strand. Here! (Just started uploading, should be viewable around... (Read More)
¿STUN NUTS? (PALINDROMES Part Two)
February 1st - via: kickstarter.com
Now we're going to see how palindromic DNA sequences (which are very useful, and hence quite common in nature) can be PROBLEMATIC, by tending to JUMP INTO AN ALTERNATIVE SHAPE. First, let's look at a simple palindrome modeled with PlayDNA! We'll... (Read More)
Postscript: Short Question; Branching String of Answers.
January 29th - via: kickstarter.com
PS. (See the immediately preceding Update) - One student asks: About that more complicated NON-palindromic mirror-image sequence... the one after GAG (and it was so complicated it almost made ME gag!) ... was that a natural DNA sequence? Did Dr.... (Read More)
¿STUN NUTS? (Part One)
January 27th - via: kickstarter.com
Why do palindromic DNA sequences stun nuts? That’s just a palindromish way of saying that such sequences can paralyze reproduction. How they do this is well understood, and simple to model with PlayDNA! It sounds like a bad thing, and it is.... (Read More)
Teaching & Learning Resources (written & illustrated)
January 25th - via: kickstarter.com
LESSONS, PROMPTS, QUESTIONS (with and without answers) are in development for posting on teachDNA.NET. Principally these are intended as gifts to school teachers and students, but anyone who wants to explore DNA puzzles may enjoy them. For example:... (Read More)
GOING TO MARKET...
January 24th - via: kickstarter.com
Exciting news today! Signing an exclusive* educational distribution agreement with the World's biggest mail-order supplier of science education materials! (This has been a long time in the works.) And on the geeky puzzle side, just met with Mara at... (Read More)
Thinking Globally, Advertising Locally
January 22nd - via: kickstarter.com
I'm meeting with the Purchaser at the local Geeky Cafe on Wednesday - exciting! Also I think I'll tag the local techie hangouts with some of these... (genetics jokes, do they look OK to y'all?) Oh, I crack myself up. (Read More)
First Week End Update. Production underway!!
January 19th - via: kickstarter.com
Just got word that the Sea-Lect plant is cranking out new parts for TeachDNA. In a few hours I will pay for them, and drive my little wagon out to Everett to bring them home for finishing and packaging. Parts to make ten thousand DNA nucleotides, and... (Read More)
NANO PUZZLE
January 18th - via: kickstarter.com
I showed this off at a boardgame developers playtesting event last nite - got some love! I was coloring with crayons on this box... Please ignore the slime trails (hot-glue) and the brown corrugated cardboard. It's a prototype retail package for... (Read More)
I thought nucleic acids was boring...
January 15th - via: kickstarter.com
...until I found out about pseudoknots. OK, so these strings have segments that can pair up with segments of other strings... and make all kinds of funny shapes! I looked up the sequence of an RNA that gets handled and trafficked very interestingly... (Read More)
Update#2. Short Film added to Front Page
January 14th - via: kickstarter.com
Come back and see the short film! It's not a talkie, it's a silent movie with piano music. (Read More)
PUSHING THE LIMITS OF PLAYING WITH DNA
January 13th - via: kickstarter.com
TO THANK YOU ALL FOR LOOKING...I GIVE YOU A FREE CIRCUS SHOW!!! SCIENCE CIRCUS - from the dark muddy clammy jungles of Pdx!!! (How do you even pronounce that??) (Read More)
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