Sexy Yeast Reproduces More Efficiently Than Yeast Lacking Sex: Quote: "A New Zealand team led by Matthew Goddard, from the University of Auckland, conducted a study with two strains of yeast, only one of which was able to reproduce sexually. Yeast cells are normally asexual. But when stressed they undergo a process that produces four spores equivalent to the male and female gametes involved in sexual reproduction." Link
monochrom is an art-technology-philosophy group having its seat in Vienna and Zeta Draconis. monochrom is an unpeculiar mixture of proto-aesthetic fringe work, pop attitude, subcultural science, context hacking and political activism. Our mission is conducted everywhere, but first and foremost in culture-archeological digs into the seats (and pockets) of ideology and entertainment. monochrom has existed in this (and almost every other) form since 1993. [more]