September 2010

Realizing dreams of carbon nanotubes

by Nanocomp September 28, 2010

A guest blog by John Dorr, Vice President of Business Development Nanocomp Technologies Inc. Despite all the fuss over nanotechnology, it’s surprisingly difficult to get a clear sense of how the technology is contributing to new products.  So when the company Nanocomp Technologies Inc. approached me with an idea of writing a guest blog about [...]

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Lost in the Maize

by Andrew Maynard September 24, 2010

This week my life has been dominated by writing a new review of nanotoxicology.  Not that the world needs another review – far from it, as there are a number of excellent ones out there (I’ve even contributed to some).  But in a moment of abject weakness, I agreed to help a good colleague out [...]

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Lost in the Maize

by Andrew Maynard September 17, 2010

This week I exchanged the maze of academia for an entirely different maze – I spent most of the week at the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting of the New Champions in Tianjin, China.

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Prepare and Inspire: The President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology’s take on STEM education

by Andrew Maynard September 16, 2010

The President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology – PCAST – has just released a new report on US K-12 education in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (the STEM subjects).  The report provides, in the words of the President’s Science Advisor John Holdren, “a strategy for improving K-12 STEM education that responds to the [...]

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Ten weeks to save the world: Nature does the Singularity University

by Andrew Maynard September 15, 2010

You’ve heard the rumors and read the hype – but what really goes on at the Singularity University, based at the NASA Ames campus in Silicon Valley?  Nature’s Nicola Jones recently went along to take a look, and her report has just been posted – it’s well worth reading. The Singularity University was co-founded in [...]

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Could precisely engineered nanoparticles provide a novel geoengineering tool?

by Andrew Maynard September 13, 2010

This is an extremely quick and dirty blog post, as I really need to be somewhere else.  But while traveling to the World Economic Forum meeting in China today, I came across a new paper that piques my interest. The paper is by David Keith at the University of Calgary (published in the Proceedings of [...]

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Lost in the Maize

by Andrew Maynard September 11, 2010

Well I guess it had to happen one day – after hanging out in QUACs (QUasi Academic Concerns) for more years than I care to remember, I am finally a bona fide academic!  Last week I shed my visiting professor status at the University of Michigan and took up the mantles of Professor of Environmental [...]

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What do people think about synthetic biology?

by Andrew Maynard September 9, 2010

The fifth Hart survey of what American adults think about emerging technologies like nanotechnology and synthetic biology was released today by my former colleagues at the Woodrow Wilson Center – the first since I left the group earlier this year. Each summer for the past five years, the Wilson Center has commissioned Hart Research Associates [...]

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