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Davos 2010 – first impressions

by Andrew Maynard January 27, 2010

Having just got back to the hotel at some unseemly hour (at least according to my body clock) from the first full day of meetings at the World Economic Forum meeting in Davos, I’m trying my best to be disciplined and write some of my impressions up.  As it’s late, I’ll be brief:

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No Small Matter – A connoisseur’s guide to delicate work

by Andrew Maynard January 18, 2010

How do you write a book about something few people have heard off, and less seem interested in?  The answer, it seems, is to write about something else. Felice Frankel and George Whitesides have clearly taken this lesson to heart. Judged by the cover alone, their new book “No Small Matter:  Science at the Nanoscale” [...]

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Scientists and social media – This is not a case study

by Ruth Seeley January 4, 2010

By Ruth Seeley, No Spin PR. A little over a year ago, Ruth Seeley – a freelance communications consultant – rather bravely approached me with a proposition:  She would help me develop a social media strategy for 2020 Science, if I would let her write the experience up as a case study.  Was she mad?  [...]

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From pneumatic toilet lids to man-spas – reflections from the road

by Andrew Maynard September 28, 2009

Between September 22 and September 27 2009, I wrote a series of blogs describing what promised to be a particularly arduous trip to a workshop just outside Grand Junction in Colorado.  I’d hoped to give a sense how tough it can be sometimes traveling to participate in meetings and give invited talks.  As it turned [...]

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Talking Nano

by Andrew Maynard October 16, 2008

Whoever would have thought a science juggling act could be so much fun?  Or so informative?  Yet a couple of weeks back I found myself grinning like a ten year-old as I sat reviewing a new set of nanotech DVDs.  The culprit: “The Amazing Nano Brothers Juggling Show;” one of the highlights of Talking Nano-a [...]

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