Multimedia
Presentations
Managing the Small Stuff – with commentary
A 50,000 foot perspective on nanotechnology. This is something of an experiment, but I put the sequence together because my lectures don’t make a lot of sense when you separate the slides from me talking. I’m still not sure this makes a whole lot of sense, but it was fun compiling it! The movie was put together in Keynote on the Mac from a series of slides that I use, and the soundtrack and commentary added in Garage Band. [also available on Vimeo]
If you want a more surreal experience, try out the version (below) without the commentary!
Managing the Small Stuff – just the graphics and music
Just the slides and the backing track – somewhat surreal! [Also available on Vimeo]
Developing Societally Acceptable Nanotechnologies (2007 Bernstein Symposium Lecture)
How do we realize the benefits by minimizing the potential risks of nanotechnology? (Cal/EPA Seminar, March 8 2007)
Cubes Animation
I’ve been fascinated for some years by how to visualize the relationship between particle number, surface area and volume. This is a sequence of animations created in the symbolic math package Mathematica, and represents a constant volume of material being divided into smaller and smaller units. You can probably tell that, at some point, the desire to demonstrate the principle graphically got lost, and the temptation to play around with the visuals and music took over!
By today’s standards, the animations are very crude. But I am chuffed that I still have the ability to code them starting with basic mathematical transforms – as anyone familiar with Mathematica will tell you, there aren’t too many crutches here!
Cubes #1
Cubes #2
[Also available on Vimeo]
Nanoman
A long story behind these, but the short version is that back in 2006, I was asked to give an after-dinner talk on nanotechnology and occupational health. Concerned over boring the crowd rigid, I asked my son (9 years old at the time) to make a series of stop-frame animation videos to demonstrate three “petite challeges” to working safely with nanomaterials. These are the results – and they far surpass anything I could do!
Nanoman 1 – Unsafe Work Practices
Nanoman 2 – Dust
Nanoman 3 – Measurement
Science communication
A miscellany of attempts to communicate the finer points of science – mainly nanotechnology – to a broad audience
The Great Nano Mento Experiment
Having fun exploring principles of nanotechnology, using Mentos and a bottle of Coke. More information in this blog post. [Also available on Vimeo]
The Twinkie Guide to Nanotechnology
