by Andrew Maynard | Sep 6, 2011 | Emerging Technology, Nanotechnology, Policy, Regulation
Cross-posted from The Risk Science Blog: In a recent letter to the journal Nature (Nature 476; 399), Hermann Stamm of the European Commission Joint Research Centre Institute for Health and Consumer Protection (JRC-IHCP) defended the need to define engineered...
by Andrew Maynard | Sep 5, 2011 | Civic Science, Education, Engagement, Peer review, Society
This morning I sat down with my 14 year old son and asked him what area of science caught his interest especially. He answered “the future of space exploration”. We carried out a search on the Web of Science for “future + space + exploration”,...
by Andrew Maynard | Aug 29, 2011 | Communication, Society
Following on from my post a couple of days ago on teens and social media, I wanted to post this highly eloquent response to some of Susan Greenfield’s remarks about social media and society. It’s from Francisco of the YouTube collab channel Fellowship of...
by Andrew Maynard | Aug 24, 2011 | Education, Engagement, Society
Is social media messing up today’s teens? Adults, it seems, love to pontificate on the benefits and ills of emerging internet-based communication platforms on young people. But how often do they bother to listen to the teenagers they claim to be concerned...
by Andrew Maynard | Aug 20, 2011 | Education
In 2000, I moved to the US with my wife and two children to take up a research job here – becoming part of the migration of science, technology and engineering expertise out of the UK. Eleven years on, my kids want to go back to the UK to university. But the...
