by Andrew Maynard | May 8, 2011 | Emerging Technology, Optogenetics, Technology Innovation
Tomorrow, I will be speaking at the Marshal M. Weinberg Seminar on Optogenetic Manipulation of the Brain at the University of Michigan – not a subject I must admit that I am that familiar with. Fortunately, there are other speakers who will be doing much of the...
by Andrew Maynard | May 2, 2011 | Peer review
Exploring new ideas, messing around with disciplinary boundaries, making unusual and innovative connections – surely that’s what cutting edge research is supposed to be about these days? Certainly it’s something many researchers aspire to – at...
by Andrew Maynard | Apr 27, 2011 | Communication
Yesterday I have the rather odd experience of opening the media140 meeting on the impact of social technologies on science communication in Brisbane Australia – from my basement in Michigan, USA. Skyping into the meeting, it was hard to tell whether I was...
by Andrew Maynard | Apr 16, 2011 | Emerging Technology, Oversight, Regulation
Cross-posted from The Risk Science Blog: Back in 2007 the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) issued a set of “Principles for Nanotechnology Environmental, Health and Safety Oversight” (no longer available on the OSTP website it...
by Andrew Maynard | Apr 9, 2011 | Communication
In 1987 I got my Bachelor of Science in physics, Prozac was launched in the US, and James Gleick published Chaos. I don’t think the middle one has any bearing on the other two. But the first and last are tentatively linked because, despite being completely...
