by Andrew Maynard | Apr 1, 2011 | Communication, Emerging Technology, Recommended, Technology Innovation
I’ve occasionally been accused of thinking big when it comes to Risk Science. So I was rather chuffed to hear former Executive Director of Google.org Larry Brilliant out-big me on every point as he delivered the 10th Peter M. Wege lecture here at the University...
by Andrew Maynard | Mar 18, 2011 | Communication
A couple of days ago I posted a blog that noted the absence of direct information on the Fukushima nuclear crisis coming out of US Schools of Public Health. In it, I wrote As events at the Fukushima power plant unfolded, I assumed – rather naively as it turns out –...
by Andrew Maynard | Mar 16, 2011 | Public Health, Risk
This past few days I’ve been up to my eyeballs in tracking and responding to the developing crisis in Japan, and have not had much time to think about emerging technologies or this blog. Much of my time has been spent on brushing up on my health physics (from...
by Andrew Maynard | Mar 10, 2011 | Emerging Technology, Nanotechnology, Oversight, Policy, Technology Innovation
As anyone who has followed my work over the past few years will know, I have a deep interest in the potential benefits and risks associated with emerging technologies, and in particular whether we can swing the balance towards benefits by thinking more innovatively...
by Andrew Maynard | Mar 4, 2011 | Emerging Technology, Nanotechnology, Technology Innovation
Back in December 2009, I rode the Acela Express up to New York from Washington DC for the day to record one of a series of nanotechnology podcasts for the ASME – the American Society of Mechanical Engineers. The podcast was to be part of a new educational...
