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 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...
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 | Feb 23, 2011 | Communication, Emerging Technology
How would you illustrate the “Seven Deadly Sins of Techno-Complacency” (see below)? On March 8, I’m giving a combined Second Live/Real Life talk on emerging technologies, inspired by the Seven Deadly Sins. This will be a rather tongue in cheek...
by Andrew Maynard | Jan 29, 2011 | Communication
This is not a science and technology post – which is a bit odd for a science and technology blog. But I wanted to introduce five people who together shake up the whole idea of the World Economic Forum meeting in Davos as being an elitist and increasingly...
