by Guest | Feb 12, 2010 | Communication, Engagement, Guest Post
A guest blog by Gary Kass, Principal Specialist in Strategic Futures at Natural England The London-based Science Media Centre (SMC) describes itself as “an independent venture working to promote the voices, stories and views of the scientific community to the national...
by Andrew Maynard | Feb 12, 2010 | Communication, Nanotechnology
Well I guess I set myself up good and proper – I should have realized that in asking people for their questions on nanotechnology safety last week, they would actually want answers! Having failed miserably to compile a catalog of websites that provide clear and...
by Andrew Maynard | Feb 12, 2010 | Nanotechnology
Last Friday I posted 24 questions on nanotechnology safety provided by folks on Twitter and FaceBook, in a naive attempt to see if people could find matching answers on the web. Predictably perhaps, there weren’t too many responses. This wasn’t too...
by Andrew Maynard | Jan 18, 2010 | Communication, Emerging Technology, Nanotechnology, Recommended
To accompany the review just posted of Felice Frankel and George Whitesides’ book “No Small Matter: Science on the Nanoscale” the authors kindly allowed me to post this series of excerpts. What I wanted to capture here was the synergy between the...
by Andrew Maynard | Jan 18, 2010 | Communication, Emerging Technology, Nanotechnology
How do you write a book about something few people have heard off, and less seem interested in? The answer, it seems, is to write about something else. Felice Frankel and George Whitesides have clearly taken this lesson to heart. Judged by the cover alone, their new...
