“The ideal breasts are the ones that are round, laid high on the chest wall, large and firm. If the breasts are not meeting such criteria, this makes not only the women feeling down but her social value also gets tarnished since she feels ‘not so happening’ in any public places such as parties or some sort of get-together. Breasts, …
Toxic Food Nano Poison and a Slow Lingering Death for the Human Race?
A scientist injecting fruit with toxic nanoparticles before feeding it to your children to make lots of money? Friends of the Earth in Australia, who have been running a long anti nanotech campaign have just released a new report prompting sensationalist and confused headlines headlines like this – “Is nanotechnology a toxic food nano poison in Australia?“As always, it’s a …
The Tata Nano
I’m in Pune, India this week enjoying subjee in the sun while lecturing on entrepreneurship with a team put together by the British Council. Coincidentally, Tata Motors chose today to unveil their new car, and the world’s cheapest, the Tata Nano which although not containing much nanotechnology provides a metaphor of sorts for what we are attempting to do in …
The State of British Nanotech
I popped along to the UK Nanoforum conference last week and what I found wasn’t a particularly pretty sight, especially in comparison with the previous week’s Nanosolutions/ 4th Nanotech Hesse Forum the week before. The main difference between the two events was in the number of people actually doing things, rather than talking about them or supporting them. While the …
UK Nanotech Forecast To Grow – Rather Slowly
Boffins, but maybe fewer investors than in the past, will be converging on London next week for the UK Nanoforum although the government claim that “The UK nanotechnology industry is one of the fastest growing and most innovative in the world, and is forecast to grow by 44 per cent over the next 12 to 15 years.”44% in 12 years? Surely they can’t mean …
UK Government Drives Nanotech Companies To France
At last, the UK government has given a reason for the various Nanotech Trade/Industry associations to exist with its rather bizarre plans to penalise enterprise. The increase in Capital Gains Tax to 18% will particularly affect emerging technology business, in contrast to the previous rules which rewarded entrepreneurs for the long term development of businesses via a 10% CGT rate …
Survey Finds The Pesky Public Are As Dumb As Last Year
Surveys of public attitudes to nanotechnology are always surprising. Sometimes surprising that they are performed at all given the results they produce. The latest study finds that “only 6 percent of Americans — or fewer than one in 16 — say they have “heard a lot” about nanotechnology, as compared with 10 percent in 2006,” which seems to indicate some …
A Big Hand For Eastern Europe
The European Commission took a look at at its budgets last week and was so overcome with joy that it felt moved to issue a press release trumpeting that the “European Commission is world’s largest public investor in nanotechnology.” I think it is a great idea that the EU should be awash with nanotech research funding, but I’m not entirely …
Waste Water
Water and development seems to be a popular topic for discussion, but about as popular as the Ebola virus when it comes to taking any action. Richard Jones highlighted yet another talking shop over at Soft Machines, and one that look depressingly familiar. The most bizarre water project I came across was a Middle Eastern country which was looking for …
Turning Sand Into Semiconductors
The recent brief hiatus was caused by a lot of running around n eastern Europe and Middle Eastern desert kingdoms, many of which want to do things that do not involve oil!