Here’s a slide that anyone who has seen one of my presentations recently will be familiar with – illustrating the shift we are undergoing from using things that we find to producing the things that we need, something beautifully illustrated by the recent slough of news items about the ‘invention” of artificial arteries using nanotechnology. Professor George Hamilton from the …
Nanotechnology and Sustainability Podcast
A number of people asked about the possibility of re-recording the podcast of the talk I gave at Green Futures at the weekend as the quality is a bit patchy. It’s something I have been meaning to do for some time, as I can talk several orders of magnitude faster than I can type. I should also point out that this …
Communicating Nanotechnologies to the Green Technology Forum
Explaining the relevance of nanotechnology to the green community which is my latest attempt at public engagement. My talk (and others, I’m on first) is available as a podcast here. It’s surprisingly difficult to talk clearly to non technical and non business audiences but I gave it my best shot and almost managed to stay within my allotted ten …
Good Riddance to Bad Science
I enjoyed Rick Weiss’”Good Riddance” piece directed at the outgoing US administration, and it probably echoes the views of many US based researchers. Good riddance to the lies, the deception, the White House-edited pseudoscience reports. Good riddance to the stacked science advisory committees, the faux peer-review of proposed regulations, the junkyard claims of “junk science.” Good riddance to the scientist …
Where does technology end and fashion begin?
In one of the more intriguing conference programs Cientifica has been involved with, we have joined forces with the London College of Fashion (LCF) on a conference that discusses nanotechnology’s impact on the fashion industry: Micro and Nanotechnologies for Fashion and Textiles to be held at LCF on January 24th. What does nanotechnology have to do with fashion, you ask. …