• IOP comments on Climategate

    Updated: 2010-02-28 13:27:53
    The UK-based Institute of Physics (IOP) publishes, among other things, the journal Nanotechnology, one of the leading journals in the field, and has had special issues with papers from Foresight conferences gaoing back to the 90s. It was thus somewhat surprising, yet gratifying, to find them submitting quite a strongly-worded critique of practices in climatology that [...]

  • What Should Nanotech Students Study?

    Updated: 2010-02-26 14:50:48
    Students often ask me, "I want to study nanotechnology. What should I study? And where?" Eric Drexler has written an excellent answer to this question. A partial summary of his several pages of good advice: Start with the fundamentals. Remember...

  • What Should Nanotech Students Study?

    Updated: 2010-02-26 14:50:48
    Students often ask me, "I want to study nanotechnology. What should I study? And where?" Eric Drexler has written an excellent answer to this question. A partial summary of his several pages of good advice: Start with the fundamentals. Remember...

  • How to study for a career in nanotechnology

    Updated: 2010-02-24 00:02:19
    Students often ask me for advice on how to study for a career in nanotechnology, and as you might imagine, providing a good answer is challenging. “Nanotechnology” refers to a notoriously broad range of areas of science and technology, and progress during a student’s career will open new areas, and some are yet to be [...]

  • Blog Comment Spam and Turing tests

    Updated: 2010-02-22 16:00:37
    Computerized text generation may be getting close to passing the Turing test. (Turing, an early computer scientist, suggested that if a person couldn't tell whether they were text-chatting with a human or a computer, the computer must be intelligent.) In...

  • Blog Comment Spam and Turing tests

    Updated: 2010-02-22 16:00:37
    Computerized text generation may be getting close to passing the Turing test. (Turing, an early computer scientist, suggested that if a person couldn't tell whether they were text-chatting with a human or a computer, the computer must be intelligent.) In...

  • Nanofactory Implications Interview

    Updated: 2010-02-20 08:58:47
    Nanofactories: How, and why, might they change the world? I explain a few of the reasons in an interview published on the New Haven Independent's web site: "Nanofactories: Brave, or Grave New World?" In the interview, I point out that...

  • Nanofactory Implications Interview

    Updated: 2010-02-20 08:58:47
    Nanofactories: How, and why, might they change the world? I explain a few of the reasons in an interview published on the New Haven Independent's web site: "Nanofactories: Brave, or Grave New World?" In the interview, I point out that...

  • Stackless brain

    Updated: 2010-02-18 07:12:34
    Why we should suspect that the brain has a limited ability to recurse, but prefers to daisy-chain instead: The house the malt the rat the cat the dog the cow with the crumpled horn the maiden all forlorn the man all tattered and torn the priest all shaven and shorn the cock that crowed in the [...]

  • Design Validation Protocol and Acceptance Criteria for Chromatographic Methods to meet ICH requirements

    Updated: 2010-02-18 00:00:00
    Conference: 17 Mar 2010, United States. Organized by ComplianceOnline.

  • Appropriate and Lawful Off-Label Dissemination

    Updated: 2010-02-18 00:00:00
    Conference: 23 Feb 2010, Palo alto, California, United States. Organized by ComplianceOnline.

  • The Role of Investigative Toxicology and Safety Biomarkers in Drug Safety Evaluations

    Updated: 2010-02-18 00:00:00
    Conference: 4 Mar 2010, United States. Organized by ComplianceOnline.

  • Out-of-Specification Investigations – Beyond the laboratory

    Updated: 2010-02-18 00:00:00
    Conference: 18 Mar 2010, United States. Organized by ComplianceOnline.

  • Validating Radiation Sterilization for medical device industries

    Updated: 2010-02-18 00:00:00
    Conference: 9 Mar 2010, Online Webinar, DE, United States. Organized by GlobalCompliancePanel.

  • Merkle wins Hamming Medal with Diffie, Hellman

    Updated: 2010-02-16 23:41:57
    Foresight Institute Feynman Prize winner Dr. Ralph Merkle, perhaps better known to Nanodot readers for his nanotech work, has just won the IEEE’s Hamming Medal along with Martin Hellman and Whitfield Diffie: Thirty-five years ago, Martin Hellman, Whitfield Diffie and Ralph Merkle developed an easy method for sending secure messages over insecure channels. With the advent [...]

  • FDA Inspections: What to Expect and How to Prepare

    Updated: 2010-02-16 00:00:00
    Conference: 3 Mar 2010, Online, DE, United States. Organized by GlobalCompliancePanel.

  • The 510(k) Submission: Requirements, Contents, and Options

    Updated: 2010-02-16 00:00:00
    Conference: 4 Mar 2010, Online, DE, United States. Organized by GlobalCompliancePanel.

  • Business, Project and Compliance Risk

    Updated: 2010-02-16 00:00:00
    Conference: 2 Mar 2010, Online, DE, United States. Organized by GlobalCompliancePanel.

  • FDA Compliant HPLC Qualification and Performance Testing

    Updated: 2010-02-16 00:00:00
    Conference: 4 Mar 2010, Online, DE, United States. Organized by GlobalCompliancePanel.

  • 21 CFR Part 11: How to Successfully Prepare for and Host an FDA Inspection

    Updated: 2010-02-16 00:00:00
    Conference: 4 Mar 2010, Online, DE, United States. Organized by GlobalCompliancePanel.

  • Nano Valentine!

    Updated: 2010-02-14 11:46:58
    It’s pure palladium, 8 nm wide, made at the University of Birmingham’s Nanoscale Physics Research Laboratory. h/t Nanowerk

  • Cell-free biology

    Updated: 2010-02-12 00:09:31
    “Cells” (Courtesy, Robert Hooke) Synthetic biology doesn’t require cells, and in several ways, cells are liabilities. Cells can make engineering difficult. Cell membranes and bacterial walls stand between new genes and the machinery needed to transcribe and translate them. They are barriers to liberating gene products. They contain systems that are complex products of eons of evolutionary [...]

  • SNWG Responds to SAP Report on Nanosilver and Other Nanometal Oxide Pesticide Products

    Updated: 2010-02-10 21:04:20
    In a February 5, 2010, letter to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Office of Pesticide Programs, the Silver Nanotechnology Working Group (SNWG) provides its reactions to the recent Scientific Advisory Panel (SAP) report on nanosilver and other nanometal oxide pesticide products. n its letter, SNWG highlights a number of the statements and recommendations from the SAP report that it considers “highly relevant for the shaping of EPA policy towards nanosilver materials.” NWG notes that nanosilver is not a new material; clarity is needed on EPA concept of nano; real-life conditions are essential for realistic risk assessment; EPA policy must allow for sustainable technology development; and SAP frequently confounded general “nano”-related issues and uncertainties with issues specific to nanosilver.

  • EPA SAP Releases Report on Nanosilver and Other Nanometal Pesticide Products

    Updated: 2010-02-09 22:27:31
    Nanotechnology Lawyer Attorney Bergeson Campbell Law Firm Nanotechnology Law Blog Published By Bergeson Campbell , . P.C Regulatory legal developments involving nanotechnologies nanomaterials About Contact Services Archives Home Federal EPA SAP Releases Report on Nanosilver and Other Nanometal Pesticide Products EPA SAP Releases Report on Nanosilver and Other Nanometal Pesticide Products Posted on February 9, 2010 by Lynn L . Bergeson Email This Print Comments Trackbacks The U.S . Environmental Protection Agency EPA Scientific Advisory Panel SAP has released the minutes of its November 3-5, 2009, meeting regarding evaluation of the hazard and exposure associated with nanosilver and other nanometal pesticide products . In addition to the general observations noted here , more information is available in our February 8, 2010, memorandum First , the SAP final recommendations address nanosilver almost entirely , and little or no mention is made of nanometal pesticide products . rdquo Second , the Panel stated that existing models are not appropriate for use with silver nanomaterials and will not accurately predict nanosilver exposure scenarios . rdquo The Panel stated that it strongly

  • Toxic Chemicals in Consumer Products: More than Just Consumer Exposure

    Updated: 2010-02-08 21:20:53
    Cal Baier-Anderson, Ph.D., is a Health Scientist. An article recently published in the journal Macromolecules reports on the development of a new process that the authors claim can prevent the migration of phthalates from PVC plastic.   This “breakthrough” will undoubtedly be used to argue that industry should be allowed to continue to use a retinue of [...]

  • Exploiting strong, covalent bonds for self assembly of robust nanosystems

    Updated: 2010-02-06 07:37:14
    “Porous, Crystalline, Covalent Organic Frameworks”Côté et al. Atomically precise self-assembly of complex structures can be engineered by providing for multiple binding interactions that Cooperate to stabilize the correct configuration, in a thermodynamic sense, and Do not stabilize any other configuration, in a kinetic sense Roughly speaking, in the correct configuration, the parts fit together to allow all the binding [...]

  • EPA Proposes a Second SNUR for Multi-Walled Carbon Nanotubes

    Updated: 2010-02-05 20:25:12
    Nanotechnology Lawyer Attorney Bergeson Campbell Law Firm Nanotechnology Law Blog Published By Bergeson Campbell , . P.C Regulatory legal developments involving nanotechnologies nanomaterials About Contact Services Archives Home Federal EPA Proposes a Second SNUR for Multi-Walled Carbon Nanotubes EPA Proposes a Second SNUR for Multi-Walled Carbon Nanotubes Posted on February 5, 2010 by Lynn L . Bergeson Email This Print Comments Trackbacks The U.S . Environmental Protection Agency EPA published on February 3, 2010, a proposed significant new use rule SNUR under Section 5(a 2 of the Toxic Substances Control Act TSCA for multi-walled carbon nanotubes . nbsp The proposed rule would require persons who intend to manufacture , import , or process the substance for an activity that is designated as a significant new use by the proposed rule to notify EPA at least 90 days before commencing that activity . nbsp EPA states that the required notification would provide EPA with the opportunity to evaluate the intended use and , if necessary , to prohibit or limit that activity before it occurs . nbsp Comments are due March 5, 2010 The proposed rule provides the following basis for : action

  • Which Consequentialism? Machine Ethics and Moral Divergence

    Updated: 2010-02-05 07:53:57
    Here’s a extended abstract presented at the 2009 Asia-Pacific Conference on Computing and Philosophy by participants in SIAI’s 2009 Visiting Fellows Program that is making the rounds. The point of the paper, which was written by Carl Shulman, Nick Tarleton, and Henrik Jonsson, is that consequentialism as commonly discussed has a number of “free [...]

  • Householder words — and my reply

    Updated: 2010-02-03 00:21:42
    Richard Denison, Ph.D., is a Senior Scientist. Interesting exchange this afternoon between Joe Householder, Executive Director of the Coalition for Chemical Safety, and myself in comments on my last blog post.  See Mr. Householder's comment here, and my reply here.

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