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• Visionary French view of nanotechnology online

  Now we can all explore a French version of the Powers of Ten, produced as part of a nanoechnology exhibit by the Cité des Sciences et de l’Industrie museum in Paris, brought to our attention by Foresight Senior Associate Gina Miller. Topics covered include Read more
  Posted Monday, May 21, 2007 4:38 PM from Nanodot: Nanotechnology News and Discussion / 0 Comments

  Tags: Public participation, Public Involvement, NanoEducation, Nanotechnology, Nanotech, Nano, Future Medicine, European Nanotechnology

• Participatory nanotechnology ethics: Join right in

  Nanowerk reports on a new nanotechnology ethics database at IIT: NanoEthicsBank. Perhaps the most interesting aspect is their experiment with participatory tagging: In conjunction with the fixed subject terms used in the NanoEthicsBank, we are also developing Read more
  Posted Tuesday, May 15, 2007 7:35 PM from Nanodot: Nanotechnology News and Discussion / 0 Comments

  Tags: Nanotechnology Politics, Public participation, Ethics, Public Involvement, NanoEducation, Nanotech reports & publications, Nanotechnology, Nanotech, Nano

• Three days of nanotechnology bootcamp

  If you’re interested in dipping your toe into academic nanotechnology but don’t have time to go back to school, consider the ASME Nano Training Bootcamp this September. It’s mostly top-down, but includes some bottom-up nanotech such as self-assembly Read more
  Posted Monday, May 14, 2007 8:56 PM from Nanodot: Nanotechnology News and Discussion / 0 Comments

  Tags: NanoEducation, Nanotechnology, Nanotech, Nano

• 7th graders to clean ocean with nanotechnology

  The winners of this year’s Lego engineering contest were inspired by nanotechnology concepts to design a robot to clean plastic from the ocean: For the competition, the students had to prepare a presentation on this year’s theme — nanotechnology, Read more
  Posted Thursday, April 26, 2007 7:19 PM from Nanodot: Nanotechnology News and Discussion / 0 Comments

  Tags: Environment, Health, and Safety, Public participation, Public Involvement, NanoEducation, Robotics/AI, Nanotechnology, Biosphere, Nanotech, Nano, Foresight Kudos

• Visualizing nanotechnology in context

  It’s hard for us macroscale beings to get a gut feel for the extreme size differences between, say, ourselves and nanoscale objects. The old “Powers of Ten” illustrations helped, but now there’s a new online version from Nikon called Read more
  Posted Monday, April 02, 2007 6:05 PM from Nanodot: Nanotechnology News and Discussion / 0 Comments

  Tags: NanoEducation, Nanotechnology, Nanotech, Nano

• The nanotechnology book for your coffee table

  Finally, some decent swag for us here at Nanodot: We have received a review copy of the Italian book Blow-up: Images from the Nanoworld mentioned here earlier. It lives up to its advertising, being a beautiful collection of nanoscale (and microscale) images Read more
  Posted Wednesday, March 21, 2007 7:23 PM from Nanodot: Nanotechnology News and Discussion / 0 Comments

  Tags: Opinion, NanoEducation, Nanotechnology, Nanotech, Nano

• Singapore exports nanotechnology learning tools

  Now, kids around the world can benefit from the nanoeducational prowess of Singapore. (Or at least rich kids can.) The ever-vigilant website Nanowerk brings word of three Nano-Bio educational kits available for ordering from Singapore. They’re perhaps Read more
  Posted Monday, March 12, 2007 6:50 PM from Nanodot: Nanotechnology News and Discussion / 0 Comments

  Tags: Bionanotechnology, Nanobiotechnology, Public participation, Public Involvement, NanoEducation, Asia Nanotechnology, Nanotechnology, Government programs, Nanotech, Nano

• Your chance to influence nanotechnology policy

  If you’re a Foresight member, you’re already helping improve nanotechnology policy, but here’s another way: apply to participate in the upcoming online course Debating Science and The Nanotechnology Debate. In the syllabus (pdf), the actual Read more
  Posted Friday, February 23, 2007 5:26 PM from Nanodot: Nanotechnology News and Discussion / 0 Comments

  Tags: Nanotechnology Politics, Public participation, Ethics, Opinion, Public Involvement, NanoEducation, Nanotechnology, Nanotech, Nano

• Studying the future of nanotechnology

  It’s a challenge to study something that hasn’t happened yet, but they’re taking a shot at it over at the Center for Nanotechnology in Society at Arizona State University, as part of a lecture series titled Studying the Future of Nanotechnology: Read more
  Posted Friday, February 02, 2007 5:30 PM from Nanodot: Nanotechnology News and Discussion / 0 Comments

  Tags: Bionanotechnology, Nanobiotechnology, NanoEducation, Nanotechnology, Nanotech, Nano, Speculative Fiction

• French citizen panel: Nanotechnology is too technical

  EurActiv.com reports on a citizens’ panel on nanotechnology held by the Ile de France region: Citizens find nanotechs ‘elitist’ A citizens’ conference on nanotechnologies in France found public information on nanosciences difficult Read more
  Posted Wednesday, January 31, 2007 4:23 PM from Nanodot: Nanotechnology News and Discussion / 0 Comments

  Tags: Nanotechnology Politics, Public participation, Ethics, Public Involvement, NanoEducation, Nanotechnology, Humor, Nanotech, Nano, European Nanotechnology