• DNA search, iPhone chemistry, electronic waste

    Updated: 2010-06-30 15:07:43
    Latest bookmarked science news, including my current Alchemist column on ChemWeb.com: How to build a better DNA search engine – The techniques for indexing Chinese language websites could dramatically improve the speed of bioinformatic searches, according to research by SOSO, the third largest Chinese search engine The chemistry of an iPhone – Steve Jobs responds [...]DNA search, iPhone chemistry, electronic waste is a post from: Sciencebase Science Blog You can also connect with Sciencebase on Facebook and Twitter

  • This week in nanotechnology – June 25, 2010

    Updated: 2010-06-29 22:08:14
    Batteries might gain a boost in power capacity as a result of a new finding from researchers at MIT. They found that using carbon nanotubes for one of the battery’s electrodes produced a significant increase — up to tenfold — in the amount of power it could deliver from a given weight of material, compared [...]

  • Sustainability Council: Nanotech Commercialisation Racing Ahead Of Safety Regulation

    Updated: 2010-06-29 22:08:13
    Source: Voxy.com.nz – June 20, 2010 New Zealand women are being exposed to cosmetic products containing a typeof nanomaterial that has been stripped from the shelves in Europe and Australia. Products containing nanoparticles called “fullerenes” remain on sale in New Zealand even though the European cosmetics industry has pledged not to use them until more [...]

  • Greener Nanotech 2010: Navigating EHS for nanomaterials

    Updated: 2010-06-29 22:08:12
    Source: Electro IQ – June 21, 2010 Greener Nanotech 2010 conference (June 16-18, U. of Oregon, Portland, OR) focused on both the importance of verifying that any nanomaterials products are safe for the environment and health, as well as importance of continuing to move beneficial side of nanomaterials forward. Oregon has been involved in green [...]

  • Comparison of the toxicity of silver, gold and platinum nanoparticles in developing zebrafish embryos

    Updated: 2010-06-29 22:08:12
    Source: ICON – June, 2010 [...] Gold (Au-NP, 15–35 nm), silver (Ag-NP, 5–35 nm) and platinum nanoparticles (Pt-NP, 3–10 nm) were synthesized using polyvinyl alcohol (PVA) as a capping agent. Toxicity was recorded in terms of mortality, hatching delay, phenotypic defects and metal accumulation. [...] Among the nanoparticles studied, Ag-NPs were found to be the [...]

  • Fab Synchronization for producing advanced chips

    Updated: 2010-06-29 22:08:10
    Four reputed companies have come together to synchronize semiconductor manufacturing program for producing advanced chips based on 28nm process technology. IBM, Samsung Electronics, ST Microelectronics and Global Foundries are working towards standardization of advanced 28nm process technology so those consistent products are made worldwide for various applications including electronics and device manufacturers. The 28nm process technology, [...]

  • Towards improvement in the efficiency of the solar cell

    Updated: 2010-06-29 22:08:09
    Solar energy is one of the major renewable sources of energy; however the major drawback of utilizing the energy is the conversion of it. The best nanowire solar cells available at present thin film solar cells of type III/IV and had a conversion efficiency of the order of 37 to 40 percent and researchers want [...]

  • Timely technology sees tiny transitions

    Updated: 2010-06-29 22:08:09
    Scientists can detect the movements of single molecules by using fluorescent tags or by pulling them in delicate force measurements, but only for a few minutes. A new technique by Rice University researchers will allow them to track single molecules without modifying them — and it works over longer timescales.

  • Nanowires for the electronics and optoelectronics of the future

    Updated: 2010-06-29 22:08:09
    The tale begins with a feasibility study on the manufacture of colored fluorescing thin films for optical safety applications. An EU project on the development of novel gas sensors followed. In the meantime, Empa researchers have successfully synthesized complex organic nanowires and managed to attach them together with electrically conducting links — the first step [...]

  • Researchers develop new method for mass-producing graphene

    Updated: 2010-06-29 22:08:08
    Researchers at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute have developed a simple new method for producing large quantities of the promising nanomaterial graphene. The new technique works at room temperature, needs little processing, and paves the way for cost-effective mass production of graphene.

  • Researchers create self-assembling nanodevices that move and change shape on demand

    Updated: 2010-06-29 22:08:07
    By emulating nature’s design principles, researchers have created nanodevices made of DNA that self-assemble and can be programmed to move and change shape on demand. Double helices fold up into larger, rigid linear struts that connect by intervening single-stranded DNA. These single strands of DNA pull the struts up into a 3D form. The resulting [...]

  • Today’s nanotech lets $400 camera see cancer cells

    Updated: 2010-06-29 21:32:36
    Frequent Nanodot readers know that our main interest is longer-term nanotech, but sometimes what’s happening today gets pretty exciting as well.  A quick summary  of recent advances in nanotech used to fight cancer appears in a Computerworld piece by Sharon Gaudin; some excerpts: Rice University said yesterday that when the nanoparticles deliver dye to the cell, a [...]

  • Vaccine Manufacturing World

    Updated: 2010-06-29 00:00:00
    Conference/exhibition: 18 Oct 2010, Shanghai, China. Organized by Imapac Pte Ltd.

  • PhysicA SPb

    Updated: 2010-06-29 00:00:00
    Conference: 27 Oct 2010 - 28 Oct 2010, St Petersburg, Russian Federation. Organized by Russian Academy of Sciences and the Ioffe Institute.

  • GAO Report States That EPA Faces Challenges in Regulating Risk of Nanomaterials

    Updated: 2010-06-28 23:02:30
    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 GAO Report States That EPA Faces Challenges in Regulating Risk of Nanomaterials GAO Report States That EPA Faces Challenges in Regulating Risk of Nanomaterials Posted on June 28, 2010 by Lynn L . Bergeson Email This Print Comments Trackbacks Share Link According to a report released on June 25, 2010, by the U.S . Government Accountability Office GAO the U.S . Environmental Protection Agency EPA faces challenges in effectively regulating nanomaterials that may be released in air , water , and waste because EPA lacks the technology to monitor and characterize

  • Finally: all nanotech degree programs listed on one site

    Updated: 2010-06-28 22:55:13
    For years we’ve watched academic degree programs in nanotechnology being announced piecemeal, or in partial lists.  Now it looks like Nanowerk has stepped up to the task of keeping a complete list, sorted by level of degree and country.  See it here: http://www.nanowerk.com/nanotechnology/nanotechnology_degrees.php A handy chart allows users to click through to see all the programs [...]

  • Mission of Gravity, Part 3: GOCE updates the shape of the Earth

    Updated: 2010-06-28 20:04:55
    The GOCE satellite flies extraordinarily low and it thrusts constantly to compensate for air drag while making exquisite measurements of the gravitational gradient. The just-released result is a map of the geoid — the gravitational equipotential surface of the Earth — shown below as a delta from an idealized ellipsoid. GOCE can measure the geoid [...]

  • OECD Publishes Guidance Manual And Preliminary Guidance Notes

    Updated: 2010-06-25 19:09:44
    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 OECD OECD Publishes Guidance Manual And Preliminary Guidance Notes OECD Publishes Guidance Manual And Preliminary Guidance Notes Posted on June 25, 2010 by Lynn L . Bergeson Email This Print Comments Trackbacks Share Link On June 8, 2010, the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development OECD announced the publication of two materials for use in the OECD Sponsorship Programme . nbsp The first is a revision of the Guidance Manual for the Testing of Manufactured Nanomaterials According to OECD , the revised Guidance is intended to support the testing

  • Top-down nanotech marching downwards (in a good way)

    Updated: 2010-06-24 22:36:02
    Nanowerk brings us news of advances at Singapore’s Institute of Bioengineering and Nanotechnology: Researchers at the Institute of Bioengineering and Nanotechnology (IBN) in Singapore have now successfully demonstrated, for the first time, a lithography-free, direct-write technique for fabricating discrete field-effect transistors, as well as digital logic gates on a single nanowire… “Our single-step fabrication technique obviates the time-consuming [...]

  • Data-mining the bioscience literature

    Updated: 2010-06-24 05:12:51
    Genomics, transcriptomics, proteomics, and metabolomics now meet paperomics: Automated trawling, not of whole slices of nature, but of whole slices of the scientific literature — the idea is to look for indirect links among papers that may indicate undiscovered links in nature. From the Computable Genomix website: …Powered by patent pending next generation text mining technology, GeneIndexer [...]

  • PCAST Seeks Comment on Technology's Golden Triangle

    Updated: 2010-06-22 23:10:45
    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 PCAST Seeks Comment on Technology's Golden Triangle PCAST Seeks Comment on Technology's Golden Triangle Posted on June 22, 2010 by Lynn L . Bergeson Email This Print Comments Trackbacks Share Link The President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology PCAST seeks comment from stakeholders on how the federal government can best use its resources so three of the newest and most promising technologies , rdquo including nanotechnology , provide the greatest economic benefits to society . rdquo The President's Innovation and Technology Advisory Committee

  • Webcast and comment online to President’s Council on nanotech

    Updated: 2010-06-22 18:50:13
    Tihamer Toth-Fejel let us know that the public can comment online today, right now, our views on nanotech: http://www.whitehouse.gov/administration/eop/ostp/pcast President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST) President’s Innovation and Technology Advisory Committee (PITAC) Golden Triangle1 Workshop 1 Golden Triangle: Research Encompassing Information Technology — Biotechnology — Nanotechnology. June 22, 2010 Webcast at: http://www.tvworldwide.com/events/pcast/100622/ Goal of Workshop: The information from this workshop will [...]

  • Correction to my last post: Clarification from EPA

    Updated: 2010-06-22 18:29:05
    Richard Denison, Ph.D., is a Senior Scientist. I have learned from EPA (see EPA's statement at the end of this post) that, in my last post, I misinterpreted a key part of the May 26 Directive that EPA and the Coast Guard issued to BP calling for reductions in overall dispersant use.   Specifically, it stated "BP shall [...]

  • Nano in Cancer: Linking Chemistry, Biology, and Clinical Applications In Vivo

    Updated: 2010-06-22 00:00:00
    Conference: 12 Jan 2011 - 15 Jan 2011, Miami, Florida, United States. Organized by American Association for Cancer Research (AACR).

  • Open Science Summit to be streamed live

    Updated: 2010-06-21 23:00:46
    Not able to attend the Open Science Summit on July 29-31 in Berkeley, California? We’ll miss you, but you can watch the conference live at: http://fora.tv/live/open_science/open_science_summit_2010 Put it on your calendar now!  Or we’ll hope to see you in person, especially for the session where I’m speaking: “Safety and Security Concerns, Open Source Biodefense” at 5:15 PM on [...]

  • ECHA Publishes Technical Manual for Including Nanoforms in an IUCLID Dossier

    Updated: 2010-06-21 21:22:23
    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 International ECHA Publishes Technical Manual for Including Nanoforms in an IUCLID Dossier ECHA Publishes Technical Manual for Including Nanoforms in an IUCLID Dossier Posted on June 21, 2010 by Lynn L . Bergeson Email This Print Comments Trackbacks Share Link On June 11, 2010, the European Chemicals Agency ECHA announced the availability of a technical manual for including nanoforms in an International Uniform Chemical Information Database IUCLID dossier . nbsp The Nanomaterials in IUCLID 5.2 Industry User Manual gives practical instruction to Registration ,

  • Is BP complying with the Directive to reduce dispersant use in the Gulf?

    Updated: 2010-06-21 18:15:00
    Richard Denison, Ph.D., is a Senior Scientist. [Note added 6/22:  I have corrected one of the figures below, which was based on a misunderstanding of the EPA/Coast Guard Directive.  Please see this correction for the updated information and a statement from EPA.] As of yesterday, BP’s use of dispersants to address the ongoing Deepwater Horizon [...]

  • Molecular Mechano-Electronics

    Updated: 2010-06-21 02:13:24
    Pulling on the ends of a cobalt complex that bridges an electrical junction (as illustrated) changes the geometry of the coordinating ligands, hence the energies of electronic spin states, hence (as it turns out) the low-temperature electrical resistance of the junction. The authors of the paper cited here look toward potential applications for devices that [...]

  • New open-access nanotechnology journal from Beilstein

    Updated: 2010-06-18 23:20:01
    Those of you with a background in organic chemistry will recognize the venerable name of Beilstein, originally a handbook of organic chemistry which evolved into a database, later combined with Gmelin inorganic data to form the Crossfire database. So the Beilstein brand is a powerful one in chemistry.  Nanowerk brings to our attention that Beilstein is [...]

  • EU and China Sign MOU Concerning Nanotechnology Risk Assessment

    Updated: 2010-06-18 23:03:48
    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 International EU and China Sign MOU Concerning Nanotechnology Risk Assessment EU and China Sign MOU Concerning Nanotechnology Risk Assessment Posted on June 18, 2010 by Lynn L . Bergeson Email This Print Comments Trackbacks Share Link On June 6, 2010, the European Commission EC Joint Research Center Institute for Health and Consumer Protection JRC-IHCP and the Chinese Academy of Inspection and Quarantine signed a Memorandum of Understanding MOU at the European Union EU China Food Safety Scientific Seminar held at the Shanghai World Expo . According to JRC-IHCP , b

  • A glimmer of good news flowing from the Gulf’s other recent disaster

    Updated: 2010-06-18 19:36:48
    Richard Denison, Ph.D., is a Senior Scientist. I’ve been blogging for some weeks now about how we may be compounding the problems of the BP oil disaster through our massive use of inadequately tested and ineffective dispersants.  There’s an eerie echo in these events to the compounding effects of decisions made in the wake of [...]

  • Germany's BfR Recommends Manufacturers Not Use Nanoscale Silver Ions in Consumer Products

    Updated: 2010-06-17 17:37:12
    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 EU Member State Germany's BfR Recommends Manufacturers Not Use Nanoscale Silver Ions in Consumer Products Germany's BfR Recommends Manufacturers Not Use Nanoscale Silver Ions in Consumer Products Posted on June 17, 2010 by Lynn L . Bergeson Email This Print Comments Trackbacks Share Link On June 10, 2010, the Federal Institute for Risk Assessment BfR issued a press release entitled Nanosilver has no place in food , textiles or cosmetics which states BfR currently advises against using nanoscale silver ions in consumer products . rdquo According to BfR ,

  • Needless Megadeaths: A Suggestion for Science in the Public Interest

    Updated: 2010-06-16 21:20:05
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  • Join us at Singularity Summit, Aug. 14-15 on intelligence augmentation

    Updated: 2010-06-16 21:00:00
    Many Foresight leaders and members will be gathering at this year’s Singularity Summit in San Francisco, expected to draw up to 1100 participants.  It’s a bit pricey, but it’s for a good cause and there are student and referral discounts plus discounts on the hotel rooms.  I can testify that this is a fun and [...]

  • Singularity University in the New York Times

    Updated: 2010-06-15 22:09:22
    Our friends over at Singularity University are described in some detail in a long article in the New York Times.  An excerpt, with names familiar to Nanodot readers as speakers at Foresight conferences: Some of Silicon Valley’s smartest and wealthiest people have embraced the Singularity. They believe that technology may be the only way to solve [...]

  • Are you a guinea pig?

    Updated: 2010-06-15 15:05:22
    Richard Denison, Ph.D., is a Senior Scientist. The answer to that question — or at least what should be the answer — is the name of a new campaign launched today by Environmental Defense Fund, in cooperation with the Safer Chemicals, Healthy Families coalition and a number of its member organizations. I Am Not a Guinea [...]

  • EPA data show dispersants plus oil are more toxic than either alone

    Updated: 2010-06-15 03:05:27
    Richard Denison, Ph.D., is a Senior Scientist. In an earlier post, I noted in haste some apparent discrepancies between EPA and BP acute toxicity data on the Corexit® dispersants.  Little did I realize that the data mixup was actually telling me something much more significant:  that the dispersant maker’s own test data demonstrate that the [...]

  • Lab-on-a-Chip European Congress

    Updated: 2010-06-15 00:00:00
    Conference/exhibition: 30 Jun 2011 - 1 Jul 2011, Hamburg, Germany. Organized by Select Biosciences.

  • Lab-on-a-Chip World Congress

    Updated: 2010-06-15 00:00:00
    Conference/exhibition: 28 Oct 2010 - 29 Oct 2010, San Diego, CA, United States. Organized by Select Biosciences.

  • Microarray World Congress

    Updated: 2010-06-15 00:00:00
    Conference/exhibition: 28 Oct 2010 - 29 Oct 2010, San Diego, CA, United States. Organized by Select Biosciences.

  • LOT & Quantum Design Low Temperature & Magnetometry Instrumentation Workshop (Latest Cryo-free Technology)

    Updated: 2010-06-15 00:00:00
    Workshop: 20 Jul 2010, Chessington, Surrey, United Kingdom. Organized by LOT Oriel Ltd.

  • Advances in Microarray Technology

    Updated: 2010-06-15 00:00:00
    Conference/exhibition: 30 Jun 2011 - 1 Jul 2011, Hamburg, Germany. Organized by Select Biosciences.

  • House Bill Would Reauthorize NNI

    Updated: 2010-06-14 17:26:35
    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 House Bill Would Reauthorize NNI House Bill Would Reauthorize NNI Posted on June 14, 2010 by Lynn L . Bergeson Email This Print Comments Trackbacks Share Link On May 28, 2010, the House passed , by a vote of 262-150, the America COMPETES Reauthorization Act of 2010 H.R . 5116 which would authorize funding for the National Nanotechnology Initiative NNI as well as the National Science Foundation NSF National Institute of Standards and Technology NIST and Department of Energy DOE Office of Science activities . nbsp The bill includes language from H.R . 554,

  • Dispersants are a teachable moment for TSCA reform

    Updated: 2010-06-10 19:10:46
    Richard Denison, Ph.D., is a Senior Scientist. The Safer Chemicals, Healthy Families campaign just held a press call to draw direct links between the huge unknowns associated with the unprecedented use of chemical dispersants in the Gulf and the failures of TSCA.  The campaign called upon Congress to ensure that legislation to reform TSCA fully [...]

  • H+ Summit “Rise of the Citizen Scientist” webcast this weekend

    Updated: 2010-06-09 23:36:58
    If you can’t make it to Harvard this weekend, June 12-13, you’ll want to catch the live webcast of the H+ Summit: “Rise of the Citizen Scientist”.  No link yet, but presumably they’ll be putting it on the event homepage before it starts.  Also presumably they will post the videos somewhere for longer-term viewing. UPDATE: [...]

  • FDA Posts MAPP on Reporting Format for Nanotechnology-Related Information

    Updated: 2010-06-09 23:14:37
    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 FDA Posts MAPP on Reporting Format for Nanotechnology-Related Information FDA Posts MAPP on Reporting Format for Nanotechnology-Related Information Posted on June 9, 2010 by Lynn L . Bergeson Email This Print Comments Trackbacks Share Link On June 3, 2010, the Food and Drug Administration FDA Center for Drug Evaluation and Research CDER Office of Pharmaceutical Science OPS posted on its website a Manual of Policies and Procedures MAPP entitled Reporting Format for Nanotechnology-Related Information in CMC Review The purpose of the MAPP is to provide

  • EPA clarifies it wants more information on those dispersants made public

    Updated: 2010-06-09 22:24:57
    Richard Denison, Ph.D., is a Senior Scientist. EPA issued a statement today drawing attention to its posting on its website late last week of the ingredients in NALCO’s Corexit® dispersants, more than one million gallons of which have now been released into the Gulf of Mexico.  The statement appears to have been issued in response [...]

  • EP Committee Adds Nanosilver and Long Multi-Walled Carbon Nanotubes to Proposed RoHS Recast

    Updated: 2010-06-08 23:05:12
    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 International EP Committee Adds Nanosilver and Long Multi-Walled Carbon Nanotubes to Proposed RoHS Recast EP Committee Adds Nanosilver and Long Multi-Walled Carbon Nanotubes to Proposed RoHS Recast Posted on June 8, 2010 by Lynn L . Bergeson Email This Print Comments 1 Trackbacks Share Link On June 2, 2010, the European Parliament EP Committee on the Environment , Public Health , and Food Safety approved the proposed recast of the Directive on the Restrictions of Hazardous Substances RoHS in Electrical and Electronic Equipment , with 55 votes in favor , one against

  • Presto: Corexit® dispersant ingredients revealed

    Updated: 2010-06-08 22:27:35
    Richard Denison, Ph.D., is a Senior Scientist. With no fanfare whatsoever, a list of the ingredients in the Corexit® dispersants has been posted on EPA’s website.  I can’t say when the list appeared — I was pointed to it by Elana Schor, a reporter with E&E News, who discovered the list a little earlier today, [...]

  • Materials, nanotechnology, iPhone app

    Updated: 2010-06-08 19:36:25
    Science news links for June 3rd through June 8th, including my latest contributions to Materials Today magazine: Nanotechnology fights cancer – Functionalised single-walled carbon nanotubes, rather than being a health risk, cause T cell antigens to cluster in the blood and stimulate the body's natural immune response. Flat-packed carbon – Synthesising and isolating new forms [...]Materials, nanotechnology, iPhone app is a post from: Sciencebase Science Blog You can also connect with Sciencebase on Facebook and Twitter

  • Nanotech = Hot job of 2018, says Wall Street Journal

    Updated: 2010-06-07 22:21:07
    Here at Foresight, we’re always trying to help those looking to move their careers in the direction of nanotechnology. Now the Wall Street Journal is predicting that this should pay off: Kelley McDonald has always loved exploring new terrain. In home videos as early as age 3, “I’m always off by myself, looking under rocks or catching [...]

  • Singularity Summit 2010: Last Day for Best Discount

    Updated: 2010-06-07 21:36:10
    The Singularity Summit 2010 features a variety of discounts for registration, including $100 off for students and $100 off for every non-student referral. However, the greatest discounts are for registering early — there is a $300 discount off the at-the-door cost of the conference if you register by midnight tonight, Monday the 7th. [...]

  • Inquiry in Engineering, Design in Science: Completing the Matrix

    Updated: 2010-06-07 08:25:16
    The focus of science is inquiry, and the focus of engineering is design. Just as sensory and motor neurons run antiparallel through the structure of the body, so inquiry and design run antiparallel through the structure of knowledge. Eye and hand, perception and action, measuring and making, science seeking knowledge, engineering seeking function. I’ve been exploring [...]

  • Another BP leak – this time, it's their 2009 Gulf of Mexico oil spill contingency plan

    Updated: 2010-06-06 23:46:36
    Richard Denison, Ph.D., is a Senior Scientist. Just as BP seems to be making some progress in slowing the leakage of oil from Deepwater Horizon, another leak has appeared.  Karen Dalton Beninato, writing on NewOrleans.com, has obtained, and posted for all to see, a copy of BP’s June 2009 “Gulf of Mexico Regional Oil Spill [...]

  • Knowledge and causality in inquiry and design

    Updated: 2010-06-03 03:31:01
    The structure of science and engineering, a big mistake, and a book See also: “The Antiparallel Structures of Science and Engineering” An effect may have one possible cause, or many. The weight of a stone has a single cause, gravity, but the flight of a stone coming over a wall could have one of many [...]

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