Archive for the ‘Societal Impacts’ Category
Tuesday, December 2nd, 2008
Anyone familiar with the novel Atlas Shrugged will recognize some similarities between the events of the novel and the current economic predicament. In the novel the devaluation of the ideas of innovators in comparison to the needs of the masses eventually leads to economic decline followed by government bailouts followed ...
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Friday, March 28th, 2008
The National Science Board (NSB), made up of several scientists, researchers and educators (all of whom also happen to have fancy PhDs) and serve as the governing board of the National Science Foudnation (NSF) recently presented "Science and Engineering Indicators 2008" to the President and Congress. This report summarizes information ...
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Thursday, March 27th, 2008
I wonder if there's a giant chart somewhere that shows how all the nanotechnology funding gets funneled from our taxes to the hands of the people doing the research. If so, I'd like to see it. The alternative may be for us here at nanoREV to dig up the ...
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Monday, March 24th, 2008
An ethical dilemma with nanotech?
It turns out that a survey conducted by Dietram Scheufele, et. al. , shows that people who have "high religiosity" (i.e. are very religious) also have lower support for Federal Funding of Nanotechnology as compared to people with "low religiosity" (i.e. not so religious).
This result ...
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