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		<title>2020 Science has moved&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Jan 2009 15:38:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew Maynard</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you&#8217;ve reached this page, you have reached the old 2020science blog site. Please follow this link to the new (and considerably improved) blog: http://2020science.org See you there! Andrew Maynard Posted in Nanotechnology<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=2020science.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4906878&amp;post=668&amp;subd=2020science&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A red-letter day for science and technology</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Jan 2009 13:20:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew Maynard</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As Barack Obama takes the oath and is inaugurated as the 44th President of the United States, many are anticipating a new era of socially relevant science and technology.  Having run one of the most technologically savvy campaigns in recent times—possibly ever—Obama’s transition teams continued to break new ground in using technology up open up [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=2020science.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4906878&amp;post=664&amp;subd=2020science&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Nanotechnology, science and public engagement—lessons from the UK</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Jan 2009 01:25:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew Maynard</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Public engagement was a key feature in Barack Obama’s presidential campaign, and has been front and foremost in the transition between the old administration and the new.  You only have to check out change.gov to see how ideas are evolving on soliciting and evaluating opinions from a broad swath of the population.  The latest is [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=2020science.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4906878&amp;post=659&amp;subd=2020science&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Scientific knowledge, and the “pay to play” culture</title>
		<link>http://2020science.wordpress.com/2009/01/07/nanotechnology-scientific-knowledge-pay-to-play-culture/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Jan 2009 00:58:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew Maynard</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://2020science.org/?p=650</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Here’s a bit of trivia to brighten your day:  Between 2000 and 2007, Chinese scientists published roughly one nanotoxicology paper for every ten million people in the country.  In contrast, US scientists published twenty-five nanotoxicology papers for every ten million citizens. I know this because I have just read a fascinating assessment of nanotoxicology publications [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=2020science.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4906878&amp;post=650&amp;subd=2020science&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Five more good books</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Jan 2009 02:26:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew Maynard</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Science gone right, science gone wrong, science gone social, science gone political—it’s all here in five off-beat book recommendations to kick off 2009.  Ranging from Darwin’s Origin of Species to Sir Terry Pratchett’s Nation, the one thing I think I can guarantee is that you will struggle to find an odder bunch of literary bed-fellows!  [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=2020science.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4906878&amp;post=642&amp;subd=2020science&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Biohacking—synthetic biology for the technologically marginalized</title>
		<link>http://2020science.wordpress.com/2008/12/26/biohacking-synthetic-biology-for-the-technologically-marginalized/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Dec 2008 02:41:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew Maynard</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Oversight]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Synthetic Biology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Biohackers]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://2020science.org/?p=626</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Last June I wrote a short piece on biohacking, prompted by a UK report on the social and ethical challenges of synthetic biology.  At the time, I though the aspirations of the nascent biopunk community naively optimistic, but potentially worrying.  Six months on, biohacking is hitting the mainstream press—and gaining momentum. Maybe it was just [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=2020science.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4906878&amp;post=626&amp;subd=2020science&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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			<media:title type="html">the Synthetic Biology Project</media:title>
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		<title>A &#8220;manifesto&#8221; for socially-relevant science and technology</title>
		<link>http://2020science.wordpress.com/2008/12/24/a-manifesto-for-socially-relevant-science-and-technology/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Dec 2008 20:36:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew Maynard</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Revisiting Sheila Jasanoff’s Technologies of Humility In 2003, Harvard University’s Sheila Jasanoff wrote about what she termed “Technologies of Humility.” Recognizing the growing disconnect between technological progress and its effective governance, Jasanoff explored new approaches to decision-making that “seek to integrate the ‘can-do’ orientation of science and engineering with the ‘should-do’ questions of ethical and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=2020science.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4906878&amp;post=615&amp;subd=2020science&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Obama &#8211; staking out a science and technology presidency</title>
		<link>http://2020science.wordpress.com/2008/12/20/obama-staking-out-a-science-and-technology-presidency/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Dec 2008 17:57:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew Maynard</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[John Holdren is confirmed as the next Assistant to the President for Science and Technology Barack Obama is serious about science and technology.  It was clear in the campaign; clear in the President-Elect’s policies, and doubly clear in the speed with which he has established scientific leadership for the incoming administration. Today’s official announcement that [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=2020science.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4906878&amp;post=607&amp;subd=2020science&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>John Holdren &#8211; Obama&#8217;s new science advisor?</title>
		<link>http://2020science.wordpress.com/2008/12/18/john-holdren-obamas-new-science-advisor/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Dec 2008 20:56:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew Maynard</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Reports are coming in that Professor John Holdren &#8211; director of the Program on Science, Technology, and Public Policy at the Kennedy School, University of Harvard &#8211; is Barack Obama&#8217;s pick for science advisor, and head of the Office of Science and Technology Policy. From ScienceDirect: Strong indications are that President-elect Barack Obama has picked [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=2020science.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4906878&amp;post=595&amp;subd=2020science&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Saints or synners?</title>
		<link>http://2020science.wordpress.com/2008/12/17/saints-or-synners/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Dec 2008 20:42:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew Maynard</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Policy, public perceptions, and the opportunities and challenges of synthetic biology Synthetic biology—a supreme expression of scientific hubris, or the solution to all our problems? Like everything in life, I suspect that the answer to the question is far from black and white.  Yet what is clear is that this emerging science and technology that [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=2020science.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4906878&amp;post=587&amp;subd=2020science&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Getting to grips with nanomaterial toxicity</title>
		<link>http://2020science.wordpress.com/2008/12/15/getting-to-grips-with-nanomaterial-toxicity/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Dec 2008 01:06:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew Maynard</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Nanotechnology]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Introducing MINChar—a new community initiative to support effective material characterization in nanotoxicity studies. Here’s a tough one:  Imagine you have a new substance—call it substance X—and you run some tests to see how toxic it is.  But you’re not quite sure what substance X is. You know that it is a powder, and it is [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=2020science.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4906878&amp;post=576&amp;subd=2020science&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Emerging science and technology at 700 characters per day – how was it for you?</title>
		<link>http://2020science.wordpress.com/2008/12/13/emerging-science-and-technology-at-700-characters-per-day-%e2%80%93-how-was-it-for-you/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 13 Dec 2008 23:50:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew Maynard</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The pains and pleasures of tweeting science and technology innovation, 140 characters at a time. Five days, 539 words and 3,447 characters later, the Twitter experiment is over. Did I succeed in communicating on emerging science and technology in 700 characters a day?  I’m not sure.  The whole exercise was harder than I expected.  Trying [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=2020science.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4906878&amp;post=552&amp;subd=2020science&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Tough love for science and technology innovation</title>
		<link>http://2020science.wordpress.com/2008/12/10/tough-love-for-science-and-technology-innovation/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Dec 2008 14:41:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew Maynard</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The National Research Council of the National Academies releases its review of the National Nanotechnology Initiative Strategy for Nanotechnology-Related Environmental, Health, and Safety Research.  And it’s not pretty. Most people acknowledge that innovation is vital to economic and social prosperity.  But what do you do when science and technology innovation are in danger of being [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=2020science.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4906878&amp;post=545&amp;subd=2020science&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Emerging science and technology at 700 characters per day</title>
		<link>http://2020science.wordpress.com/2008/12/06/emerging-science-and-technology-at-700-characters-per-day/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Dec 2008 22:24:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew Maynard</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Getting serious with Twitter I’m gutted.  I thought that blogging was where it is at—the cutting edge of the “new media” wave transforming modern communication.  But I now discover that I’m at least four years behind the times—a veritable dinosaur in the world of “Web 2.0!” Which is why I’m pushing myself out on a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=2020science.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4906878&amp;post=528&amp;subd=2020science&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Indecent exposure</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Dec 2008 14:01:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew Maynard</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Navigating the minefield of airborne nanoparticle exposure Nanotechnology—like other emerging technologies—presents a dilemma:  If you&#8217;re making new substances with uncertain health risks, how low is low enough when it comes to managing exposure? The issue is raised in the current edition of Nature Nanotechnology by Vladimir Murashov of the National Institute for Occupational Safety and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=2020science.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4906878&amp;post=504&amp;subd=2020science&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Carbon nanotubes rock—literally!</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Nov 2008 23:03:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew Maynard</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A nanotechnology fix for high-end audio addicts? I’m sitting at my computer watching a surreal balletic movie—a sheet of highly aligned carbon nanotubes is being slowly stretched, then allowed to slowly contract.  In the background is a soundtrack of traditional-sounding Chinese music. At least I think the soundtrack is over-dubbed, until I realize that the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=2020science.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4906878&amp;post=496&amp;subd=2020science&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Toxic particles and trivial pursuits*</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Nov 2008 03:44:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew Maynard</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[First impressions of the ICON EHS Database Analysis Tool What do you do this holiday season when the turkey’s lost its appeal, you’ve seen every movie worth watching ten times over, and conversational déjà-vu sets in?  If you are really desperate, you could play “nano-trivia”—and thanks to the fine folks at the International Council On [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=2020science.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4906878&amp;post=487&amp;subd=2020science&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Nov 2008 02:21:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew Maynard</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Stephanie Meyer, blockbuster movies and emerging technologies If you are a teenager, or have teenage kids, you are probably keenly aware that the movie of Stephanie Meyer’s best-seller “Twilight” opens this weekend.  (At least, if you live in the US—readers elsewhere have a few more weeks of nail-biting anticipation to go.) Being something of a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=2020science.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4906878&amp;post=482&amp;subd=2020science&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Nanotechnology and the G20 emergency summit</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 15 Nov 2008 21:23:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew Maynard</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Do emerging technologies have a place at the table? As world leaders congregate in Washington DC this weekend for the G20 summit on the global financial crisis, discussions will be informed in part by what has been described as the “biggest brainstorming on the global agenda that has ever taken place.”  I mention this because [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=2020science.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4906878&amp;post=475&amp;subd=2020science&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Synthetic biology: Lessons from synthetic chemistry</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Nov 2008 02:20:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew Maynard</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Looking back to chart a course to the future This coming lunchtime*, former New York Times columnist Denise Caruso will discuss the promise and pit-falls of synthetic biology with Center for American Progress senior fellow and former Washington Post science reporter Rick Weiss.  Given the track record of both participants, I’m anticipating a stimulating and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=2020science.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4906878&amp;post=463&amp;subd=2020science&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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