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• The science we need, the science we want The Council for Science and Technology - Government's highest-level science advisory group - have this morning published their review of progress on nano policy. Broadly the message is... good work on the public engagement and standard setting but two thumbs down for funding far too few nanotoxicity studies. As is so often the case with science policy's unclear lines of responsibility, the buck has been passed along. The Science Minister was on the Today programme arguing that the money was... from : jackstilgoe 28th March 2007
• Inconvenient uncertainties Finally caught the Channel 4 climate change debunking last night. Smelt bad from the start and the stink only got worse. But a fascinating deconstruction (someone French once called this "blowing up in slow motion"). It showed that the current winners ("swindlers") of the climate change debate have a fragile position. The evidence is massively in their favour, but they're just not as good at talking about uncertainty as their Exxon-funded chums, who argue through polished... from : jackstilgoe 13th March 2007
• Another normal disaster I'm fascinated that we apparently already know what caused the derailment in Cumbria. Some bars separating the point blades broke and the inspection to check they were OK didn't happen. Job done.  Blaim laid. Except that accidents are always, always more complicated and more interesting than that. I've just been having another look at Normal Accidents by Charles Perrow, emeritus Yale Sociology professor. It's a wonderful book, written in 1984, post-Three Mile Island but pre-Chernobyl and... from : jackstilgoe 26th February 2007
• Sub-Saharan Science I’m in Washington DC, at a World Bank meeting on science and innovation for development. A new consensus appears to be emerging amongst African leaders about the importance of building up their science, technology and innovation capacity. Yesterday we heard a series of impressive presentations from the science ministers of Kenya, Mozambique, Nigeria and South Africa, all of whom are scaling up their levels of investment and ambition. Nigeria, for example, is using part of its recent... from : jameswilsdon 16th February 2007
• Science & Technology at Scientific American.com: A Science of the Web Begins Furthermore, vast emergent properties are beginning to arise on the Web, and no one is studying how they have blossomed or what they may mean for society. from : mollywebb 29th January 2007
• Magic buttons Coverage today from the Guardian and the B B C of yesterday's launch of the Sciencehorizons project. 8 floors up at the Royal College of Art, overlooking the Albert Hall (officially the Albert Hall of Arts and Sciences), we had Science Minister Malcolm Wicks and a group of 12 RCA students using our discussion packs for the first time. The conversation was really rich. I tried to get as many quote as possible. They covered organ donation ("If we know we can grow spares, how does that... from : jackstilgoe 26th January 2007
• Science fears loss of its superpower ally - World - Times Online Science fears loss of its superpower ally - World - Times Online from : mollywebb 17th January 2007
• Demos warns Britain might get sidelined in global scienctific revolution Demos warns Britain might get sidelined in global scienctific revolution from : mollywebb 17th January 2007
• A new soft machine As we gear up to tomorrow's Atlas of Ideas launch, focussing on science in China, India and Korea, I've been thinking about some new bits of world-class British science. I spent last week in a Nano-sand-pit, working with 20 of the countries leading nano-scientists on new ways of turning information into stuff (towards a sort of mini 3D printer). The Ideas Factory blog, which over the course of the week climbed into Wordpress's top-ten, attracting over 100 comments, has just announced one of... from : jackstilgoe 16th January 2007
• Korea: Mass innovation comes of age South Korea’s transformation from ‘hermit kingdom’ to a global technology power has been the most dramatic development story of the last half century. Yet the Korean state cannot afford complacency as other Asian powers rise around it. from : mollywebb 16th January 2007

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