[FRIAM] Complexity, Ottawa and Nanotechnology (was Re: Struck me as funny)

[Carl Tollander]

Merle, go to phys.org and click on the Nanotechnology tab.
https://phys.org/nanotech-news/  .   Free, as in birds.  Short, usually
accessible, articles on what's current research, sort of on the level of
Science News.  The article usually wind up with a please-fund-me paragraph
on potential applications. My own view is that nano engineering is mostly
getting absorbed into materials science (sensors, filters, optics, etc).


On Mon, Jan 24, 2022 at 12:14 PM Stephen Guerin <stephen.guerin at simtable.com>
wrote:

> Merle,
>
> I'm no expert but here are some writings
>
> I trust Philip Ball as a science writer that distills well and doesn't add
> mushy fluff:
> https://academic.oup.com/nsr/article/8/6/nwaa266/6009035
>
> There's some debate on using the framework of Complexity as an appropriate
> lens for nanotechnology (I only where one pair of sunglasses)
> referencing Laughlins "A Different Universe: Reinventing Physics from the
> Bottom Down"
> https://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/046503828X
>
> reviews:
> https://physicstoday.scitation.org/doi/full/10.1063/1.2138425
> http://www.softmachines.org/wordpress/?p=104
>
> As an aside, we're working with wildfire folks in:
>
> Aviation, Forest Fire and Emergency Services (AFFES)
> Ministry of Northern Development, Mines, Natural Resources and Forestry
> Government of Ontario
>
> Your Dean at U of Ottawa may be interested in how we're applying
> complexity in his province.
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> On Mon, Jan 24, 2022 at 11:29 AM Merle Lefkoff <merlelefkoff at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Merle needs a bit of help.  I'm teaching a short online course this week
>> for the U. of Ottawa, and one of the guys in my course is the Dean of the
>> School of Engineering. (Why, I can't imagine.)  Anyway, his research field
>> is nanotechnology.  Is it here?  Where has it been applied?  Is it an
>> incredibly generative technology that will change our near-term future?
>> HELP, and thanks.
>>
>> On Mon, Jan 24, 2022 at 10:36 AM <thompnickson2 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> New York City Mayor Eric Adams (D) on Sunday morning said the Big Apple
>>> is planning to dispatch mental health professionals
>>> <https://thehill.com/homenews/sunday-talk-shows/590963-nyc-mayor-says-he-will-reinstitute-a-modified-plainclothes-anti>
>>> to its subway system as a way to prevent crime. He said the city is going
>>> to “flood our system with mental health professionals and law enforcement
>>> working as a team to move out the disorder that's clearly in the subway
>>> system in our city.”
>>>
>>> A couch by every turnstyle?
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> A new collective?  A murder of crows; a flood of psychiatrists?
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Rumor has it that Biden is considering sending mental health
>>> professionals to the Ukrainian border.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Needless to say, I have volunteered.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> n
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Nick Thompson
>>>
>>> ThompNickSon2 at gmail.com
>>>
>>> https://wordpress.clarku.edu/nthompson/
>>>
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