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Destructive Nano Video


Chris Phoenix


Responsible Nanotechnology

March 11, 2009

(Chris Phoenix, co-founder and Director of Research at the Center for Responsible Nanotechnology, has recently returned from a sabbatical. )  Well, that’s a nice welcome-back-to-work for you. Two days into my new/old job, and I hear that there’s a nano video going viral. It’s hosted, no surprise, by none other than Wired, which also published Bill Joy’s anti-nano article in 2000.  Nanotechnologists, take note: Wired wants to destroy your funding.


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Posted by jarod  on  03/11  at  01:50 PM

Mr. Treder: My name is Jarod Giger. I am a 2year phd student at the University of Missouri (MU), and a graduate research assistant at MU's Center for Eldercare Technology and Rehabilitation. Do you have the academic reference for this research? Thanks in advance.

jarod giger



Posted by Mike Treder  on  03/11  at  02:06 PM

Hi Jarod,

According to the two articles I read about it, the results are supposed to be published in the journal Intelligence "this week" -- but I can't find it online yet.

A related study on "Why do intelligent people live longer?" was written up by one of the researchers in the journal Nature last November. See http://tinyurl.com/c9slgs



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