GeekPress is back, and linking to a fascinating article on squaring circles. I love that we live in a time when a solution has been found to such stubborn old problem. Interestingly, it proved much easier to make a cube out of a sphere than it did a square out of a circle. The article […]

Far better to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in the gray twilight that knows not victory, nor defeat. Theodore Roosevelt, 1899

It couldn’t have gone to a more deserving guy. Congrats, Howard!

Wired Magazine ran a recent piece on K. Eric Drexler, whose relationship to the field of nanotechnology is difficult to characterize — Dean? Founder? — as The Incredible Shrinking Man. There is no question that Drexler’s work has been misrepresented and misunderstood, that the term "nanotechnology" has been co-opted by others who then have the […]

The Prince of Wales is once again warning about the dangers of nanotechnology: The Prince acknowledges nanotechnology is a “triumph of human ingenuity”. “Some of the work may have fundamental benefits to society, such as enabling the construction of much cheaper fuel-cells, or new ways of combating ill-health,” he says. But he adds: “How are […]