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Rajan Kumar is the CEO and founder of Ateios Systems, specializing in high-performance printed batteries for next-generation technologies. With a Ph.D. in Nanoengineering from UC San Diego, he has over five years of experience in wearable and medical biosensor development, integrating nanotechnology and materials science. Recognized by Forbes as one of the Next 1000 entrepreneurs, he is also an Innovation Crossroads Fellow focused on energy and advanced manufacturing innovations, showcasing his commitment to bridging technology and nature for impactful solutions. https://www.linkedin.com/in/ceoateios/ https://ateios.com/ The Riderflex Podcast, hosted by Steve Urban, features insightful interviews with entrepreneurs, business owners, and executives from various industries. With over 400 episodes, the podcast offers listeners inspiring stories of success, leadership, and personal growth. Steve Urban, as Founder & CEO of Riderflex, brings his extensive experience in recruitment and business consulting to the conversations, providing valuable career and leadership advice. Guests often share their journeys, challenges, and lessons learned, making it a must-listen for aspiring entrepreneurs and professionals looking to gain practical insights into business and personal development. Learn more about Steve Urban here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/stevepurban/ steve.urban@riderflex.com
In this episode of THE MENTORS RADIO, Host Tom Loarie talks with Jeff Karp, PhD, one of the most innovative minds in medical science. Jeff is a professor of biomedical engineering at Harvard Medical School and MIT, and he leads the Karp Lab, which has pioneered bio-inspired technologies that have led to the formation of 12 companies. His groundbreaking work includes a tissue glue that can seal holes in a beating heart and a ‘smart needle' that stops automatically upon reaching its target. Dr. Jeff Karp has been honored as an Outstanding Faculty Mentor at MIT and as the top graduate student mentor at Harvard-MIT. Jeff is also a Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors. In this episode of THE MENTORS RADIO, Dr. Karp will share insights from his discovery of Life Ignition Tools (LIT)—a toolkit that came from overcoming ADHD and put him on a path for doing great things with his life. Jeff will explain how this toolkit can help people break free perceived constraints and/or autopilot…and it will ignite you for great things as well. Listen to THE MENTORS RADIO podcast anywhere, any time, on any platform, just click here! SHOW NOTES: JEFF KARP, PhD: BIO: https://www.jeffkarp.com/author/ BOOKS: LIT: Life Ignition Tools: Use Nature's Playbook to Energize Your Brain, Spark Ideas, and Ignite Action, by Jeff Karp and Teresa Barker Micro- and Nanoengineering of the Cell Surface (Micro and Nano Technologies), by Jeffrey Karp, Welan Zhao Biology and Engineering of Stem Cell Niches, by Ajaykumar Vishwakarma (Editor), Jeffrey M Karp (Editor) WEBSITES: https://www.jeffkarp.com/ https://www.karplab.net/ SOCIAL MEDIA: Instagram: @mrjeffkarp
This is a reading of Chapter 1, second half, on the connection between Nanoengineering and all the other fields of engineering: electrical engineering, mechanical engineering, and bioengineering. Footnotes, figures, and problems for this chapter can be obtained from my book, Introduction to Nanoengineering, which I coauthored with Robert S. Ramji. If you'd like access to these resources, consider buying it or asking your institutional library to buy it! https://a.co/d/5SxYBVm
Part 1 of 2 of Chapter 1 of my book, an annotated fireside reading. Available in hard copy with footnotes, figures, and 150 solved problems, here https://a.co/d/4FZ73Z9
James Tour and Jake Newfield debate Origin of Life and Religion. James Tour is an American chemist and nanotechnologist. He is a Professor of Chemistry, and Professor of Materials Science and Nanoengineering at Rice University in Houston, Texas. For the Sake of Argument Podcast: YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@jakenewfield Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/4k9DDGJz02ibpUpervM5EY Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/for-the-sake-of-argument/id1567749546 Twitter: https://twitter.com/JakeNewfield Timeline: 00:00 - Teaser 00:33 - Introductions 00:56 - Origin of Life 24:21 - Religion Debate: was Christ Resurrected? 57:48 - James Tour's Life Story --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/jake-newfield/support
In this video, I give an annotated reading of the introduction to my book, co-authored with Robert Ramji, Introduction to Nanoengineering.
James Tour is an American chemist and nanotechnologist. He is a Professor of Chemistry, and Professor of Materials Science and Nanoengineering at Rice University in Houston, Texas. https://open.spotify.com/show/4k9DDGJz02ibpUpervM5EY Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/for-the-sake-of-argument/id1567749546 Twitter: https://twitter.com/JakeNewfield --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/jake-newfield/support
Check out the next episode of our podcast, Under the Surface! In episode 6, Revolutionizing Nanoscale Visualization, we talk to Nanome CEO and co-founder Steve McCloskey. In a virtual rollercoaster of a conversation, he shares Nanome's scrappy beginnings, the challenge and excitement of bringing new ways of interacting with models to the science community, and paints a vivid picture of an exciting element of the future of molecular modeling. It's Reality Jim, but not as we know it… Interested in giving this a test drive? Contact hello@nanome.ai to set up a demo with Nanome.
Professor Mike Curry of the North Carolina Agricultural & Technological State University (NCAT) is a scientist, inventor, mentor, and advocate with a passion for bringing attention to the great research that happens at Historically Black Colleges & Universities (HBCUs). In this episode we share an interview between Dr. Curry and Dr. Bob Hamers, Director of the NSF Center for Sustainable Nanotechnology, discussing Dr. Curry's nanocellulose research and the process of bringing HBCUs and Primarily White Institutions (PWIs) together for meaningful collaboration.image shows Mike Curry (above) and Bob Hamers (below) during their Zoom call to record this interviewWant more podcast episodes? You can find them all on our podcast page, or you can subscribe through Apple Podcasts or Overcast, or listen on NSF's Science Zone Radio.ABOUT THIS EPISODERelated links:Mike Curry: CSN profile, LinkedInBob Hamers: CSN profile, Lab websiteAccounts of Chemical Research: Special Issue on Advancing Research at HBCUsNCAT Joint School of Nanoscience and Nanoengineering,Podcast episode 12: Making Sustainable Nanoparticles from Plants with Mike CurryPodcast episode 7: What Do Glaciers Have to Do with Nanoscience? with Bob HamersCSN & Curry group alum Dr. Donald WhiteBinghamton University Emerging Science & Technology SummitNSF Ideas Lab: Advancing Research Capacity at HBCUs through Exploration and Innovation (ARC-HBCU)Recent patent: High-throughput synthesis of metallic nanoparticlesThe NSF Center for Sustainable NanotechnologyInterviewee: Mike CurryInterviewer: Bob HamersProducer/Host: Miriam KrauseMusic: PC III and Dexter BritainThis material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under the Center for Sustainable Nanotechnology, grant number CHE-2001611. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed on this podcast are those of the participants and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation or the participating institutions.
Ever heard the terms "Nanoscience or Nanoengineering"? Find out more, plus how middle and high school female students can take part in a great experience designed for girls and parents to learn from women in STEM at all ages. During this episode of Talk City Greensboro, we are joined by longtime educator Laura Tew with the Joint School of Nanoscience and Nanoengineering.
Jan Spacek is an explorer both on Earth and beyond. He has worked in the fields of astrobiology, electrochemistry, nanoscience, genomics, and proteomics searching for life within our solar system. Jan is an astrobiologist working with renowned scientist Steven Benner on expanding the genetic alphabet. In this episode of Casual Space, Jan discusses his transition to astrobiology, his work on projects related to the search for life on Mars and Venus, and the potential for private space missions. Jan explains the importance of planetary protection, the challenges of distinguishing between Earthly contamination and Martian life, and the implications of discovering life for future human missions. When he's not looking for life on Mars, or why Venus is yellow, Jan is busy freediving or bicycling across Australia. (!) Follow Jan's critical thinking about life in the universe at The Primordial Scoop https://primordialscoop.org/, a blog devoted to discussing questions related to synthetic biology and astrobiology and asking the big questions about where life began and how. Jan has worked in the field of electrochemistry of modified and natural DNA at the Czech Academy of Sciences and the Central European Institute of Technology. He has also visited the Ege University (Izmir), the Interdisciplinary Nanoscience Center (Aarhus), the Department of NanoEngineering at UCSD, and the Foundation for Applied Molecular Evolution (Alachua). He presently develops life detection devices, from coronavirus to Venusians and Martians, at the Firebird Biomolecular Sciences LLC. Outside of science, Jan bicycled around the Baltic Sea and across the Australian continent, 7500 kilometers in all. Jan earned a Master's degree in Molecular Biology and Genetics and a Ph.D. in Genomics and Proteomics (both at Masaryk University in the Czech Republic).
In Episode 28 of ALD Stories, Tyler is joined by Aalto University's Hele Savin. Hele is a professor in the department of Electronics and Nanoengineering where she uses ALD to engineer photovoltaics and semiconductor devices. In 2017, Hele was awarded the women's innovation prize from the Finnish parliament after fabricating a black silicon solar cell with a record-breaking 22.1% efficiency and currently uses ALD to create induced junction photodiodes with over 100% external quantum efficiency. Hele and Tyler discuss how she was first exposed to ALD by Beneq, a mindset that using ALD was dirty, and how mind-blowing early ALD passivation results were. We also talk about why ALD oxides are better than thermal SiO2, the theoretical implications of breaking 100% EQE, and upcoming work in up conversion in her lab. In this episode: 00:00 Intro 07:45 First experience with ALD 16:37 Passivation of Black Si Solar cells 29:52 ALD for Induced Junction Diodes 39:06 Theoretical Implications of High EQE 47:35 Future Up Conversion work
James Tour, Professor of Chemistry, Materials Science and Nanoengineering at Rice University, joins us to discuss the origins of life and the theory of intelligent design, the hostility towards Christianity in the sciences and higher education, advances in nanotechnology and artificial intelligence and what that means for the future, and how science and Christianity can coexist in harmony without negating one another.
The future is getting smaller, but like in the good way. Tom and Neil Hoover talk to Dennis LaJeunesse, a nano scientist at the Joint School of Nanoscience and Nanoengineering. There seems to be unlimited potential with nano engineering, curing cancer, lab grown meats, surgery, mapping the brain, limb regeneration, renewable energy, and saving the planet! No pressure though. Also find out what else you're eating in your bananas! #podcast #science #technology #tech #scientist #research #nanotech #microscope #exponential
Dr. James Tour is a Professor of Chemistry, Materials Science and Nanoengineering at Rice University who comes to defend a bold claim: that origin of life researchers are completely clueless about the mechanisms by which life arose on Earth. We start out with talking about Tour's chemistry work, which includes a method of producing no cost hydrogen fuel and graphene too cheap to meter, the foundations on which he's built his science empire, and get down to the vital chemistry questions that need to be answered before we can figure out what the earliest cells could have looked like. 00:00:00 Go! 00:00:17 Hydrogen fuel as a byproduct of graphene production 00:08:01 Cost of Production 00:10:58 Patreon Ask 00:12:30 Why graphene? 00:14:43 Concrete 00:19:53 How ideas happen 00:26:33 “T” People 00:31:44 Talking across disciplines 00:42:14 Making space for play in the lab 00:52:08 G_d 01:02:31 Pornography 01:14:11 The gospels 01:21:51 Synthetic Brain 01:27:55 Mechanism and miracles 01:31:26 What makes a mechanism? 01:34:21 Origin of Life 01:43:46 What is the beginning 01:49:40 The debate 02:15:12 Chirality 02:25:29 Closing thoughts Support the scientific revolution by joining our Patreon: https://bit.ly/3lcAasB Tell us what you think in the comments or on our Discord: https://discord.gg/MJzKT8CQub #originoflife #abiogenesis #syntheticchem Check our short-films channel, @DemystifySci: https://www.youtube.com/c/DemystifyingScience AND our material science investigations of atomics, @MaterialAtomics https://www.youtube.com/@MaterialAtomics Join our mailing list https://bit.ly/3v3kz2S PODCAST INFO: Anastasia completed her PhD studying bioelectricity at Columbia University. When not talking to brilliant people or making movies, she spends her time painting, reading, and guiding backcountry excursions. Shilo also did his PhD at Columbia studying the elastic properties of molecular water. When he's not in the film studio, he's exploring sound in music. They are both freelance professors at various universities. - Blog: http://DemystifySci.com/blog - RSS: https://anchor.fm/s/2be66934/podcast/rss - Donate: https://bit.ly/3wkPqaD - Swag: https://bit.ly/2PXdC2y SOCIAL: - Discord: https://discord.gg/MJzKT8CQub - Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/DemystifySci - Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/DemystifySci/ - Twitter: https://twitter.com/DemystifySci MUSIC: -Shilo Delay: https://g.co/kgs/oty671
Dr. Tod Pascal: Nanoengineering Professor and Researcher Dr. Tod Pascal is an assistant professor in Nanoengineering at University of California, San Diego. His research involves studying theoretical and computational methods to elucidate the structure and dynamics of electro-chemical systems. Before that, he was a project scientist. Before that, he was a post doc. Before that, he was a PhD student. And he's lived all over the world pursuing his work. We chatted about how he came to nanoengineering, in addition to how he goes about presenting such technical information. To get in touch with Dr. Pascal, email him at tpascal@ucsd.edu __ TEACH THE GEEK Check out http://teachthegeek.com/tips for public speaking tips. Prefer video? Go to http://youtube.teachthegeek.com
Steve McCloskey is a graduate from the first class of Nanoengineering at UC San Diego, with a focus on emerging technologies applied to STEM. He worked with the founding Chair of the Nanoengineering Department, Ken Vecchio, and helped establish the Nanoengineering Materials Research Center, while also developing thermodynamic processing methods for Iron-based Super-elastic alloys. Steve later founded Nanome Inc, a company that builds virtual reality solutions for scientists and engineers working at the nanoscale, with a focus on protein engineering and small molecule drug development.
Today's ID the Future features the first part of a conversation between James Tour and Socrates in the City host Eric Metaxas on Tour's astonishing work in nanotechnology and on the topic “How Did Life Come into Being?” Tour is the T. T. and W. F. Chao Professor of Chemistry, Professor of Computer Science, and Professor of Materials Science and Nanoengineering at Rice University. He is widely regarded as one of the world's leading nano-scientists. This event took place at the River Oaks Country Club in Houston, Texas, and is presented here with permission of Eric Metaxas. Here in Part 1, Tour explains some of the inventions coming out of Tour's Rice University lab, including molecular cars and astonishing graphene Read More › Source
In this episode, Xavier Bonilla has a dialogue with Joseph Graves Jr. about his life experiences and research in evolutionary biology. They talk about why he wrote his most recent book as half memoir/half popular science book, his early beginnings in the Jim Crow South, and how he became interested in the biological sciences. They talk about his work on Drosophila and broader research areas in evolutionary biology, his work on race and IQ, and many other topics.Joseph Graves Jr. is an evolutionary biologist and Professor of Nanoengineering at North Carolina A&T State University. He has his BA in Biology from Oberlin College and his PhD from Wayne State University. He has studied the evolutionary theory of aging and race and IQ. He is the author of the most recent book, Voice In The Wilderness. You can find his work here. Twitter: @gravesjl55 This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit convergingdialogues.substack.com
James Mitchell Tour is a chemist and nanotechnologist and is the T.T. and W.F. Chao Professor of Chemistry, Comp. Sci., Materials Science & NanoEngineering, at Rice University in Houston, Texas. He conducts research at the Smalley-Curl Institute & NanoCarbon Center. Tour has about 650 research publications and over 200 patents, and is one of the most cited scientists in the world. He was inducted into the National Academy of Inventors in 2015. Tour was named among “The 50 Most Influential Scientists in the World Today” by TheBestSchools.org in 2014; was elected Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), 2009. Tour was ranked one of the Top 10 chemists in the world over the past decade, by a 2009 Thomson Reuters survey. He won the Feynman Prize in Experimental Nanotechnology in 2008, the NASA Space Act Award in 2008 for his development of carbon nanotube reinforced elastomers. www.jmtour.com www.drjamestour.com www.youtube.com/drjamestour twitter.com/drjamestour Dr. Tour's Lecture on the "False Science" Behind Origin of Life Research: https://youtu.be/v36_v4hsB-Y His Graphene Company: www.universalmatter.com Connect with me:
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In this episode of the “Nano Matters” podcast, Tod Pascal, Assistant Professor of NanoEngineering and Chemical Engineering at the University of California, San Diego, discusses his work on improving the performance of batteries by using various nanomaterials. If you would like to learn more about nanotechnology, go to nano.gov or email us at info@nnco.nano.gov. Closed captioning is provided on our YouTube channel. For this episode, go to: https://youtu.be/jUcrci3VvOU CREDITS Special thanks to: Tod PascalUniversity of California, San Diego Produced by:Andrew Pomeroy Music: Inspirational Outlook by Scott Holmes https://freemusicarchive.org/music/Sc...https://creativecommons.org/licenses/... Any opinions, findings, conclusions, or recommendations expressed in this podcast are those of the guest and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Nanotechnology Coordination Office or United States Government. Additionally, mention of trade names or commercial products does not constitute endorsement or recommendation by any of the aforementioned parties. Any mention of commercial products, processes, or services cannot be construed as an endorsement or recommendation.
For more details, visit the #DrGPCR Podcast Episode #76 page https://www.drgpcr.com/episode-76-with-Steve-McCloskey/ ------------------------------------------- About Steve McCloskey Steve McCloskey is an Alumni from the first class of Nanoengineering at the University of California, San Diego. Steve's work is focused on emerging technologies applied to Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM). During his time at UC San Diego Steve worked directly with the founding Chair of the Nanoengineering Department, Ken Vecchio helping set the foundation for the Nanoengineering Materials Research Center and developing thermodynamic processing methods for Iron-based Superelastic alloys. After graduating from UCSD he founded Nanome Inc to build Virtual Reality solutions for Scientists and Engineers working at the nanoscale, specifically protein engineering and small molecule drug development. Steve McCloskey on the web Website LinkedIn Twitter ResearchGate Medium Orchid ------------------------------------------- Become a #DrGPCR Ecosystem Member ------------------------------------------- Imagine a world in which the vast majority of us are healthy. The #DrGPCR Ecosystem is all about dynamic interactions between us who are working towards exploiting the druggability of #GPCR's. We aspire to provide opportunities to connect, share, form trusting partnerships, grow, and thrive together. To build our #GPCR Ecosystem, we created various enabling outlets. Individuals Organizations ------------------------------------------- Are you a #GPCR professional? Subscribe to #DrGPCR Monthly Newsletter Listen and subscribe to #DrGPCR Podcasts Listen and watch GPCR focused scientific talks at #VirtualCafe
In this episode of the “Nano Matters” podcast, Sherine Obare, the Dean of the Joint School of Nanoscience and Nanoengineering at the North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University and the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, discusses her work using nanomaterials to develop highly sensitive sensors that detect contaminants in the environment. If you would like to learn more about nanotechnology, go to nano.gov or email us at info@nnco.nano.gov. Closed captioning is provided on our YouTube channel. For this episode, go to: https://youtu.be/2Qa-QHhxGMw CREDITS Special thanks to: Sherine ObareNorth Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University and the University of North Carolina at Greensboro Produced by:Andrew Pomeroy Music: Inspirational Outlook by Scott Holmes https://freemusicarchive.org/music/Sc...https://creativecommons.org/licenses/... Any opinions, findings, conclusions, or recommendations expressed in this podcast are those of the guest and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Nanotechnology Coordination Office or United States Government. Additionally, mention of trade names or commercial products does not constitute endorsement or recommendation by any of the aforementioned parties. Any mention of commercial products, processes, or services cannot be construed as an endorsement or recommendation.
In this episode, I sat down with my colleague, Prof. Tod A. Pascal, of the Department of NanoEngineering and Chemical Engineering at UC San Diego. Tod developed an interest in computational materials science at a young age while growing up on the island of Grenada in the Caribbean. During his schooling, he spent significant time in Houston, New York, Philadelphia, Pasadena, South Korea, Japan, and Berkeley, before starting his lab at UCSD. In our wide-ranging discussion, we talk about how he became a computational materials scientist, what it was like to do research in such varied environments, and how computation can be used to expand access to technical education in underserved communities.
Nanoengineering professor & podcaster Dr. Darren Lipomi Dr. Darren Lipomi is a professor in nanoengineering, studying the areas of soft electronics for solar cells, biosensors, and artificial touch. He's also a podcaster and has a YouTube channel, addressing topics related to STEM in academia. We chatted about his journey to becoming a professor, his research, and the ways in which public speaking has benefited his career. __ TEACH THE GEEK teachthegeek.com anchor.fm/teachthegeek youtube.teachthegeek.com @teachthegeek (FB, Twitter) @_teachthegeek_ (IG, TikTok) --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app
(0:57) - Tiny ‘Skyscrapers' Help Bacteria With Photosynthesis(12:37) - New Manufacturing Technique For 3D Nanostructures
In this episode of the “Stories from the NNI” podcast, Tod Pascal, Assistant Professor of NanoEngineering and Chemical Engineering at the University of California, San Diego, discusses the role of nanotechnology in addressing big societal challenges. If you would like to learn more about nanotechnology, go to nano.gov or email us at info@nnco.nano.gov. Closed captioning is provided on our YouTube channel. For this episode, go to: https://youtu.be/LVqJFO6UYsw CREDITS Special thanks to: Tod PascalUniversity of California, San Diego Produced by:Andrew Pomeroy Music: Inspirational Outlook by Scott Holmes https://freemusicarchive.org/music/Sc...https://creativecommons.org/licenses/... Any opinions, findings, conclusions, or recommendations expressed in this podcast are those of the guest and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Nanotechnology Coordination Office or United States Government. Additionally, mention of trade names or commercial products does not constitute endorsement or recommendation by any of the aforementioned parties. Any mention of commercial products, processes, or services cannot be construed as an endorsement or recommendation.
In this episode of the “Stories from the NNI” podcast, Sherine Obare, the Dean of the Joint School of Nanoscience and Nanoengineering at the North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University and the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, discusses her work developing sensors to detect environmental pollutants. If you would like to learn more about nanotechnology, go to nano.gov or email us at info@nnco.nano.gov. Closed captioning is provided on our YouTube channel. For this episode, go to: https://youtu.be/QYwBrL0631M CREDITS Special thanks to: Sherine ObareNorth Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University and University of North Carolina at Greensboro Produced by:Andrew Pomeroy Music: Inspirational Outlook by Scott Holmes https://freemusicarchive.org/music/Sc...https://creativecommons.org/licenses/... Any opinions, findings, conclusions, or recommendations expressed in this podcast are those of the guest and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Nanotechnology Coordination Office or United States Government. Additionally, mention of trade names or commercial products does not constitute endorsement or recommendation by any of the aforementioned parties. Any mention of commercial products, processes, or services cannot be construed as an endorsement or recommendation.
Steve McCloskey is an Alumni from the first class of Nanoengineering at the University of California, San Diego. Steve's work is focused on emerging technologies applied to Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM). During his time at UC San Diego Steve worked directly with the founding Chair of the Nanoengineering Department, Ken Vecchio helping set the foundation for the Nanoengineering Materials Research Center and developing thermodynamic processing methods for Iron-based Super-elastic alloys. After graduating from UCSD he founded Nanome Inc to build Virtual Reality solutions for Scientists and Engineers working at the nanoscale, specifically protein engineering and small molecule drug development.
Host: Alan S. Brown, MD, FACC, FAHA, FNLA Guest: Sheng Xu, PhD Sheng Xu, Professor of Nanoengineering, Bioengineering, Computer and Electrical Engineering at the UC San Diego Jacobs School of Engineering, meets with Dr. Alan Brown to discuss his innovative technology to change the way we predict cardiovascular risks.
This episode features an interview with Dr. Roy Schwartzman. Dr. Roy Schwartzman is a Professor in the Department of Communication Studies at the University of North Carolina, Greensboro. He serves as a faculty affiliate with the Department of Peace and Conflict Studies; the Joint School of Nanoscience and Nanoengineering; and the Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Program at UNCG. Author of more than 150 scholarly articles/chapters and 350 poetry publications, he has won more than 20 research awards and 60 literary awards. He is Principal Investigator of Cultivate Resilient Communities, the grant that established UNCG as the inaugural NCA Center for Communication, Community Collaboration, and Change.. He is the founding administrator of the Facebook mega-group Pandemic Pedagogy and has been named a Facebook Power Administrator. For more information on The Big Rhetorical Podcast visit thebigrhetoricalpodcast.weebly.com.
Nanoengineering technology is being developed to bring you wearable Biosensors that will make it possible for your body, your smartphone and your tela physician to make real time diagnoses resulting in a better and longer life..Watch to get an understanding of what is about to happen in the stock market:5 movies that explain what caused the 2009 financial crisis, and what happened after:The Big Short (2015)Margin Call (2011)Too Big to Fail (2011)99 Homes (2014)Inside Job (2010)Read these books to build your knowledge on how the markets work and what the future is going to look like.RECOMMENDED BOOKS (Affiliate Links)1. The Accidental Super Power by Peter Zeihan: https://amzn.to/3dEl9tL2. The Big Nine by Amy Webb: https://amzn.to/2yOJmPe3. The Code Breaker, Jennifer Doudna, Gene Editing, and the Future of the Human Race by Walter Isaacson. https://amzn.to/2WNi6wfLink to our Discord: https://discord.io/bestofusThe Power of a Tribe: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B096TWBDM3/...Get Surfshark VPN at https://surfshark.deals/INVESTORS and enter promo code INVESTORS for 83% off and 3 extra months for free! Help Kerry and Nita win the race against Childhood Cancer and keep their daughter Shay's memory alive. Your support makes a direct impact in the fight against Pediatric Cancer at Children's of Alabama by helping advance research in finding a cure for cancer. http://give.childrensal.org/bestofus
(1:00) - Biomedical Engineers Grow 3D Bioprinted Blood Vessel: Do you ever read about a groundbreaking new drug and then wonder why it never actually becomes available to the general public? Well, a group of Texas A&M researchers plan to address that by mimicking human biology using functional 3D printed blood vessels. (9:10) - 3D Printed Eardrum Graft: Eardrum damage is difficult to address with most treatments being intensive, expensive, and ineffective. To address this problem, researchers developed a 3D printed eardrum graft that can be implanted via a non-invasive procedure and return full functionality. About the podcast:Every day, some of the most innovative universities, companies, and individual technology developers share their knowledge on Wevolver. To ensure we can also provide this knowledge for the growing group of podcast listeners, we started a collaboration with two young engineers, Daniel Scott Mitchell & Farbod Moghaddam who discuss the most interesting content in this podcast series. To learn more about this show, please visit the shows page. By following the page, you will get automatic updates by email when a new show is published.Be sure to give us a follow and review on Apple podcasts, Spotify, and most of your favorite podcast platforms!Take a few seconds to leave us a review. It really helps! https://apple.co/2RIsbZ2 if you do it and send us proof, we'll give you a shoutout on the show.
Take a few seconds to leave us a review. It really helps! https://apple.co/2RIsbZ2 if you do it and send us proof, we'll give you a shoutout on the show.(0:49) - Nanostructured Shields: MIT, CalTech, and ETH Zurich researchers have developed a new lightweight material capable of providing more stopping power than kevlar on a per mass basis. Furthermore, they were able to use the Buckingham-pi theorem - an analytical method used to measure how much material a meteor can excavate from a planet - to create a framework for assessing the impact absorption effectiveness of new nanostructured materials. (10:55) - Balloon Detection of Venus Earthquakes: Much of what we know about the inner workings of planet earth comes from our analysis of seismic activity but it's not that easy to do the same on other planets with inhospitable surface conditions like Venus. So how can we work around this problem? According to NASA JPL and some students from CalTech, balloons are the answer! The team was able to prove that weather balloons with barometers (instruments that gauge pressure differences) could detect earthquakes miles away. (16:00) - Increasing OLED Efficiency: OLED screens are becoming the standard for phones, TVs, and monitors; however, about 80% of the light produced by these screens actually ends up trapped inside the devices leading to drastic decreases in overall efficiency. Researchers from University of Michigan have found a way to liberate ~20% of the trapped light by making some modifications to the electrodes on either side of the light emitters and using an index-matching fluid to prevent light getting trapped by the outer glass layer.
Hello Soft Matter People! Welcome to another episode of The Soft Matter Show. Our today's guest is Dr. Darren Lipomi (https://www.lipomigroup.org/darren-lipomi). Darren is a Professor of Nanoengineering (https://ne.ucsd.edu/) at the University of California, San Diego. In this episode, Darren talked about the origin of the active learning platform he has developed using YouTube. Also, Darren shared his experience on developing his very own podcasting platform - The Molecular Podcasting (https://open.spotify.com/show/7MMkvxJIeNNfnTc3bHNgeE). Which is one of the podcast platforms that inspired me to create The Soft Matter Show. This episode also discusses the futuristic technologies Darren is developing with his team at The University of California San Diego. This episode is filled with a lot of fun segues and a video version of this conversation can be found on Darren Lipomi's YouTube Channel (https://www.youtube.com/user/djlipomi). Now let hear from Darren. Read more: Dr. Darren Lipomi https://www.lipomigroup.org/ E-mail: dlipomi@eng.ucsd.edu Amal Narayanan https://www.thesoftmattershow.com E-mail: amalnarayanan@thesoftmattershow.com
Darren Lipomi, Professor of Nanoengineering at UC San Diego Jacobs School of Engineering hosts a lively conversation with Ching W. Tang, who discovered the organic light emiting diode, or OLED which toady has become a ubiquitous energy saving component in too many devices to mention, from enormous display screens to mobile devices and more. Includes his Kyoto Prize acceptance address delivered in Kyoto on the occasion of his being honored with the prestigious award. Series: "Kyoto Prize Symposium" [Science] [Show ID: 36808]
Darren Lipomi, Professor of Nanoengineering at UC San Diego Jacobs School of Engineering hosts a lively conversation with Ching W. Tang, who discovered the organic light emitting diode, or OLED which toady has become a ubiquitous energy saving component in too many devices to mention, from enormous display screens to mobile devices and more. Includes his Kyoto Prize acceptance address delivered in Kyoto on the occasion of his being honored with the prestigious award. Series: "Kyoto Prize Symposium" [Science] [Show ID: 36808]
Darren Lipomi, Professor of Nanoengineering at UC San Diego Jacobs School of Engineering hosts a lively conversation with Ching W. Tang, who discovered the organic light emitting diode, or OLED which toady has become a ubiquitous energy saving component in too many devices to mention, from enormous display screens to mobile devices and more. Includes his Kyoto Prize acceptance address delivered in Kyoto on the occasion of his being honored with the prestigious award. Series: "Kyoto Prize Symposium" [Science] [Show ID: 36808]
Darren Lipomi, Professor of Nanoengineering at UC San Diego Jacobs School of Engineering hosts a lively conversation with Ching W. Tang, who discovered the organic light emitting diode, or OLED which toady has become a ubiquitous energy saving component in too many devices to mention, from enormous display screens to mobile devices and more. Includes his Kyoto Prize acceptance address delivered in Kyoto on the occasion of his being honored with the prestigious award. Series: "Kyoto Prize Symposium" [Science] [Show ID: 36808]
Darren Lipomi, Professor of Nanoengineering at UC San Diego Jacobs School of Engineering hosts a lively conversation with Ching W. Tang, who discovered the organic light emitting diode, or OLED which toady has become a ubiquitous energy saving component in too many devices to mention, from enormous display screens to mobile devices and more. Includes his Kyoto Prize acceptance address delivered in Kyoto on the occasion of his being honored with the prestigious award. Series: "Kyoto Prize Symposium" [Science] [Show ID: 36808]
Darren Lipomi, Professor of Nanoengineering at UC San Diego Jacobs School of Engineering hosts a lively conversation with Ching W. Tang, who discovered the organic light emitting diode, or OLED which toady has become a ubiquitous energy saving component in too many devices to mention, from enormous display screens to mobile devices and more. Includes his Kyoto Prize acceptance address delivered in Kyoto on the occasion of his being honored with the prestigious award. Series: "Kyoto Prize Symposium" [Science] [Show ID: 36808]
Joshua M. Pearce, Ph.D., is the Richard Witte Professor of Materials Science & Engineering, Professor of Electrical & Computer Engineering, and Director of the Michigan Tech Open Sustainability Technology (MOST) Lab at Michigan Technological University. He's also the Visiting Professor of Photovoltaics and Nanoengineering at the School of Electrical Engineering at Aalto University, Finland, and the author of Create, Share, and Save Money Using Open-Source Projects. His new book is a treasure trove of resources for anyone getting into 3D printing! How is this sustainable? Josh has figured out how to turn waste into high value products by using a plastic shredder for household plastic waste, and then he's built a recyclebot that turns that shredded plastic into filament for 3D printing. A 3D printer can also be paired with a portable solar panel and operated anywhere in the world, an exciting implication for places with intermittent or no electrical grid at all.
Dr. Nicole Steinmetz is well on her way in her mission to “push new frontiers in medicine and bio-nanotechnology through the design, development and testing of materials and biologics derived from plant viruses.” Plant viruses? Plant viruses. They’re non-infectious to humans. When injected into a tumor the immune system is alerted to their presence; finding no threat from the plant virus the immune cells fight the tumor instead. Dr. Steinmetz talks us through the technology she’s developed, explains how it can advance immunotherapy, and gives us a glimpse of how she and her team are applying this platform toward COVID-19 vaccine development. 1:52 – Nicole Steinmetz, PhD, Professor of NanoEngineering and Director of the Center for Nano-ImmunoEngineering at the University of California, San Diego 2:34 – What are nanoparticles? Why are they useful in medicine? 7:11 – The Ballad of the Ferrari and the Geo Storm 9:25 - How nanoparticles are useful in cancer diagnostic and therapeutic approaches 14:36 – Using plant viruses as nanotechnology (“They’re also naturally expert at the delivery of cargo” such as cancer therapeutics.) 20:40 – How her lab is using plant virus-based nanotechnologies to improve immunotherapy delivery 27:08 – How plant viruses nicely synergize with checkpoint therapies 31:04 – How nanotechnology has been applied to COVID-19 vaccine development 33:04 – The role her lab has played in developing COVID-19 vaccine candidates using plant viruses “that we could ship at room temperature around the world to people’s homes…You don’t even need to see a doctor; you can apply it like a bandage to get the vaccine.” 35:05 – On how this is a platform technology that could be used against the next strain, the next mutant, the next virus 36:28 – How support from the American Cancer Society has impacted her research 38:06 – Her message for cancer patients, survivors and their caregivers Stick around until the end for a few bonus questions on Baldeneysee, surfing, whales, and her favorite teacher growing up
Nanoengineering students peppered me with questions of all types, and I responded with my wisdom, such as it is. Identities of the questioners have been redacted. We covered the following topics. How did you know you wanted to be a scientist? Why chemistry in particular? How are you trying to generate an inclusive community in the classroom during Covid? What aspects of remote work would you keep once life returns to normal? Did you develop any “Covid hobbies”? Are you working from home or remote? You mentioned that you work while taking walks by dictating problem sets into your phone. How does that work? Why did you start the podcast? What are your most successful podcast episodes? What episodes do you have coming up? Do you have any particular goals for the podcast? Tell us about the book you want to write? What have you learned about being a professor that you didn't know before you started? Is there an opportunity cost to speaking with us now? How did you know you wanted to go into academia? Why did you enroll in the COVID vaccine trial? How do you come up with proposal ideas, especially as a student when you don't know much about the topic? How does your group come up with project ideas for graduate students? What skills should engineering students try to pick up before starting their jobs? What have you learned as a manager? How do you get good work out of a team? Is that a piano behind you? How did you become a fan of classic Star Trek?
In his second appearance on the podcast, Brandon Marin (BS, Chemical Engineering, USC; MS/PhD Chemical Engineering & Nanoengineering, UCSD) describes his role as an R&D engineer at Intel. I learned a lot from this very wide ranging interview.
Aliaksandr (Alex) Zaretski, PhD (UC San Diego, Nanoengineering, '16), is the Co-Founder and CTO of GrollTex, Inc., a leading supplier of graphene and other nanomaterials to the R&D market and developer of graphene-based electronic sensors. He has had a fascinating educational trajectory from studying linguistics in Belarus in the early 2000s to biomedical engineering and nanoengineering. He offers his insights here on entrepreneurship in the physical sciences, the importance of business training, how to raise $1 million in startup funding, and building a manufacturing site from scratch.
January 19. James Tour. James was already brilliant when he entered college. But he didn't know everything. He didn't know Christ, and the language of the Christians around him started out confusing, but he soon became intrigued. James is still brilliant. He is now a nanotechnologist and a Professor of Materials Science and NanoEngineering, and Professor of Computer Science. In 2008, James won the Feynman Prize in […] The post 1019 James Tour, US, Scientist first appeared on 365 Christian Men.
Interesting discussion with Darren Lipomi, a professor in the Department of NanoEngineering and Programs in Chemical Engineering and Materials Science at UC San Diego. In this episode, we discussed how To Design Smart Materials" How smart materials can be designed to achieve high mechanical performance with fast response time? What kind of nonlinearities we have to keep and remove for better performance? Should we get rid of the viscoelastic behavior in smart materials? Prof.Darren has started his podcast “Molecular Podcasting”, he is also doing informative Youtube videos handling the issues in academia ranging from the funding, handling grant rejections, soft skills, how to choose your Ph.D. supervisor which is very crucial to your academic career. I highly recommend listening to Prof.Darren's podcast on iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/molecular-podcasting-with-darren-lipomi/id1519830532
Thursday on Lake Effect : A former Milwaukee police officer shares his perspective on recent protests and police-community relations. Then, for our 5 Things To Do in Milwaukee segment we talk about the mass demonstrations transforming our city. Plus, our Bonus Bubbler Talk segment looks at how Black Wisconsinites are almost 7 times more likely to die from COVID-19 than their white neighbors. Guests: Pardeep Singh Kaleka, executive director of the Interfaith Conference of Greater Milwaukee Adam Carr, deputy editor for community engagement, Milwaukee Neighborhood News Service Joseph Graves, associate dean for research and professor of biological studies at the Joint School for Nanoscience and Nanoengineering
In this episode of Nano Matters, Nicole Steinmetz, Professor of Nanoengineering at the University of California, San Diego, discusses how she uses plant viruses to treat cancer. If you would like to learn more about nanotechnology, go to nano.gov or email us at info@nnco.nano.gov. Closed captioning is provided on our YouTube channel. For this episode go to: https://youtu.be/6sPfaSc7MJw CREDITS Special thanks to: Nicole SteinmetzUniversity of California, San Diego Music: Inspirational Outlook by Scott Holmes https://www.freemusicarchive.org/music/Scott_Holmes/Inspiring__Upbeat_Music/Scott_Holmes_-_Inspirational_Outlookhttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/legalcode Produced by: Mallory Hinks, Ph.D. AAAS S&T Policy Fellow at NNCO Any opinions, findings, conclusions, or recommendations expressed in this podcast are those of the guest and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Nanotechnology Coordination Office or United States Government. Additionally, mention of trade names or commercial products does not constitute endorsement or recommendation by any of the aforementioned parties. Any mention of commercial products, processes, or services cannot be construed as an endorsement or recommendation.
This conversation with Steve McCloskey is all about hacking the Coronavirus using online hacks and the Nanome Virtual Reality platform. He is an Alumni from the first class of Nanoengineering at the University of California, San Diego. Steve's work is focused on emerging technologies applied to Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM). After graduating from UCSD he founded Nanome Inc to build Virtual Reality solutions for Scientists and Engineers working at the nanoscale, specifically protein engineering and small molecule drug development. Steve is also a founder of the Matryx blockchain platform which provides a secure framework for collaborative design and development for STEM.
https://nanome.ai/ @StevenMcCloskey Steve McCloskey is an Alumni from the first class of Nanoengineering at the University of California, San Diego. Steve’s work is focused on emerging technologies applied to Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM). During his time at UC San Diego Steve worked directly with the founding Chair of the Nanoengineering Department, Ken Vecchio helping set the foundation for the Nanoengineering Materials Research Center and developing thermodynamic processing methods for Iron-based Superelastic alloys. After graduating from UCSD he founded Nanome Inc to build Virtual Reality solutions for Scientists and Engineers working at the nanoscale, specifically protein engineering and small molecule drug development. Steve is also a founder of the Matryx blockchain platform which provides a secure framework for collaborative design and development for STEM. Nanome is transforming how we interact with and understand science, creating a virtual world where users can experiment, design and learn at the nanoscale. We’re building an open platform to solve age-old problems of collaboration, incentivization and siloed information – creating a world with open access to science & technology. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Steve McCloskey is an Alumni from the first class of Nanoengineering at the University of California, San Diego. Steve’s work is focused on emerging technologies applied to Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM). During his time at UC San Diego Steve worked directly with the founding Chair of the Nanoengineering Department, Ken Vecchio helping set the foundation for the Nanoengineering Materials Research Center and developing thermodynamic processing methods for Iron-based Superelastic alloys. After graduating from UCSD he founded Nanome Inc to build Virtual Reality solutions for Scientists and Engineers working at the nanoscale, specifically protein engineering and small molecule drug development. Steve is also a founder of the Matryx blockchain platform which provides a secure framework for collaborative design and development for STEM. Nanome is transforming how we interact with and understand science, creating a virtual world where users can experiment, design and learn at the nanoscale. We’re building an open platform to solve age-old problems of collaboration, incentivization and siloed information – creating a world with open access to science & technology.
Turkey is attacking Kurds in northeastern Syria just days after US President Donald Trump announced he was pulling American soldiers out of the region. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan announced the start of military operations via Twitter, writing Turkey intends to prevent the creation of a terror corridor across its southern border. The Kurds in Syria were a key US ally in the fight against Daesh, and Trump's decision to withdraw troops was met with harsh criticism by leaders of both parties in Congress, who claimed the US was abandoning the Kurds. The US Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court ruled last year that an FBI surveillance program aimed at foreign suspects had violated American citizens' constitutional privacy rights, as the program collected personal information of both Americans and foreign suspects, such as email addresses and telephone numbers. The partially redacted ruling, which was revealed Tuesday and first reported by the Wall Street Journal, said that tens of thousands of searches the FBI conducted from 2017 to 2018 on raw intelligence databases were illegal.Montgomery, Alabama, has elected its first black mayor in the city's 200-year history. Montgomery County Probate Judge Steven Reed defeated TV station owner David Woods in the city's runoff election on Tuesday and is scheduled to be sworn into office next month. Unofficial results show Reed tallied about twice as many votes as his opponent. Are the tides changing, and what does this mean for other cities?GUESTS:Mnar Muhawesh — Founder, CEO and editor-in-chief of MintPress News, and also a regular speaker on responsible journalism, sexism, neo-conservativism within the media and journalism start-ups.John Kiriakou — Co-host of Loud and Clear on Sputnik News Radio.Douglass Sloan — Democratic strategist and principal at National Capital Strategy Group.Joseph L. Graves Jr. — American scientist and the associate dean for research and professor of biological studies at the Joint School for Nanoscience and Nanoengineering, which is jointly administered by North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University and UNC Greensboro.
Curtis Ewbank, a senior engineer at Boeing, filed an internal ethics complaint this year regarding the development of the company's 737 MAX jet, the New York Times reported Wednesday. He reportedly said that in an effort to cut costs, Boeing declined to add a safety system to the jet that Ewbank felt could have reduced the risks that contributed to two deadly 737 MAX crashes in 2018. The circumstances around this plane keep getting worse.While the US' private sector added more jobs in September than forecasts predicted, the pace of job growth flagged, and there are increasing indications that the labor market is tightening, according to a Wednesday report from ADP and Moody's Analytics. "Manufacturing activity is contracting across advanced economies, according to a raft of data released on Tuesday that pointed to the impact of US President Donald Trump's trade policies," the Financial Times reported. "Output this summer was lower than a year earlier across all 36 advanced economies and sentiment indicators show that it is the most geographically widespread manufacturing downturn for seven years. The global purchasing managers' index in September recorded its fifth month below the 50 mark, the level that divides expansion from contraction. That was the longest period that indicator has been so low since 2012." Are these blips of data outliers, or should we be paying attention to them as indicators of what's to come?A federal judge ruled in favor of Harvard University's race-conscious admissions process in a decision released Tuesday. Judge Allison Burroughs determined that although Harvard could benefit from implicit bias training for admissions officers, the court will not dismantle an admissions program “that passes constitutional muster, solely because it could do it better.” How are we to interpret this decision?A recent Common Dreams article titled "Warnings That Millions More Could Go Hungry as Trump Pushes $4.5 Billion in Food Benefit Cuts" is taking aim at Trump's attack on the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP). It states, "In its latest potentially devastating attack on the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, the Trump administration on Tuesday unveiled a proposal that would slash food stamps benefits by $4.5 billion over five years, a move analysts warned would increase hunger for millions of low-income families." The article further quotes Stacy Dean, vice president for food assistance policy at the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, who says: "The Trump administration describes its SNAP proposals as a means to 'modernize' SNAP, but they all would reduce benefits or eligibility. Americans struggling to put food on the table will be worse off if the administration's regulatory agenda for SNAP moves forward." GUESTS:Keith Mackey — President of Mackey International, an aviation consulting firm specializing in aviation safety, risk management, accident investigation, air carrier certification and safety/compliance audits. Linwood Tauheed — Associate professor of economics at the University of Missouri-Kansas City. Joseph L. Graves Jr. — American scientist and the associate dean for research and professor of biological studies at the Joint School for Nanoscience and Nanoengineering, which is jointly administered by North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University and UNC Greensboro.Ray Baker — Political analyst and host of the podcast Public Agenda.Rashid Nuri — Founder of the Truly Living Well Center for Natural Urban Agriculture (TLW). TLW is Atlanta's premier urban agricultural organization, growing tons of chemical-free, nutritious food, providing jobs and educating communities about food, nutrition and self-sufficiency. His new book is titled "Growing Out Loud: Journey of a Food Revolutionary."
The death toll now stands at 31 following two mass shootings in Texas and Ohio over the weekend. A gunman killed 22 people at an El Paso Walmart on Saturday, while in Dayton, nine people died, including the gunman's sister, in the city's poplar Oregon Entertainment District early Sunday morning. More than 50 people total were injured. The suspect in the El Paso shooting has been identified as 21-year-old Patrick Crusius. He's been charged with capital murder and could get the death penalty if convicted. The gunman in Dayton has been identified as 24-year-old Connor Betts and was killed by responding officers within 30 seconds of firing his first shots. US President Donald Trump spoke today on the issue but what did he really say? As we mourn for and focus on the El Paso death toll increasing to 22 and the nine people killed and 27 injured in Dayton, there were also a number of shootings in Chicago over the weekend. Gunfire across the city left seven people dead and another 52 people wounded. The weekend left Chicago police officers and city emergency rooms stretched to the limit. Mt. Sinai Hospital in Douglas Park was forced to go on bypass for several hours. Sunday night, an additional 50 officers were brought into the 10th District alone. What's going on in Chicago, and why is it continuously ignored?Pakistan has summoned Indian High Commissioner Ajai Bisaria to the Foreign Office in Islamabad after the Indian government revoked the special legal status granted to Jammu and Kashmir. What's behind this latest action? What does this really mean? GUESTS:Dr. Ajamu Baraka — Journalist, American political activist and former Green Party nominee for vice president of the United States in the 2016 election. Joseph L. Graves Jr. — American scientist and the associate dean for research and professor of biological studies at the Joint School for Nanoscience and Nanoengineering, which is jointly administered by North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University and UNC Greensboro. Abel Nunez — Executive director of the Central American Resource Center (CARECEN). Dr. Shantella Sherman — Historical researcher, technical writer, author of "In Search of Purity: Popular Eugenics & Racial Uplift Among New Negroes 1915-1935" and publisher of Acumen Magazine. Dr. Marvin Weinbaum — Scholar-in-residence and director of the Middle East Institute's Center for Pakistan and Afghanistan Studies.
Elon MuskがオーナーをつとめるNeuralinkがbioRxivに発表した論文と発表イベントの内容、Brain Machine Interfaceを含む脳情報関連技術の動向について話しました。Shownotes Neuralinkまとめ (Researchat’s Blog) … 今回の情報をブログにまとめました。こちらをご覧ください。 An integrated brain-machine interface platform with thousands of channels (BioRxiv) … Musk and Neuralink, bioRxiv 2019 今回のNeuralinkの発表とともに公開。メイン論文。科学研究論文というよりは企業が公開するホワイトペーパーという形態である。 The “sewing machine” for minimally invasive neural recording … Hanson et al. bioRxiv 2019 2019年の3月にUCSFから発表されていた論文。ラストオーサーのPhilip Sabesは現在NeuralinkのSenior Scientist。今回の発表の根幹を担う技術についてかなり詳しく述べられている。発表時にNeuralinkとの関係は示されていない。 Neuralink Launch Event … Neuralinkの発表。Elon Mask-> Max Hodak-> Matt Mcdougall -> Vanessa Tolosa-> DJ Seo -> Philip Sabes -> 質疑応答 (発表内での順番) Neuralink Elon Musk … シリアルアントレプレナー BMI (Brain Machine Interface:ブレイン・マシン・インタフェース)…他にもBrain Computer Interface(BCI)、Direct Neural Interface、Mind Machine Interface(MMI)などとも呼ばれるケースもある。 情報通信海外技術動向(NICT)…国立研究開発法人情報通信開発機構(NICT)がまとめている各種報告書。 米国における脳情報関連技術に関する研究開発動向…米国におけるBMI関連技術の報告書。国家の取り組みとベンチャー企業Neuralink,FaceBook,Kernelについてまとめられている。 脳関連情報技術の研究開発動向最終報告書…今回は取り上げなかったが、欧州における脳関連技術についてまとめられている。 BMIの市場(Grand View Research) BMIの市場(Allied Market Research) State-of-the-art MEMS and microsystem tools for brain research…Microsystems & Nanoengineering誌のレビュー論文。 BrainGate System (Youtube video) LUKE Arm (Youtube video) Editorial notes 我々は近い将来、脳に刺さったデバイスを通じて意識よりも高速にコミュニケーションする未来が見えた(soh) 欧州の動向についても触れておくべきでした。shownoteにリンク(NITC)を貼っておきました。(coela) Neuron Muskのファンボーイとして頑張っていきます。(tadasu)
In this episode of Stories from the NNI, Dr. Lisa Friedersdorf (Director of the NNCO) speaks with Dan Herr (Professor & Nanoscience Department Chair at the Joint School for Nanoscience and Nanoengineering) about his personal nanotechnology journey, his experience in the semiconductor industry, and his recent work on biomimetic materials and bioinspired systems and processes. If you would like to learn more about nanotechnology, go to nano.gov or email us at info@nnco.nano.gov. Closed captioning is provided on our YouTube channel. For this episode go to: https://youtu.be/qT3k51Hae2M CREDITS Special thanks to: Professor Dan Herr Joint School of Nanoscience and Nanoengineering Music: Corporate Uplifting by Scott Holmes http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Scott_Holmes/Corporate__Motivational_Music/Corporate_Uplifting_1985 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/legalcode Produced by: Dr. Mallory Hinks AAAS S&T Policy Fellow at NNCO Any opinions, findings, conclusions, or recommendations expressed in this podcast are those of the guest and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Nanotechnology Coordination Office or United States Government. Additionally, mention of trade names or commercial products does not constitute endorsement or recommendation by any of the aforementioned parties. Any mention of commercial products, processes, or services cannot be construed as an endorsement or recommendation.
The Michigan Attorney General's Office announced today that it has dismissed all pending criminal cases connected to the Flint water crisis that were brought by the former Office of Special Counsel. It is important to note that the cases are being dropped without prejudice, and that charges could be brought against the defendants again. What does this mean going forward? The UK home secretary has signed an extradition order allowing WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange to be extradited to the US, where he faces charges of conspiring to hack government computers and violating espionage law. Sajid Javid announced Thursday that he had formally agreed to the request, which was received from the US Justice Department this week. “He [Assange] is rightly behind bars,” Javid told the BBC. “There is an extradition request from the US that is before the courts tomorrow, but yesterday I signed the extradition order and certified it, and that will be going in front of the courts tomorrow.” What does this mean for Assange and the process in London?Law-enforcement officials in Memphis, Tennessee, were on high alert following a clash between police and protesters Wednesday night after US Marshals fatally shot a man they were pursuing. The deceased has been identified as 20-year-old Brandon Webber, Shelby County Commissioner Tami Sawyer said on Twitter. She said he was shot 16 to 20 times in his family's front yard. Memphis Mayor Jim Strickland said that six officers were taken to the hospital, and two journalists were injured.Two petrochemical tankers in the Gulf of Oman came under suspected attack early Thursday amid soaring tensions between the United States and Iran. One of two, a tanker owned by the Japanese shipping company Kokuka Sangyo, was targeted just as Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe was wrapping up a high-stakes visit to Tehran to help cool hostilities in the region and potentially mediate US-Iran talks. It was hit twice over a period of three hours Thursday morning, Kokuka Sangyo President Yutaka Katada told reporters in Tokyo. How much of this should we question, and how much should we take at face value?In a recent MintPress News article, writer Whitney Webb reports, "With nearly 6 million Americans unemployed and regular bouts of layoffs in the US tech industry, major American tech companies like Google, Microsoft and Intel Corporation are nonetheless moving key operations, billions in investments, and thousands of jobs to Israel — a trend that has largely escaped media attention or concern from even 'America first' politicians. The fact that this massive transfer of investment and jobs has been so overlooked is particularly striking given that it is largely the work of a single leading neoconservative Republican donor who has given millions of dollars to President Donald Trump." What's going on here? GUESTS:Julie Hurwitz — Civil rights attorney and partner at the law firm Goodman, Hurwitz and James. Jim Kavanagh — Political analyst and commentator and editor of The Polemicist. Daniel Lazare — Journalist and author of three books: "The Frozen Republic," "The Velvet Coup" and "America's Undeclared War." Joseph L. Graves Jr. — American scientist and the associate dean for research and professor of biological studies at the Joint School for Nanoscience and Nanoengineering, which is jointly administered by North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University and UNC Greensboro. Whitney Webb — Staff Writer at MintPress News.
A decade of tax records from US President Donald Trump, obtained by the New York Times and running from 1985 to 1994, has Democrats asking for more. Congressman Brad Sherman (D-CA), a certified public accountant, says the New York Times story only shows a snapshot of the president's finances. And while the report details more than a billion dollars in losses, Sherman says much of that could be from real estate depreciation. The California Democrat wants to get the full tax returns so he can see what the Trump businesses were reporting to the IRS. The House Judiciary Committee will consider contempt of Congress citations for Attorney General Bill Barr and the Justice Department Wednesday morning. The department has refused to honor a subpoena to give the committee the full, redacted final report from Special Counsel Robert Mueller. The subpoena also demands access to all underlying evidence in the report. If the Democratic-led committee decides that contempt citations are in order, the matter will be referred to the full House. [EDITOR'S NOTE: The committee voted this afternoon to hold Barr in contempt, so the resolution will now have to go to the House as a whole. Not sure if you want to change this paragraph in light of that development.] Iran says it will no longer fully comply with the nuclear deal it signed with the US and five other nations. Wednesday's announcement comes one year after President Trump pulled the US out of the agreement. Iran's Supreme National Security Council said in a statement the Islamic Republic will no longer abide by limits on keeping enriched uranium and heavy water reserves. Iran says the other nations that signed the 2015 agreement - Britain, Germany, China, Russia and France - now have 60 days to ease restrictions on its banking and oil industries. The Trump administration is currently working to block all of Iran's oil exports.One student died, and eight classmates were wounded Tuesday in a shooting at a suburban Denver, Colorado, school, law enforcement authorities said, less than a month after the region marked the 20th anniversary of the Columbine High School massacre. The student who died was a senior who was expected to graduate in just three days, officials said. He died at the school. The Denver region was on edge as the 20th anniversary of Columbine was memorialized, and deadly threats were called into other Denver-area schools. What does this say about the culture of violence in America, and why are we not addressing the culture of white mass shootings?Confederate and other historic markers would be protected from local regulators under a bill passed Tuesday by the Texas Senate. The legislation reduces the power of local governments, state agencies and public universities to remove or change monuments honoring historically significant events or people, including Johnny Reb. The bill would require a two-thirds vote of both the state House and Senate to remove, change, or relocate a monument 25 or more years old on state property or a public university campus. The measure protects statues, portraits, plaques and place names. The bill now goes to the Texas House. GUESTS: Dr. Jack Rasmus — Professor of economics at Saint Mary's College of California and author of "Central Bankers at the End of Their Ropes: Monetary Policy and the Coming Depression." Daniel Lazare — Journalist and author of three books: "The Frozen Republic," "The Velvet Coup" and "America's Undeclared War." Ambassador Seyed Hossein Mousavian — Iranian policymaker and scholar who served on Iran's nuclear diplomacy team in negotiations with the EU and the International Atomic Energy Agency. Dr. Shantella Sherman — Historical researcher, technical writer, author of "In Search of Purity: Popular Eugenics & Racial Uplift Among New Negroes 1915-1935" and publisher of Acumen Magazine. Joseph L. Graves Jr. — American scientist and the associate dean for research and professor of biological studies at the Joint School for Nanoscience and Nanoengineering, which is jointly administered by North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University and UNC Greensboro.
In this special 15-year anniversary episode of Stories from the NNI, Dr. Lisa Friedersdorf, Director of the NNCO, talks with Jennifer Miller, an undergraduate Nanoengineering and Materials Science student at UCSD, about getting started in nanotechnology, capitalizing on opportunities, and building transferable skills for your career while in college. Closed captioning provided on our YouTube channel. Find this episode at: https://youtu.be/otT9pfoGvnE CREDITS Special thanks to: Jennifer Miller UCSD Music: Corporate Uplifting by Scott Holmes http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Scott_Holmes/Corporate__Motivational_Music/Corporate_Uplifting_1985 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/legalcode Produced by: Dr. Mallory Hinks AAAS S&T Policy Fellow at NNCO Any opinions, findings, conclusions, or recommendations expressed in this podcast are those of the guest and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Nanotechnology Coordination Office or United States Government. Additionally, mention of trade names or commercial products does not constitute endorsement or recommendation by any of the aforementioned parties. Any mention of commercial products, processes, or services cannot be construed as an endorsement or recommenda
Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) apologized this afternoon for what many saw as anti-Semitic comments discussing links between AIPAC, as well as other Zionist lobbying efforts and money, and American policy output. She quote tweeted journalist and Intercept co-founding editor Glenn Greenwald, who said: "GOP Leader Kevin McCarthy threatens punishment for @IlhanMN and @RashidaTlaib over their criticisms of Israel. It's stunning how much time US political leaders spend defending a foreign nation even if it means attacking free speech rights of Americans," and she added that McCarthy's motives were “all about the Benjamins.” When people asked what she meant, Omar tweeted, “AIPAC,” referring to the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, an influential pro-Israel lobbying group that has spent millions sending lawmakers on visits to the Jewish nation over the years. What did Congresswoman Omar say or tweet, and was it anti-Semitic? A Virginia state legislator, Delegate Patrick A. Hope, who intended to begin impeachment proceedings against Lt. Gov. Justin Fairfax, backed off today after African-American lawmakers demanded there not be a rush to oust Mr. Fairfax, who is black, over accusations of sexual assault while the state's white governor and attorney general are refusing to resign after they admitted wearing blackface in their youth. This situation is getting more complex by the day. Mr. Hope circulated a resolution on Sunday that would have directed a House of Delegates committee to determine whether allegations of sexual assault against Mr. Fairfax by two women, Meredith Watson and Vanessa C. Tyson, “constitute conduct sufficient to provide grounds for impeachment.” He had said on Friday evening that he would introduce articles of impeachment today if Mr. Fairfax, a fellow Democrat who denies the allegations, had not resigned by then. Mr. Hope backed down after a Sunday night conference call among House Democrats turned heated, according to two Democrats directly familiar with the call who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss party matters. Mr. Hope said on Twitter on Monday that discussions with his colleagues had “led to additional conversations that need to take place before anything is filed.” Members of the Virginia Legislative Black Caucus, who have been agonizing over what to do regarding all three of the state's executives for over a week now, believe the claims against Mr. Fairfax should be litigated in a legal setting, not a political venue.Forty years ago today, Iranians engaged in a bloodless revolution. They overthrew Mohammed Reza Pahlavi, the Western-backed dictator, also known as the Shah. This made me reflect upon Mohammad Mosaddegh, the 35th prime minister of Iran, who held office from 1951 until 1953, when his government was overthrown in a coup d'état orchestrated by the United States' Central Intelligence Agency and the United Kingdom's MI6. Anglo-American oil companies did not like, among other things, that Mosaddegh was nationalizing Iranian oil and raising the price per barrel so that he could raise the standard of living for the average Iranian. Sounds a lot like what the US is doing in Venezuela. Is there a comparison between the US-backed coup in Iran and the US-backed coup in Venezuela?GUESTS:Talib Karim — Attorney and executive director of STEM4US. Dr. Shantella Sherman — Historical researcher, technical writer, author of In Search of Purity: Popular Eugenics & Racial Uplift Among New Negroes 1915-1935 and publisher of Acumen Magazine.Joseph L. Graves Jr. — American scientist and the associate dean for research and professor of biological studies at the Joint School for Nanoscience and Nanoengineering, which is jointly administered by North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University and UNC Greensboro.Dr. Kathie Stromile Golden — Associate vice president for academic affairs and director of international programs at Mississippi Valley State University in Itta Bena, where she previously served as director of the Delta Research and Cultural Institute. Executive director of the National Conference of Black Political Scientists and director of the Graduate Assistantship Program.Dr. Anthony Monteiro — Author, activist, DuBois Scholar and former professor in the African American Studies Department at Temple University.Phil Wilayto — Writer, speaker and organizer based in Richmond, Virginia. He is a founding member of the Defenders for Freedom, Justice & Equality, an all-volunteer community organization, and editor of the quarterly newspaper The Virginia Defender.
The Supreme Court took no action today on the Trump administration's plans to shut down a program that shields some 700,000 young undocumented immigrants from deportation. The court's inaction almost certainly means it will not hear the administration's challenge in its current term, which ends in June. The justices' next private conference to consider petitions seeking review is scheduled for February 15. Even were they to agree to hear the case then, it would not be argued until after the next term starts in October. What does this mean for DACA going forward? So, with the court's inaction today, are people celebrating, or is this just a positive step in a very long journey?Jailed Press TV anchor Marzieh Hashemi appeared in court in Washington, DC, last week before a grand jury. Her children were also called in to testify and were not allowed to speak with her. No charges have been filed. Her son Hossein Hashemi told the Associated Press that his mother would have been willing to cooperate with the FBI and did not need to be jailed as a material witness. He says no one in his family can fathom why she would be considered a material witness for federal investigators. What going on here?The Supreme Court on Tuesday revived the Trump administration's policy of barring most transgender people from serving in the military. In a brief, unsigned order, the justices temporarily allowed the ban to go into effect while cases challenging it move forward. The vote was 5 to 4, with the court's five conservative members in the majority and its four liberal members in dissent. What dose this mean for transgender Americans who want to serve in the military, and will there be a ripple effect into other sectors of American society?According to the New York Times, "When the Trump administration announced last month that it was lifting sanctions against a trio of companies controlled by an influential Russian oligarch, it cast the move as tough on Russia and on the oligarch, arguing that he had to make painful concessions to get the sanctions lifted. But a binding confidential document signed by both sides suggests that the agreement the administration negotiated with the companies controlled by the oligarch, Oleg V. Deripaska, may have been less punitive than advertised." What's going on here? What were the implications on aluminum prices as Trump's sanctions took effect?A crowd of teenagers surrounded a Native American elder and other activists and appeared to mock them after Friday's Indigenous Peoples March at the Lincoln Memorial. Covington Catholic High School in Kentucky is closing today over security concerns. Protests were originally planned for today outside of the school but were held outside the Diocese of Covington instead. Students from Covington were thrown into the national spotlight over the weekend when a video emerged of one student wearing a Make America Great Again hat facing off with Native American activist Nathan Phillips. Nick Sandmann, a junior at Covington Catholic High School, who said he is the student in the video, said he was trying to defuse a tense situation and denied insinuations that anyone in the crowd was acting out of racism or hatred. How did this story really unfold, and did the media stir up a provocative and sensational visual for a situation that proved to be more complex than originally described? GUEST:Carlos Castaneda — Attorney at Garcia & Garcia.Nargess Moballeghi — Freelance journalist and associate of Marzieh Hashemi's family.Evan Young — National president of the Transgender American Veterans Association.Daniel Lazare — Journalist and author of three books: The Frozen Republic, The Velvet Coup, and America's Undeclared War. Joseph L. Graves Jr. — American scientist and the associate dean for research and professor of biological studies at the Joint School for Nanoscience and Nanoengineering, which is jointly administered by North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University and UNC Greensboro.
Yesterday, during his Senate confirmation hearing for the position of US attorney general, William Barr was asked by Senator Amy Klobuchar, “If you're confirmed, will the Justice Department jail reporters for doing their jobs?” Well, it is now being reported that American-born Marzieh Hashemi, also known as Melanie Franklin, most famous for anchoring news programs and presenting shows for Press TV, was detained upon her arrival at St. Louis Lambert International Airport in St. Louis, Missouri, on Sunday, according to her family and friends. She was transferred by the FBI to a detention facility in Washington, DC. US officials have so far refused to provide any reasons for her apprehension, either to her or her family. At the time of this program, the FBI has not replied to Sputnik News' request for a statement on charges and her status. What's going on here?According to reports, four Americans were among 15 people killed today in a suicide bombing in northern Syria that was claimed by the Islamic State. The attack targeted a restaurant in the northern city of Manbij, where American soldiers and others would sometimes stop to eat during their patrols of the area. What does this tell us about the realities on the ground and US policy in the region? The House of Representatives has passed a resolution rejecting white nationalism and white supremacy in the wake of Representative Steve King's remarks. On Capitol Hill yesterday, House lawmakers voted overwhelmingly, 421 to one, in favor of the resolution. King attempted to defend himself on the House floor before voting in favor of the resolution. In an interview with the New York Times, the Iowa Republican said, "White nationalist, white supremacist, western civilization - how did that language become offensive?" House Republican leadership has rebuked his comments and stripped him of his committee assignments. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has suggested King find a new line of work. How much does race inform our politics? Also, a Nobel Prize-winning scientist who helped discover the DNA double helix is losing a number of honorary titles because of his views on race. The Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory says it is stripping former Director, President and Chancellor James Watson of his honors after comments he made in a new PBS documentary, "American Masters: Decoding Watson." The 90-year-old had already been fired from the lab in 2007 for claiming that black people are less intelligent, comments he retracted and apologized for. In the new film, Watson says his opinions on race and intelligence haven't changed and that blacks on average are less intelligent than whites because of genetics. How much does race inform our social and biological studies? GUEST:Nisa Muhammad - Former Press TV Host of American Dream.Akbar Muhammad - International representative of the Nation of Islam.Jeff Mackler - National secretary for Socialist Action.Dr. Shantella Sherman - Historical researcher and technical writer, author of In Search of Purity: Popular Eugenics & Racial Uplift Among New Negroes 1915-1935 and publisher of Acumen Magazine.Joseph L. Graves Jr. - American scientist and the associate dean for research and professor of biological studies at the Joint School for Nanoscience and Nanoengineering, which is jointly administered by North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University and UNC Greensboro.
In this episode, I speak with Srishty Dua who is pursuing her Masters in NanoEngineering from UCSD. Srishty talks about what is NanoEngineering and its importance. She also shares journey of her Bachelors (ENTC) Degree and her internship at IISC Bangalore and how she prepared for Masters in USA. If you wish to connect to Srishty Dua for any science related assistance please connect to her on Instagram- @srishtydua and Twitter- @srishty_dua Also, you can Contribute us on Patreon- www.patreon.com/sciencewithshweta Follow on Instagram-www.instagram.com/sciencewithshweta Follow on Twitter- twitter.com/sciencewshweta --------------------------ADVERTISEMENT--------------------------- Download Utter App & Use Our Promo Code- UTTER25 to avail 25% off on premium membership. --------------------- www.TheSouledStore.com coupons TSSSWS10 - Flat 10% off on a minimum purchase of Rs.499/- TSSSWS20 - Flat 20% off on a minimum purchase of Rs.999/- Thanks
Senator Cindy Hyde-Smith, a Mississippi Republican, won the special runoff election yesterday, defeating the Democratic candidate, Mike Espy, who was trying become the state's first black senator since Reconstruction. Hyde-Smith will serve out the final two years of Thad Cochran's term and make history as the first woman elected to Congress from Mississippi. This sets the Republican majority in the Senate chamber at 53 to 47 once the new Congress is sworn in, a net pickup of two seats. Do the results in Mississippi provide any additional information about the American political landscape? If so, what? House Democrats chose their leadership today. House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi carried the vote to be the Democrat nominee for House Speaker, the position she previously held from 2007 to 2011, the last time Democrats held a majority in the chamber. In the upcoming January vote, she must win the support of at least 218 House members. Earlier today, nine Democrats from the so-called Problem Solvers Caucus reached an agreement with Pelosi on rules reforms to advance bipartisan legislation. Those members will now support her bid for speaker. The phony left, represented by the likes of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, mouth the right words but then sign on to Pelosi and the rest of the discredited gang. Are Ocasio-Cortez and some of the others engaging in realpolitik or rolling over? Her connection to Bernie Sanders is tainted by his sheep dogging for the Democrats.Opponents of the war in Yemen have picked up momentum heading into a critical Senate vote today on the Yemen amendment, which would end US support for the Saudi-led coalition. In a procedural vote, the Senate voted 55-44 against a similar measure in March, with 10 Democrats voting against it. But five Republicans voted in favor at the time. What's brought about the change in the Senate? The chamber is likely to advance the resolution after several Republicans and Democrats today expressed frustration with the Trump administration for refusing to fully brief lawmakers on Saudi Arabia's war campaign and the killing of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi. Senators emerging from a closed-door briefing with Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and Defense Secretary Jim Mattis said they were furious the session did not also include CIA Director Gina Haspel, whom they want to question about the agency's high-confidence assessment that Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman orchestrated Khashoggi's murder. Supporters say the measure is a vital step toward Congress reasserting its authority on matters of war after years of ceding such decisions to the president. It would also rebuke Saudi Arabia for its conduct in Yemen – which has sparked what UN officials say is the world's worst humanitarian crisis and led to thousands of civilian deaths.GUESTS:Dr. Joseph Graves — American scientist who serves as associate dean for research and a professor of biological studies at the Joint School for Nanoscience and Nanoengineering, which is jointly administered by North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University and UNC Greensboro. He has also written two books that address myths and theories of race in American society. Graves has made appearances in six documentary films on these general topics. He has been a principal investigator on grants from the National Institute of Health, National Science Foundation and the Arizona Disease Research Commission. He was named by US Black Engineer Magazine and the Historically Black Colleges and Universities Council of Deans as one of the 2017 "Innovators of the Year."Gary Flowers — Host of The Gary Flowers Show on Radio 990 WREJ, former vice president for public policy for Reverend Jesse L. Jackson's Rainbow PUSH Coalition and former executive director and CEO of the Black Leadership Forum, Inc.Mac Hamilton — Executive Manager at STAND: The Student-led Movement to End Mass Atrocities.
General Motors announced today that it plans to idle five factories in North America and cut more than 14,000 blue-collar and salaried jobs in a bid to trim costs. The action follows similar job-cutting moves by Ford Motor Company in the face of slowing sales and a shift in consumer tastes, driven in part by low gasoline prices. And it drew fire from President Donald Trump, who vowed early in his term to increase auto-making jobs and brought pressure on the industry not to shift work to Mexico and overseas. Does this indicate anything about the US economy that President Trump has been heralding as the greatest of all time? The five GM plants will halt production next year, resulting in the layoffs of 3,300 production workers in the United States and about 3,000 in Canada. The company also aims to trim its salaried staff by 8,000. Does the 8K white-collar staff layoff indicate something in addition to the blue-collar layoffs?Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith brings the baggage of Mississippi and America into tomorrow's run-off election. President Trump is hosting two rallies for her today. They want to be sure that this one goes their way. Hyde-Smith, in paying homage to a supporter, is on record as having said if he invited her to a public hanging, she would be in the "front row." She also said laws that make it "just a little more difficult" for attendees of some of the state's universities to vote are a "great idea" in a video posted Thursday. “And then they remind me that there's a lot of liberal folks in those other schools who maybe we don't want to vote. Maybe we want to make it just a little more difficult. And I think that's a great idea," Hyde-Smith said. She also has issues about her relationship with Mississippi's Confederate and Jim Crow past. What signals does this send to you based on your research and experience?In the wake of some of the most powerful hurricanes on record and historic wildfires in California, the Trump administration's strategy on climate has been to try to bury its own scientific report on global warming. The Trump White House, which has defined itself by a willingness to dismiss scientific findings and propose its own facts, on Friday issued a scientific report that directly contradicts its own climate change policies. What's going here? The 1,656-page National Climate Assessment, which is required by Congress, is the most comprehensive scientific study to date detailing the effects of global warming on the United States economy, public health, coastlines and infrastructure. It describes in precise detail how the warming planet will wreak hundreds of billions of dollars of damage in coming decades. President Trump has often questioned or mocked the basic science of human-caused climate change and is now working aggressively to encourage the burning of coal and the increase of greenhouse gas pollution. Your thoughts first of all on the science behind the discussion of climate change or global warming.Mexico is planning to deport up to 500 migrants who stormed the US southern border yesterday. In a statement, the Mexican Interior Ministry said the group was rounded up after trying to cross the border "violently" and "illegally." Dozens of people, including women and children, were seen racing toward the border fence that separates the US and Mexico, even crossing through a sewage-filled river to get there. US border officers used tear gas against the group, which then retreated back away from the fence. The ministry said Sunday's actions did anything but help the migrants' objectives and could have led to a serious incident. Meanwhile, thousands of migrants remain in Tijuana with their hopes set on seeking asylum in the US. GUESTS:Dr. William Spriggs - Professor in, and former chair of, the Department of Economics at Howard University who also serves as chief economist to the AFL-CIO. In his role with the AFL-CIO, he chairs the Economic Policy Working Group for the Trade Union Advisory Committee to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development and serves on the board of the National Bureau of Economic Research.Dr. Joseph Graves - American scientist who serves as associate dean for research and a professor of biological studies at the Joint School for Nanoscience and Nanoengineering, which is jointly administered by North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University and UNC Greensboro. He has also written two books that address myths and theories of race in American society. Graves has made appearances in six documentary films on these general topics. He has been a principal investigator on grants from the National Institute of Health, National Science Foundation and the Arizona Disease Research Commission. He was named by US Black Engineer Magazine and the Historically Black Colleges and Universities Council of Deans as one of the 2017 “Innovators of the Year.”Corey Wiggins - Executive Director of the NAACP Mississippi State Conference, working to tackle poverty as well as advance racial justice and economic opportunity throughout the state. Manuel Garcia Jr. - Former physicist who writes out his analyses of physical or societal problems or interactions.Maru Mora-Villalpando - Nationally known immigrant-rights activist, co-founder of the Latinx organization Mijente and a community organizer with Northwest Detention Center Resistance.
Hello and welcome to another episode of the Enter VR podcast featuring Steve McClosky from Nanome VR. Join us for a discussion on VR, nanoengineering and the limits of technology! Show Notes 30: What is Nanome? What is Steve working on? 1:40 How did Steve reach the intersection between VR and Nanotechnology? 5:00 What is the current nanotechnology industry landscape. 11:00 What are the counterarguments of combining VR with nanotech? 15:00 What have been successful user acquisition strategies? 16:50 What is the grand vision for Nanome? 25:40 How do you minimize bad actors in a population of people with the ability to design materials at a nanoscale? 27:00 What are the limits of nanotechnology? 32:00 The most exciting trends in the vr industry for the next 6 months to 1 year. 42:00 The hype behind Neural link. 48:00 How to stay in touch with Steve Message hello@nanome.ai for an enterVR podcast discount! 49:40 Topics for the next conversation! Stay in touch with the links below: https://twitter.com/nanome_inc https://twitter.com/StevenMcCloskey https://nanome.ai/
Jungwoo Lee is a materials scientist and UC San Diego nanoengineering graduate student working to make better batteries in the Laboratory for Energy Storage and Converstion run by NanoEngineering professor Shirley Meng at the UC San Diego Jacobs School of Engineering. Lee is also a key member of a UC San Diego battery startup called South 8 Technologies. The team is commercializing breakthrough research led by Cyrus Rustomji (UC San Diego PhD ‘15) in Shirley Meng’s lab. The researchers’ advances in electrolyte chemistry enable lithium-ion batteries to run at temperatures as low as -60 degrees Celsius with excellent performance. For comparison, today’s lithium-ion batteries stop working at -20 degrees Celsius. The South 8 Technologies team aims to leverage their work to provide unique battery solutions for a variety of transportation, high-atmosphere, aerospace and defense applications.
NanoXpo: Showcasing the Real World Impact of Nanoengineering by UC San Diego Jacobs School of Engineering
James M. Tour, PhD, the T. T. and W. F. Chao Professor of Chemistry, Professor of Computer Science, Professor of Materials Science and NanoEngineering at Rice University’s Smalley Institute of Nanoscience and Technology
Dr. Jim Tour is the T.T. and W.F. Chao Professor of Chemistry, Professor of Computer Science, and Professor of Materials Science and NanoEngineering at Rice University. He is also the founder and principal of NanoJtech Consultants, LLC, which performs technology assessments for prospective investors. He received his B.S. in Chemistry from Syracuse University and his Ph.D. in Synthetic Organic and Organometallic Chemistry from Purdue University. Jim went on to conduct postdoctoral research at the University of Wisconsin and Stanford University. He served on the faculty of the University of South Carolina for 11 years before joining the faculty at Rice where he is today. Jim has received many awards and distinctions in his career. He was named among the 50 Most Influential Scientists in the World Today by TheBestSchools.org in 2014, among The World’s Most Influential Scientific Minds by Thomson Reuters ScienceWatch.com in 2014, and Scientist of the Year by R and D Magazine in 2013. Jim is the recipient of the NASA Space Act Award, Feynman Prize in Experimental Nanotechnology, the Houston Technology Center’s Nanotechnology Award, and the Purdue University Distinguished Alumni Award. He is also an elected Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Jim is here with us today to tell us all about his journey through life and science.
Rhiju Das presents the video game his laboratory uses to take advantage of crows-sourcing and use it to improve the scientific method. (October 31, 2012)
Nanoengineering moves from aerospace and oil fields to your kitchen table