Win a free nano iPod...take the nano quizz!
- Jennifer Sass
- Senior Scientist, Washington, D.C.
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- Posted February 11, 2008 in Health and the Environment
For those of you that are regular readers of this blog, you will ace this 5-question quizz testing your nano knowledge....though all participants are entered for a chance to win a free nano iPod. The Woodrow Wilson Center Project on Emerging Nanotechnologies is hoping to gauge the public's knowledge about nanotechnology. You, my dears, are the public...so please let them know what you know. Also, check out their Nano 101 for more information. And, take advantage of the website's searchable inventories to see the almost 500 consumer products that already contain nanomaterials. Most importantly, stay tuned to this blog for more updates about the global progress to identify and understand the health risks that these nano-scale chemicals may pose to consumers, workers, wildlife, and ecosystems....with a push from NRDC and others to identify risks before this nano-genie is out of its bottle. Check out the NRDC website for podcasts, in-depth scientific review, or a quick overview on the risks and concerns with the widespread commercialization of nano-scale chemicals. And, stay tuned, stay safe, and don't eat the nano-silver!
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Dan Thompson — Feb 12 2008 02:20 PM
And nanotechnology includes nano energy as well as chemicals that quickly involves global climate change. Dan Lashof's 7 words to help the Earth closed comments before I got any response, as much as I tried. Its basis? That the hockey stick shaped graph of the warming might closely resemble one, in time frame and shape, to one of the development ind exploding increase in wireless communication whose NANO level energy frequencies activate, thus warm, just as those from the Sun, with no built in regular resting periods. Radio, data transmission, TV, remotes, satellites, internet, cell phones, sensors, trackers, locaters, GPS, CBs, pagers, exlpoding numbers of hand helds, etc. all create or utilize energy frequencies that keep the atmosphere and some surfaces in a constant state of NANO-movement, aka: warmth. Just think of all those communication energy pulses hitting your body right now. Your body isn't tuned to make you aware of them but they're there. But, as I said in Dan's blog...the denial would be fierce even in the science community, even more so that over the warming itself. But nature rules regardless of human opinion. Your view of this?
Dan Thompson — Feb 13 2008 11:05 AM
Does no one else read these items or do they just hesitate to consider a hot water bottle being involved in the climate change? One warmed by something far more than just inconvenient to deal with?
Dan Thompson — Feb 14 2008 10:50 AM
Jennifer Sass. Do you have any comment? Do you follow the comments on your blog?
Jennifer Sass — Feb 14 2008 11:31 AM
Thanks for your comments. Yes, i do definitely follow comments on my blog, and i do appreciate your thoughts. I tend to try to let the comments have their own space, without me responding. As for energy frequencies, climate change, and Dan's blog, I'd rather leave those responses to him. The nanomaterials that I blog about are chemical in nature, not energy. So, while your comments are a bit out of my field of expertise they are, i'm sure, of interest to the readers of this blog.
Valjean — Feb 14 2008 01:51 PM
Thanks for your reply. I felt like I had yelled at a cliff and no sound came back...from you or any other readers. Scientists, at least some, say matter and energy are the same thing. It's energy that creates the interplay between things, including what keeps them together as matter, including chemicals. To understand one you have to consider the other even though no one can be "expert" in all the factors. I have posted and emailed my thought many times to many in the field and not one has replied even to discount it as having no merit to consider further. It's as though it is a third rail to be avoided at all costs. Since you have an "in" with NRDC maybe you can get a reaction out of them. They have people "in the field". And I think the information would be beneficial to you field.
Jennifer Sass — Feb 14 2008 02:20 PM
I'll refer the appropriate NRDC scientists to this conversation for their interest. Thanks!
Valjean — Feb 14 2008 02:27 PM
Thank you. It will be interesting to read how they will deny such a connection, even if the wireless communication graph does track that of the warming. And I may be absolutely wrong but I think it's hazardous to ignore possible factors just because they would produce uncomfortable information if shown to be involved. You don't need to reply. Thanks again for your time and attention. I'm quite sure both are in short supply for your work.