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Richard P. Feynman
1965 Nobel Laureate in Physics for fundamental work in quantum electrodynamics, with deep-ploughing consequences for the physics of elementary particles.

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This web site is dedicated to Richard P. Feynman, scientist, teacher, raconteur, and musician. He assisted in the development of the atomic bomb, expanded the understanding of quantumelectrodynamics, translated Mayan hieroglyphics !!!!!!!!!

http://www.feynman.com/

"Physics is like sex. Sure, it may give some practical results, but that's not why we do it." - R. Feynman

I say "chain," but what I really mean is ``web''... or ``net.'' The relationships are so interwoven that it's hard to decide just where the story begins. This story is a net.

The principles of physics, as far as I can see, do not speak against the possibility of manoeuvring things atom by atom.

http://www.zyvex.com/nanotech/feynman.html

We are just beginning to understand how to use nanotechnology to build devices and machines that imitate the elegance and economy of nature...

http://www.zdnet.com.au/news/business/0,39023166,20267134,00.htm

Fatigue of nanostructures is one of the important issues that can affect the reliable operation of micro/nanoelectromechanical systems (MEMS/NEMS).

http://www.iop.org/EJ/abstract/-ffissn=0957-4484/-ff30=all/0957-4484/15/9/023

This nanoscale level of incursion into the ecology suggests emergence of an intelligent environment. Just as nature has its own "intelligence" that responds to environmental changes-for example, by transmitting genetic information that lets species adapt-so we are creating an intelligent, human-built environment not just alongside that, but as part of it. Such an intelligent environment is able to sense virtually every part of the ecology, from the epicenter of earthquakes to the heartbeat of every species, and then interpret what this means.

http://www.rednova.com/news/stories/2/2004/01/02/story104.html

Yet, this imbalance may shift. Molecular technologies are empowering us to find solutions that replicate natural processes at the molecular level. We may see energy grids based on solar "paint" that slashes the political and economic risks associated with fossil fuel infrastructures. Our drugs may be so precise that they backfire only occasionally instead of generating widespread immune responses as they do now.

This capacity to match nature's complexity constitutes the next big environmental revolution and may force us to redefine the boundaries of risk assessment.

What to Do

Environmental and risk-assessment organizations must begin to investigate newly understood natural phenomena that are being discovered through the use of new technology. For example, although nanoscale organisms have been identified in geological formations and in the human body since the late 1980s, few projects have examined the implications for human or natural ecology or for environmental chemistry. NASA is studying it, as are the universities of Texas, McGill (Canada), Regensburg (Germany), Kuopio (Finland), Melbourne (Australia), and others. Yet, few if any EPA or FEMA projects have taken advantage of such research. Nor do they examine newly discovered megascale anomalies such as the naturally induced climate flip of circa A.D. 536 or the giant tsunami that inundated the Pacific Northwest in 1700.

Such events would certainly disrupt natural ecosystems and human society if they recurred-and the evidence suggests that they will. Yet no EPA, FEMA, or environmentalist initiative examines how nanotechnologies might be used for adapting to them.

Due to the fundamental role of risk assessment in analyzing new technologies, we need to bring experts together to tackle the challenge of matching nature's complexity

http://www.rednova.com/news/stories/2/2004/01/02/story104.html

Sheldrake considers all this to be evidence that humans inhabit so-called morphic fields-a sort of extrasensory "projected consciousness" that's genetically programmed into us. It's as if we were mere amoebas, the world's simplest life form, which move around by sending out very thin "neural impulses" into the world, or bees that can find their hives even when blown far afield by a windstorm. "Recognition that our minds extend beyond our brains is liberating," Sheldrake writes. We are no longer "imprisoned within our skulls," alienated from our bodies or one another. "We are interconnected."

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/4615878/

http://www.sheldrake.org/

Awakenings (1973, rev. ed. 1990)
Paperback, Vintage Books--$14, ISBN 0-375-70405-1
The classic account of survivors of the encephalitic lethargica and their return to the world after decades of "sleep." This book was the inspiration for the 1990 film starring Robert De Niro and Robin Williams as Dr. Sacks.

http://www.oliversacks.com/writing.htm

The Mind Traveller brings a dynamic and extraordinary personality to television for the first time. With his wide ranging cultural and scientific knowledge, Oliver Sacks makes vivid and stirring the previously clinical science of neurology. As a magical story-teller, he invites the viewer into the previously inaccessible and strange worlds of neurological disorder, where he reveals to us - ourselves.

http://www.rosetta.co.uk/mind.htm

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