Update on Charles Lieber (former Harvard professor) has been convicted
That was quick. Lieber went on trial Tuesday, December 14, 2021 and he was found guilty of two charges one week later on Tuesday, December 21, 2021. (You can see my December 20, 2021 posting for mention of the trial and a description of the events leading up to it.) As for the conviction, here’s more from a December 23, 2021 posting by Brian Liu and Raquel Leslie for the Law Fare blog (Note: Links have been removed), The Justice...
Ai-Da (robot artist) writes and performs poem honouring Dante’s 700th anniversary
Remarkable, eh? *ETA December 17, 2021 0910: I’m sorry about the big blank space and can’t figure out how to fix it.* Who is Ai-Da? Thank you to the contributor(s) of the Ai-Da (robot) Wikipedia entry (Note: Links have been removed), …Ai-Da was invented by gallerist Aidan Meller,[3] in collaboration with Engineered Arts, a Cornish robotics company.[4] Her drawing intelligence was developed by computer AI researchers at the...
True love with AI (artificial intelligence): The Nature of Things explores emotional and creative AI (long read)
The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation’s (CBC) science television series,The Nature of Things, which has been broadcast since November 1960, explored the world of emotional, empathic and creative artificial...
Lost Women of Science
Both an organization and a podcast series, Lost Women of Science is preparing for its second, third, and fourth podcasts seasons thanks to a grant announced in a November 19, 2021 Lost Women of Science news release (on Cision), Journalist and author Katie Hafner, and bioethicist Amy Scharf, today announced that the Lost Women of Science podcast series will continue for an additional three seasons thanks to a grant award of $446,760...
US President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST) meeting on Biomanufacturing, the Federal Science and Technology Workforce, and the National Nanotechnology Initiative
It’s been years since I’ve featured a PCAST meeting here; I just don’t stumble across the notices all that often anymore. Unfortunately, I got there late this time, It’s especially unfortunate as the meeting was on “Biomanufacturing, the Federal Science and Technology Workforce, and the National Nanotechnology Initiative.” Held on November 29, 2021, it was livestreamed. Happily, there’s already a video of the meeting (a...
INTER/her, a talk with Camille Baker about an immersive journey inside the female body on Friday, December 3, 2021
Before getting to the announcement, this talk and Q&A (question and answer) session is being co-hosted by ArtSci Salon at the Fields Institute for Research in Mathematical Sciences and the OCAD University/DMG Bodies in Play (BiP) initiative. For anyone curious about OCAD, it was the Ontario College of Art and Design and then in a very odd government/marketing (?) move, they added the word university. As for DMG, in their own words...
Nanomaterial shapes and forms affect passage through blood brain barrier (BBB)
I meant to get this published a lot sooner. There seems to be a lot of excitement about this research. I got an embargoed press release further in advance than usual and now the embargo is lifted, it’s everywhere except, at the time of this writing (0920 PDT July 6, 2021), on the publisher’s (Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences [PNAS]) website. A July 5, 2021 news item on Medical Express announces the...
Job at the Council of Canadian Academies (CCA); application deadline: December 15, 2021
The Council of Canadian Academies (CCA) is looking for a research associate. Before launching into the job description, here’s a little more about the CCA from their About page, The Council of Canadian Academies (CCA)...