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Fukushima Report Released

Last year as the Fukushima disaster was unfolding I wrote an article entitled Reports of a Fukushima Cover Up Abound, and I would like to follow up on this article by taking a look at The Official Report of the Fukushima Nuclear Accident Independent Investigation Committee. The report comes at a rather difficult and controversial ... Fukushima Report Released

Jonathan Hankins

Ripensare l’uomo nel XXI secolo – 4/4

Event: Ripensare l’uomo nel XXI secolo. Date: 2012 06 04 Time: 37 min. Place: Fondazione Giannino Bassetti, Milano, Italia. Language: Italiano. url Vimeo: http://vimeo.com/43673122 Report: Ripensare l’uomo nel XXI secolo. Seminario sul libro “Geni a nudo” (Codice Edizioni, 2012) di Helga Nowotny e Giuseppe Testa. Parte 4 di 4 Giuseppe Testa, Piero Bassetti, Adriano Pessina, ... Ripensare l’uomo nel XXI secolo – 4/4

Adriano Pessina
Carlo Modonesi
Gianluca Bocchi
Giuseppe Testa
Michele Di Francesco
Piero Bassetti

Ripensare l’uomo nel XXI secolo – 3/4

Event: Ripensare l’uomo nel XXI secolo. Date: 2012 06 04 Time: 40 min. Place: Fondazione Giannino Bassetti, Milano, Italia. Language: Italiano. url Vimeo: http://vimeo.com/43661926 Report: Ripensare l’uomo nel XXI secolo. Seminario sul libro “Geni a nudo” (Codice Edizioni, 2012) di Helga Nowotny e Giuseppe Testa. Parte 3 di 4 Margherita Fronte, Adriano Pessina, Francesco Samorè, ... Ripensare l’uomo nel XXI secolo – 3/4

Adriano Pessina
Francesco Samorè
Giuseppe Testa
Margherita Fronte

Ripensare l’uomo nel XXI secolo – 2/4

Event: Ripensare l’uomo nel XXI secolo. Date: 2012 06 04 Time: 47 min. Place: Fondazione Giannino Bassetti, Milano, Italia. Language: Italiano. url Vimeo: http://vimeo.com/43660433 Report: Ripensare l’uomo nel XXI secolo. Seminario sul libro “Geni a nudo” (Codice Edizioni, 2012) di Helga Nowotny e Giuseppe Testa. Parte 2 di 4 Gianluca Bocchi, Michele Di Francesco, Giuseppe ... Ripensare l’uomo nel XXI secolo – 2/4

Gianluca Bocchi
Giuseppe O. Longo
Michele Di Francesco
Sebastiano Maffettone

Ripensare l’uomo nel XXI secolo – 1/4

Event: Ripensare l’uomo nel XXI secolo. Date: 2012 06 04 Time: 41 min. Place: Fondazione Giannino Bassetti, Milano, Italia. Language: Italiano. url Vimeo: http://vimeo.com/43657997 Report: Ripensare l’uomo nel XXI secolo. Seminario sul libro “Geni a nudo” (Codice Edizioni, 2012) di Helga Nowotny e Giuseppe Testa. Parte 1 di 4 Piero Bassetti, Giuseppe Testa, Margherita Fronte ... Ripensare l’uomo nel XXI secolo – 1/4

Giuseppe Testa
Margherita Fronte
Piero Bassetti

Who’s Responsible?

Cristina Grasseni and The Bassetti Foundation at EASA The 2012 European Association of Social Anthropologists conference (EASA) takes place at Université Paris Nanterre in July of this year, and long time collaborator Cristina Grasseni will participate on a panel on behalf of the Bassetti Foundation, as part of an event entitled “Who’s Responsible?”. The panel ... Who’s Responsible?

Jonathan Hankins
Redazione FGB

Architecture and public science communication

The role of aesthetics and design in science and technology museum. by Patricia Ríos Cabello (PhD Candidate. Humanistic Studies. Instituto Tecnológico de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey, Campus Ciudad de México) There are several reasons ranging from the people and experts involved in the design process of a science and technology museum, to the design proposal ... Architecture and public science communication

Patricia Ríos Cabello

‘It feels like the right thing to do’: ethical perspectives of open science

by Ann Grand. Open science, an approach in which the entirety of an investigation – questions, raw data, methodologies, results, models, published outputs and more – is made available online, is a practice followed by a growing number of projects. Developed partly as a practical means to support multi-site and multi-national collaborations, it also embodies ... ‘It feels like the right thing to do’: ethical perspectives of open science

Ann Grand

Architectures for Life with 23andMe, a Report – part 3

(…continues from the previous entry). During the afternoon panel Sharon Terry of the Genetic Alliance explained her interest in creating partnerships between genetic databases in order to use the massive number of participants and wealth of genetic materials available but currently divided between different databases. She talked about the need to move the information about ... Architectures for Life with 23andMe, a Report – part 3

Jonathan Hankins

Architectures for Life with 23andMe, a Report – part 2

(…continues from the previous entry). On the following day the Harvard STS program hosted a workshop entitled Architectures for Life to continue the debate. Guests and speakers included many world leaders in the field of genetics including George Church of the Harvard and Wyss Institute, who took part in the opening panel of the day ... Architectures for Life with 23andMe, a Report – part 2

Jonathan Hankins

Architectures for Life with 23andMe, a Report – part 1

On the 17th of April I attended a lecture given by Anne Wojcicki, CEO of direct to consumer genetics company 23andMe. The event which was entitled “Deleterious Me: Whole Genome Sequencing, 23andMe, and the Crowd-Sourced Health Care Revolution” was part of the Science and Democracy lecture series, organized by Sheila Jasanoff at the John F ... Architectures for Life with 23andMe, a Report – part 1

Jonathan Hankins

Layers of Uncertainty

On Monday March 5th I attended the third Science Technology Policy Crossroads symposium at the Harvard University Science Centre. The symposium was entitled ‘Layers of Uncertainty: Conversations on the role of uncertainty in science and technology policy’, details are available from their website linked above. The key note speech was delivered by Rear Admiral Ali ... Layers of Uncertainty