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...away. "The idea that they are going to take over biological systems is absolutely silly," says Jim A. Thomas, a Royal Society University fellow who is researching molecular self-assembly, suggesting that even if self-replication were possible it's likely to be on a scale that's pretty harmless. A more realistic fear, at least for many who actually work in the field, is that unfounded panic could hold back important research. That's not good enough for Hope Shand, research director of ETC Group, a Canada-based social-advocacy organization that wants a global moratorium on nanotech research...
When I was a lad, I dreamed of running away to sea. It was a harmless enough fantasy for a kid living in middle-class suburban Houston, who was just as likely to become an astronaut as a sailor. When I grew up, I did go to sea?every now and then, aboard luxury cruise ships plying the Caribbean, the Mediterranean and the Aegean. Seven years ago I went on a South American cruise along the coast of Chile, through the Strait of Magellan and on to Buenos Aires. It was a spectacular voyage in many ways, but I swore...
Time it took local police to arrest Anthony Scholfield, a student at the University of Wisconsin, after he entered a basement window of a local apartment complex (as an officer looked on from the street) in what he claimed was a harmless “panty-raid?...
...says the filtering software threatens free speech by weeding out harmless sites—like ones promoting breast cancer awareness—along with offensive sites, without telling the consumer...
...thought it was a harmless joke and I should hope that Harvard should be able to take a harmless joke,” Johnson said...