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	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-16)
		Oberdörster hypothesized that fullerenes might follow similar pathways, and that because they are reactive with oxygen and attracted to lipids--both of which are components of oxidative reactions--they could cause oxidative damage in the brains of fish.
		Fullerenes are typically coated during the manufacturing process to reduce potential toxicity, and it is unknown how long the coating will persist when the molecules are exposed to the environment.
		With fullerenes and other nanomaterials likely to be used widely in the near future, she stresses that research efforts should be intensified in order to prevent the possibility of damage to human health and the environment.
	ehp.niehs.nih.gov /docs/2004/112-10/ss.html?section=environmental (1871 words)

	Wired News: Small Is Beautiful?
		Peabody, and the culture as a whole to a "cargo cult." The gatherings do have a strange but thrilling sociological aspect - sort of Mondo 2000 meets military-industrial complex - that mainstream scientific conventions unfortunately lack.
		But even as the rebuttals were appearing, a change in the players was occurring that would gain respectability for the field at the slightly sad cost of some of its fascination.
		Fullerenes are fundable, fundable, and sexy enough to plant the Center for Nanoscale Science and Technology at Rice University, which Smalley (insert joke here) heads.
	www.wired.com /news/culture/0,1284,7313,00.html (929 words)

	Encyclopedia Galactica - Bu to Bz - Human (Anglic) Revised 351st Edition
		They are a thriving civilization, almost completely indifferent to the concerns and actions of the greater culture in whose conduits, plumbing and dark corners they make their homes.
		These proved very popular as novelty units in some erotocratic polities, and these units managed better than some of their predecessors.
		Kaa Yvanti orbital habitat cluster and free-floating beanstalk.
	www.orionsarm.com /eg/b/Bu-Bz.html (1899 words)

	The View \| From the University of Vermont
		Buckyballs, or buckminster fullerenes, are hollow, cage-like carbon clusters discovered in 1985 and named after R. Buckminster Fuller, a maverick architect and engineer.
		In addition to his interest in Buckyballs and other fullerenes, Clougherty also has looked at carbon nanotubes, fullerene-derived structures with amazing strength and remarkable electronic properties.
		One factor that isn’t likely to change is the shortage of graduate students around the department — it’s a fundamental problem with a master’s-oriented program.
	www.uvm.edu /theview/article.php?id=25 (948 words)

	The R. Buckminster Fuller FAQ: Miscellany
		Fullerene is quite reactive and can be used as a building block in other structures.
		In fact, one way to purify fullerenes, to get just the fullerenes one needs, is heating them up to 700 C, which breaks up the crystal, and collecting the cooled soot from particular spots where it cools.
		Fullerenes with atoms or clusters of atoms inside, the so-called ``endohedral fullerenes,'' are presently extremely difficult to isolate in quantity and their properties are as yet poorly understood (no one yet knows, for example, if crystals of same will superconduct, as does K3C60 -- potassium atoms in all the interstices in a C60 crystal packing).
	www.cjfearnley.com /fuller-faq-6.html (11495 words)

	fiat lux seminars (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-16)
		Professor Hammond is a cultural anthropologist speciaized in the study of issues related to economic development in the former French and Portuguese colonies in Africa.
		He is a cultural and psychological anthropologist with interests in the cross-cultural study of mental health, illness, and healing and an advocate of person-centered ethnography.
		Adopting the perspective that popular culture serves to educate non-lawyers about legal issues, we will look at what is being taught and the effect of those teachings.
	www.college.ucla.edu /fiatlux/fall2003.htm (8725 words)

	Newsletter of the Molecular Manufacturing Shortcut Group of the National Space Society
		Fullerene fibers are so small they can only be seen with the most powerful microscopes.
		They have no confidence in the culture that nourished them, and in the words of British classicist Gilbert Murray, they have lost their nerve.
		In this case, the proper thing to do is to add their experiences, especially those of the First Americans, whose culture could not stand up to the white man’s efficiency in utilizing existing resources.
	www.islandone.org /MMSG/98jan.htm (5347 words)

	Print: The Chronicle: 9/10/2004: The Dark Side of Small
		Oberdörster was conducting the bass studies, she noticed that the tanks containing fullerenes had noticeably clearer water than did the control tanks.
		However, nobody has examined whether fullerenes could harm natural bacteria living in rivers and oceans if the particles were released in the environment, says Ms.
		In one scenario, the Rice center has estimated that tons of fullerenes packed into fuel cells could be arriving at people's homes within four to five years.
	chronicle.com /cgi2-bin/printable.cgi?article=http://chronicle.com/free/v51/i03/03a01201.htm (3204 words)

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		Among the cultural activities that have been arragned are visits to the Albaicín district and the Alhambra, and a dinner with Flamenco music and dancing.
		By 1860, beading was extremely popular and the Bohemian beads with their darker colors and bluish tinge were imported and traded to the Indians for their trade beadwork.
		Formal (mathematics) education is a process of cultural interaction, and every child and teacher may experience some degree of social and cultural conflict in that process.
	web.nmsu.edu /~pscott/isgem132.htm (4945 words)

	ScienceWeek
		Among other devices, nanotubes (and other fullerenes) can be used to encapsulate inclusion entities, the fullerene acting as a literal atomic- level cage, the confining cage allowing totally new kinds of observations to be made on the encapsulated entities.
		In human cells, insufficient levels of telomerase lead to telomere attrition with cell division in culture, and possibly lead to telomere attrition with ageing and tumorigenesis in vivo.
		In contrast, critical reduction in telomere length is not observed in the mouse owing to promiscuous telomerase expression and long telomeres in mouse chromosomes.
	scienceweek.com /2000/sw000922.htm (7478 words)

	Additional Reading (from Lewis F. Jr. Powell) -- Encyclopædia Britannica (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-16)
		In such societies written language is the chief means of transmitting culture and the benefits of civilization...
		Autobiography of this American scientist awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1996, for the discovery of fullerenes.
		John F. Kennedy is still considered one of the most popular U.S. presidents.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-92895 (746 words)

	Powell's Books - The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark by Carl Sagan
		Casting a wide net through history and culture, Sagan examines and authoritatively debunks such celebrated fallacies of the past as witchcraft, faith healing, demons, and UFOs.
		As Sagan demonstrates with lucid eloquence, the siren song of unreason is not just a cultural wrong turn but a dangerous plunge into darkness that threatens our most basic freedoms.
		Casting a wide net through history and culture, Sagan examines and authoritatively debunks modern pseudoscience, as well as such celebrated fallacies of the past as witchcraft, faith healing, demons, and UFOs.
	www.powells.com /cgi-bin/biblio/0345409469 (414 words)

	Candid Science: Conversations with Famous Chemists. By István Hargittai; edited by Magdolna Hargittai
		The subject matter discussed includes structural chemistry, medicinal chemistry, natural products, stereochemistry, theoretical and computational chemistry, inorganic chemistry, physical organic chemistry, NMR spectroscopy, kinetics and reaction mechanisms, early molecular mechanics, grants and research support, the increasing importance of instruments, the brain drain, and the politics of resonance theory and atmospheric chemistry.
		Almost a fifth of the book (95 pp) is devoted to one of the most fascinating discoveries of the second half of the twentieth century, the fullerenes.
		Also, several of the main participants in the fullerene story reveal the presence of animosity and jealousy.
	chemeducator.org /bibs/0007003/730184gk.htm (1557 words)

	(October, 2005) The 404 Reports: Information Missing From Your Daily News
		Missing from the article or Project item is mention that the researcher had to work hard to get the particles to mix with water, and that it was in a high concentration that we might associate with a toxic spill.
		As for the clearer water, a simpler explanation might be that the fullerenes helped particles settle to the bottom.
		Fullerenes -- also known as "buckminsterfullerenes," or "buckyballs" -- are just carbon, after all, and we rely on charcoal filters to clean water all the time.
	www.albionmonitor.com /0510a/0510a-404.html (4460 words)

	News Clips for July 24-26, 2004
		She based the warning on her study of the impact of fullerenes on the brains of largemouth bass in a fish tank.
		Discovered in the 1980s, fullerenes are the third known type of pure carbon molecules; the others are diamond and graphite.
		Fuller had nothing to do the discovery of fullerenes, but their soccer ball shape reminded the scientists of a two-sided version of his famous geodesic domes.
	www.ncsu.edu /news/dailyclips/0704/072604.htm (15175 words)

	Schreiner University - the latest news
		According to William Woods, Ph.D. director of the Center for Innovative Learning and the symposium director, “The academic study of popular culture is fascinating to active minds of all ages.
		Popular culture research studies the contemporary, the current, anything that affects most of us daily; it studies all the things we consume, all the things we are interested in and talk about with each other in the media, around the coffee table, in the office.
		William Sliva, professor of sciences and mathematics at the university, and over the years they have proven to be a popular event for stargazers of all ages.
	www.schreiner.edu /archives04.html (10086 words)

	Committee on the Origins and Evolution of Life (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-16)
		A popular science lecturer, Wheeler has received many awards for his teaching.
		LUANN BECKER is a research scientist in the Department of Geophysics and Planetary Science at the University of Hawaii.
		Dr. Becker is an organic geochemist who recently demonstrated that fullerenes are a new extraterrestrial form of carbon in meteorites.
	www4.nationalacademies.org /webcr.nsf/CommitteeDisplay/SSBX-L-99-09-A?OpenDocument (1606 words)

	Science/Physics/Conferences (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-16)
		The third international conference with the aim of promoting carbon science in the nano scale as, for example, fullerenes, nanotubes, nanowires, and sp3 forms.
		The SIGRAV Graduate School in Contemporary Relativity and Gravitational Physics is held annually at the Centre for Scientific Culture "Alessandro Volta", Villa Olmo, Como.
		It is primarily addressed to PhD students and young researchers in Physics and Mathematics who are interested in general relativity, astrophysics, experimental gravity and the quantum theories of gravitation.
	www.mywebdeals.com /dir/Science/Physics/Conferences (2034 words)

	Jef Allbright's blog \| Jef's web files (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-16)
		His most popular and best selling books include "Hyperspace: A Scientific Odyssey Through Parallel Universes, Time Warps and the Tenth Dimension" and "Visions: How Science Will Revolutionize the 21st Century", which have been widely translated in different languages.
		If it were widely understood that claims to knowledge require adequate evidence before they can be accepted, there would be no room for pseudoscience.
		But a kind of Gresham's Law prevails in popular culture by which bad science drives out good.
	www.jefallbright.net /blog/1?from=313 (2016 words)

	LookSmart's Furl - The ossat Archive
		The closing address was delivered by Richard Smalley, the Rice University chemist who shared the 1996 Nobel Prize for discovering Buckminsterfullerene, a soccer ball-shaped carbon molecule, and its permutations, known as fullerenes.
		The Yezidi are notable because they have been described as devil-worshippers, which has naturally led to constant persecution by the dominant Islamic culture of the region.
		Yezidi religious beliefs upon closer examination appear to be a mixture of Gnostic cosmology, ancient Pagan polytheism, with Muslim, Christian and other influences.
	www.furl.net /members/ossat (1926 words)

	Evolution and Creation: Arthur Hu's Index
		Two discoveries -- the remains of a pre-Clovis camp at Monte Verde in Chile and the skull and bones of the Kennewick Man, possibly as old as 9,300 years and bearing little physical resemblance to later American Indians -- are primarily responsible for the profound shift in thinking.
		Only people have as much variety in one species, some say that variety in culture, iq and appearance is similar to that found in dogs.
		Fullerenes (C60 to C200) from sediments at the PTB contain trapped helium and argon with isotope ratios similar to the planetary component of carbonaceous chondrites.
	www.arthurhu.com /index/evol.htm (9674 words)

	ROCK PROPHECY TIMELINE PAGE 4
		These pieces were among the most popular music in America when Kent State happened, during the week when Jimi appeared in "Red Man's Territory" Oklahoma, on another campus torn by riots and despair during that most divisive week in American history since the Civil War.
		Inside the fullerenes were traces of argon and helium, elements that are found in the makeup of comets and meteorites that have hit the Earth.
		The alignment was studied by Maya Indians at the time, their culture became obsessed with calculations of Venus' orbit.
	www.rockprophecy.com /time4.html (10848 words)

	Foresight Update 32 Page 4
		In addition to articles and course material on debate and argumentation, and on popular culture, there are articles on "Nanotechnological Prolongevity: The Down Side," and "Nanosocialism".
		There are severe cultural barriers (fears?) to thinking seriously about implications of nanotechnology that stretch widespread and millenia-old assumptions about human existence.
		In particular, how the question of access to the technology is handled has the potential to facilitate acceptance or to alienate very large factions of the population.
	www.foresight.org /Updates/Update32/Update32.4.html (2064 words)

	Graduate Research Exposition: Oral Session (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-16)
		The use of leaf area index as a biologic variable has seen increasing popularity because it is highly correlated with volume growth.
		Morphological examination of cultures indicate altered post-confluent growth in NICD transduced cells typified by loss of contact inhibition and 3-dimensional growth.
		To disguise the off-shore movement and transnational relationship, Indian call center agents are trained to mask their own cultural identity and to perform another one cultivated through training.
	www.umaine.edu /research/SRCAWp053.htm (7307 words)

	two * Nuclear Medicine Two Volumes ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-16)
		Jangan Lupa An Experiment in Cross Cultural Understanding The Effort of Two Norwegian Children and Timpaus Indonesian Villagers.
		From "Fullerenes, Nanotube International Symposium on Nanonetwork Materials, et al".
		Holley carburetors covers all highperformance twobarrel fourbarrel Holleys, plus popular replacement units.
	www.alfatah.de /alfauuutwo.html (2079 words)

	Howard Lovy's NanoBot
		I spoke with her back in '98 or '99, when she first came to Intel and I contributed occasional articles to the Detroit News science section.
		Not just the role popular culture plays in the adoption and acceptance of technology -- and I've pounded the keyboard bloody trying to get that point across on this blog and in Small Times columns -- but also ethnic, religious or national culture.
		As nanotechnologists leave the artificial light of the lab behind, they'd better rub their eyes and take a close look at the culture around them before they decide what it is the public should or should not accept.
	nanobot.blogspot.com /2004/05/science-blinded-by-culture.html (905 words)

	hackery
		But in any case Stenger’s assertion is disproven by Anton Zeilinger’s experimental demonstration of quantum wave behavior in fullerenes and biological porphyrin proteins.
		Shermer.) Nonetheless I agree with Stenger that synaptic chemical transmission between neurons is completely classical.
		The early animations of Jules Verne’s moon landings were crude by later standards, but planted the seed of a wonderful idea in popular culture.
	www.quantumconsciousness.org /hackery.htm (1496 words)

	What's New Page
		A simple way to visualize the Vector Equilibrium is through the closest packing of spheres which underlies the geometry of crystal formation.
		Jung (1964) spoke of the significance of regular geometries and mandalas as images of the Self, part of the pattern of psychic growth.
		This geometry is the precursor of the new elemental' Fullerenes.' The V.E. geometry has been recognized for a long time.
	synergeticqabala.chaosmagic.com /whats_new.html (10908 words)

	World Peace Herald (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-16)
		NEW YORK -- As the nanotech devices known as quantum dots grow ever more popular with the electronics and life-sciences industries, analysts fear the complicated patents underlying the field will trigger an expensive set of legal battles that benefit no one.
		You don't really find that with other arenas such as fullerenes, where you are much more likely to hear about cross-licensing between companies rather than an all-out legal war."
		He said the correct solution to the issue is cross-licensing.
	www.wpherald.com /storyview.php?StoryID=20050620-033157-2954r (888 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-16)
		I've gotten a lot of feedback on my earlier post describing the potential for a Copland-style crisis in Apple's future, so I've decided to turn it into a multi-part series.
		Then there are the technical and cultural issues that arise from the differences between the bridge language and the native language.
		Note that even if you want an unmanaged language, C is about the worst you can do from a technical point of view; unmanaged languages don't have to be as unsafe and error prone as C is.
	arstechnica.com /staff/fatbits.ars/2005/9/30/1393/p2 (2392 words)

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