Monthly Archives: September 2010

The Third Panton Discussion took place today at 2010-09-13:15:00 in the Panton Arms when Richard Grant of The Scientist/Faculty_of_1000 visited Cambridge.     I was the only OKF member able to be present, but this worked very well because it … Continue reading →

One of the several functions of the Open Knowledge Foundation (http://www.okfn.org) is to support bottom-up projects in making knowledge Open and usable. Recently we have proposed an OKF project in Open Theses and Daniel Mietchen, an OKF volunteer from Jena, … Continue reading →

One of the exciting things about Opentech UK is meeting people who can contribute to your own work from the directions that you hadn’t thought of. So I met up with James Hetherington, from AMEE (http://wwmm.ch.cam.ac.uk/blogs/murrayrust/?p=2601 ) a group that … Continue reading →

I attended this year’s OpentechUK on Saturday and have been overwhelmed by the sense of the occasion. This is brought home to me by one of the opening presentations which showed how what we are doing here-an-and now is critical … Continue reading →

  The second Panton Discussion was held yesterday on 2010-09-10:12:00 with David Dobbs. David (“writing on science, medicine, culture”, http://daviddobbs.net/ ) is a neuroscientist – though now a journalist – and here’s a recent article http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2009/12/the-science-of-success/7761/ with some touching reader … Continue reading →

Scraped/typed into Arcturus Reactions to the Reaction. I have now normalized the chemical names of the solvents in the Green Chain Reaction and will be posting results for each of the years. There are some exciting and important points I … Continue reading →

The first Panton Discussion with Richard Poynder was a great success. At science online (#solo10) we made some informal contacts and as a result we shall have some more discussions in the near future. There is no fixed format – … Continue reading →

Scraped/typed into Arcturus Reactions to the Reaction.   Responses to “#solo10 Immediate reactions and thanks” Egon Willighagen says: September 6, 2010 at 9:48 am  (Edit) Peter, what is next? Are you going to push this project further, or does it stop … Continue reading →

Scraped/typed into Arcturus I AM SO GRATEFUL TO EVERYONE WHO HAS HELPED WITH THE GREEN CHAIN REACTION. THE SESSION WAS A GREAT SUCCESS. WE GOT A PRELIMINARY RESULT ABOUT 5 MINS BEFORE WE WENT LIVE: There is no immediately obvious … Continue reading →

Scraped/typed into Arcturus The first results are Live! For 11 years (2000-2010) we have a list of the aggregated frequency of solvents. YOU can start to decide on the greenness – no code needs to be run.   NOTES: There … Continue reading →