New year new update.. Happy new year!

"resilience" is the important word in this world today..

Also, I am the new tech editor of the nanyang chronicles :)

Singapore And U.S. Establish Design Principles For Nanowire Sensors

Source: Government of Singapore 

Posted on: 13th December 2010

Due to their demonstrated ability to detect biomolecules with exceptional sensitivity, silicon nanowire sensors are widely acknowledged as the most promising means of realising systems capable of providing rapid, low-cost and high-throughput analyses of biological processes.

http://www.news.gov.sg/public/sgpc/en/media_releases/agencies/astar/press_release/P-20101213-1
     

After the military in-camp training

Duration: 1 out of 12 months this year
I am now back in full force to my job of

understanding what people do not understand

Researching in NTU

Singaporean PhDs are going to be increased.

http://www3.ntu.edu.sg/CorpComms2/Documents/2010/Nov/ST_101117_B12_NTU%205%20peaks.pdf

Globalization

Taken from ST

Singapore

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Oct 21, 2010

PM Lee's regret

He says he would have helped Singapore workers train earlier to face challenges of globalisation

By Li Xueying & Cassandra Chew

Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong would have started preparing Singaporeans 'five, or better still, 10 years earlier' for the challenges of globalisation. -- PHOTO: ST/FRANCIS ONG PG

WITH the benefit of 20/20 hindsight, Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong would have started preparing Singaporeans 'five, or better still, 10 years earlier' for the challenges of globalisation.

While Singapore has put 'a lot of resources' in education and training, he would have pumped in more - and sooner - to help workers upgrade and train for an era in which knowledge is 'absolutely critical'.

'If we had known how quickly the pace of change would accelerate and how much our people would be under pressure from globalisation... we would have put even more resources in,' Mr Lee said last night.

Singapore, he said, would then 'have less of a problem now of workers catching up'.

While the Continuing Education and Training programme to promote lifelong learning can be traced as far back as 1973, it made inroads in a big way only in recent years, after the Workforce Development Agency was set up in 2003.

Workers and employers alike remain in need of persuasion as to the importance of training.

Nuclear Radiation in Singapore?

One of the option for me to consider is nuclear waste.. This could be a potential area to go into as money could be poured here in future.. However, the repercussion if something goes wrong is unimaginable.. I am still reading up..


http://www.npr.org/blogs/bryantpark/2007/10/nuclear_waste_a_warning_sign_t.html

Florescence on the watch? Who made it?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radium_Girls

The accident in seversk left it a secret town..
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tomsk-7


Looks attractive, it maybe radioactive..  (Radiation from a medical device is potent too)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goi%C3%A2nia_accident

One of the Papers I am reading.. Found this by searching for conference name

Development of Sensitive Sensor for Endocrine Disruption Chemicals Detec...

An afternoon at the Library

Quote1
Modern Science
Modern science began during the European Renaissance. The insights into motion and structure of universe began with Galileo Galelei, understandings of light and gravity began with Isaac Newton. Evolution of species from Charles Darwin.

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Science Vs. Technology
Unlike science, technology did not have to wait on the specific discoveries, concepts and mathematical equations of the past five hundred years.. One can fashion medical treatments even in the absence of cogent scientific theories.

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Society Lacking Science
Those societies that lack science must either remain deprived of technological innovations or simply copy them from societies that have developed them.

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Knowledge Arranger
In the sacred times, beginning in the garden of eden, knowledge accumulated at a sufficient slow rate that it could be passed on orally from parent to child, and on down to each suceeding generation. Once societies become self-conscious bout the knowledge that had coalesced, groups will attempt to set it down in a clear systematic and easily grasped way by the next generation. Socrates, plato, aristotle, leonardo, encyclopedia britannica, wikipedia



A book on the 5 Minds for the Future:
Disciplined Mind, 
Synthesizing Mind, 
Creating Mind, 
Respectful Mind and 
Ethical

The shocking thing is that a disciplined mind takes a least 10 years to form.. These are mindsets which one could invest time in..

I picked up this book like a metal to magnet.. The author looked impressive, Howard Gardner, a world-renown psychologist and Harvard professor, and the comments printed on the back cover looks authoritative.. So i continued to read it.. The book review at the end of the blog sums up what the author has to say, however, reading the full book is recommended..



http://blogs.rediff.com/pgr/2008/11/16/five-minds-for-the-future/

Buddhist Meditation (Health & Wellbeing: Meditation)

Buddhist Meditation (Health & Wellbeing: Meditation)

Contact Singapore

http://blogs.physicstoday.org/mt/mt-tb.cgi/5349

Another approach to get science people to singapore.. i hope there will be a critical mass here on this island..

Graphene discoverers might win the next Nobel prize for Physics

:)

Posted: 02 Oct 2010 07:03 AM PDT

The American Institute of Physics conducted a poll - who out to win the next Nobel prize for Physics? 320 people cast their votes, and 11.3% of them voted for Andre Geim and Kostya Novoselov - for discovering Graphene.
So obviously this is just speculation - and we'll have to wait to see who the real winners are (on Tuesday, October 5th).
read more

I hope they win, cos i think graphene could do so much... and they discovered this new material in the modern age..

Mid Autumn Festival

Today is Mid Autumn Festival.. :) Today going back early to celebrate.. Maybe go see some lanterns at Chinese Garden if the weather is good.. It is raining cats and dogs outside now..

Today did the MS7030 materials characterization quiz and then we went hall 2 eat some trotters and played WII :) it is quite a day.. hehe.. tomorrow got 2 events, one is Research Integrity talk (compulsory one) and also Scanning Electron Microscopy practice.. Meanwhile, I am reading up so that I can present my take on Graphene development direction and also do the MS7003, Nano Molecular Electronics review paper..

Met up with Prof Oh, realised that the COST meeting is held only once a year now, so can only travel next year.. Got one word from him, "Discipline".. wat u do now, will catch up with u later..

Happy Mid Autumn Festival!

BBC Radio on Graphene

This approx 30 mins program on BBC World Service Radio talks about Graphene..

It is quite a good show, with Graphene background and also with some top researchers informally talk about their latest discovery..

http://www.bbc.co.uk/i/p009lzgt/

Conferences

There are many conferences that I will like to attend if I have unlimited cash :)


Listed as:
International Conference on Materials for Advanced Technologies <- Confirm going as in Singapore. 26Jun~1Jul 2011


International Symposium on the Science and Technology of Epitaxial Graphene <-Organised by Georgia Tech, Mid Sept


1^st International Postgraduate Student Conference (PGSC) will be held in conjunction with The Photonics Global Conference (PGC) Singapore from 14 to 16 December 2010 <- Got special session on Graphene, but clash with exams and also with my In Camp Training.. 

Graphene Week 2011: Fundamental Science of Graphene and Applications of Graphene-Based Devices, Universitätszentrum Obergurgl (Ötz Valley, near Innsbruck), Austria, 24-29 April 2011

Attended, 
1st Singapore Health and Biomedical Congress. 12-13Nov 2010. Suntec City Conventional Centre, Singapore

2nd Week of School

This is the 2nd week of school.. Things are going slow this week as there is no lab.. Know a few classmates here and there.. Joined a few clubs and got some freebies.. and also kanna 1 final year project kid with me..

Read this article, hope someday, my sensor will get this kinda award..
http://www.sensorsmag.com/sensors/the-best-sensors-expo-awards-2009-meet-winners-5857