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A new report from the Project on Emerging Nanotechnologies at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars calls for a new approach to nanotechnology oversight. The report comes from one of the country’s foremost authorities on environmental research and policy, which examines the strengths and weaknesses of the current regulatory framework for nanotechnology. Considering the implications nanotechnology has for cancer ...

I attended NetSquared’s Net Tuesday last night. I interviewed the speakers and recorded their presentations for podcasts that will soon (hopefully) be syndicated on Odeo. One speaker was Myles Weissleder from Meetup.com. Meetups are easy ways to set up local meeting of people interested in any sort of topic. Breast cancer survivor groups is one pretty popular kind of Meetup. ...

After that cheery news below about giving there’s this from the NY Times: …with the recent announcements of pension freezes by some of the cream of corporate America –  Verizon, Lockheed Martin,  Motorola and, just last week,  I.B.M. – the bell is tolling even louder. Even strong, stable companies with the means to operate a pension plan are facing longer ...

From the Wash Post: For weeks, many nonprofit organizations have been predicting that the billions of dollars that Americans poured into relief funds last year to help the victims of epic disasters — the South Asia tsunami, Hurricane Katrina and the Pakistan earthquake — would result in "donor fatigue." Donors would grow weary of charitable giving after contributing to disaster-relief ...