Just finished a book by Richard Jones called Soft Machines (blog here)…it’s been very helpful…he describes ideas and concepts that help to clarify some of what I’ve been reading online (I got Bloglines to perform a nanotech search) which I read on an almost daily basis…but everything is mixed together so you get very technical scientific information mixed with nano opinion makers, a fair chunk of nonsense, and business style (pretty puffy on occasion) info…anyway, it’s been tough trying to tease out what it all means or might mean when I’m missing some of the basic science concepts and that’s where Soft Machines came in very handy…he does make a few assumptions e.g. that you’ve heard of James Clerk Maxwell and Michael Faraday…(well, I knew one name but couldn’t quite remember why)…thankfully it’s not a big problem, you can understand what he’s talking about from the context…I just wish that my copy had an index and the Recommended Reading listed in the Table of Contents…I guess even the Oxford University Press makes the odd mistake…oh and Jones is funny too…not all the time, it’s not a humour book but just enough to keep it lively…

As for the Canadian nanotechnology scene…apparently nothing happened yesterday…