a recent Nature Commentary has generated a lot of interest, particularly in Europe. Maybe it is of interest, also in response to Grand Challenges for Engineering?

I suggest some lines:

ENERGY IN THE AGE OF CLIMATE CHANGE - Italy Joins European Nuclear Power Revival

Submitted by Mike Ciavarella on Wed, 06/11/2008 - 21:55

research

nuclear energy

grand challenges in engineering

Speaking of Grand Challenges, why we never talk of Energy in Imechanica? There are certainly mechanical implications. And Energy is top of the list at the www.engineeringchallenges.org project.

http://www.spiegel.de/international/europe/0,1518,druck-554969,00.html&…;

Italy Joins European Nuclear Power Revival

“Leading Opinion: Peer review as professional responsibility: A quality control system only as good as the participants.

Submitted by Mike Ciavarella on Mon, 06/09/2008 - 17:58

research

review process

ethics in science

persistent nepotism in peer review

A seminar at Paris VI inst. d'alembert - One, no one, and one hundred thousand crack propagation equations: thursday June 5th. 1

Submitted by Mike Ciavarella on Wed, 06/04/2008 - 19:06

Prof Jean -Baptiste Leblond (http://www.lmm.jussieu.fr/~leblond/)

kindly invited me to give a seminar at Inst. d'alembert - Paris VI

A wonderful collection of quotes from Leonardo da Vinci, each fantastic

Submitted by Mike Ciavarella on Wed, 06/04/2008 - 18:06

leonardo

quotes

nature

A well-spent day brings happy
sleep.

Leonardo da Vinci

All our knowledge has its origins
in our perceptions.

Leonardo da Vinci

Although nature
commences with reason and ends in experience it is

necessary for
us to do the opposite, that is to commence with experience

and
from this to proceed to investigate the reason.

Leonardo da
Vinci

Anyone who conducts an argument by appealing to
authority is not using

his intelligence; he is just using his
memory.

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