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His Excellency Mr. Fatos Nano, Prime Minister of the Republic of Albania

DNA is about two nanometers across, which is really quite tiny.

The lifetime of an excimer is very short, on the order of nanoseconds.

There's an aerated brick I did in Limoges last year, in Concepts for New Ceramics in Architecture.

The ceramic package was more expensive, but it dissipated heat more effectively than plastic.

Archaeologists note a dramatic adoption of Tiwanaku ceramics into the cultures which became part of the Tiwanaku empire.

Usually proteins are detected as they are coming off the column by their absorbance at 280 nm.

And there on the smaller scale, the scale of an earring or a ceramic pot or a musical instrument, was a materiality and a soulfulness.

Released as free software by Chris Allegretta in 1999, today nano is part of the GNU Project.

An example is a sensor having a switch approximately 1.5 nanometers across, capable of counting specific molecules in a chemical sample.

But what's really interesting unlike our ceramics that are in kilns, it happens in seawater. It happens near, in and near, the organism's body.

I know Bill Joy was talking to you about the wonders of carbon nanotubes, so I'm going to talk to you about the wonders of carbon macro tubes, which is charcoal.

The paper concludes that chips consisting of unreacted and partially reacted super thermite, or nano thermite, appear to be present in samples of the dust.

You get really nice 130 nanometer triangles. If you do it again, you can get arbitrary patterns. So on a rectangle you can paint patterns of North and South America, or the words, DNA.

The clock is not necessarily updated every 100 ns for example, systems with a 100 Hz interval timer simply add 100 000 to the value every hundredth of a second.

So this whole world, the nano world, this area in here is called the nano world, and the nano world, the whole micro world that we see, there's a nano world that is wrapped up within that, and the whole and that is the world of molecules and atoms.

But in fact, those molecules are spinning at the rate of about a million revolutions per second they're agitating back and forth their size every two nanoseconds they're completely crowded together, they're jammed, they're bashing up against each other.

The next piece that I'm going to do which is the cylinders piece, if you want to get that up it has to do with cylinder seals from about 5,000 years ago, which were stones with designs that were used to roll over wet clay with all sorts of great designs. I love ceramics and all of that.

Indian ingenuity has produced a startling number of world beating innovations, none more impressive than the Tata Nano, which, at 2,000, costs roughly the same as a high end DVD player in a Western luxury car.

But on the other side, if you look at the natural systems, we have proteins that have two million types, can fold in 10,000 nanoseconds, or DNA with three billion base pairs we can replicate in roughly an hour.

Imagine being able to make ceramics at room temperature by simply dipping something into a liquid, lifting it out of the liquid, and having evaporation force the molecules in the liquid together, so that they jigsaw together in the same way as this crystallization works.

Seven pieces gave an age range of c. 2000 2500 BC, while two ceramic sherds of non diagnostic typology one from Hellenikon and one from Ligourio dated by TL and OSL gave concordant ages of 3000 250 BC and 660 200 BC respectively.

The way you measure nanotechnology is in nanometers, and one nanometer is a billionth of a meter, and to put some scale to that, if you had a nanoparticle that was one nanometer thick, and you put it side by side, and you had 50,000 of them, you'd be the width of a human hair.

Of course, there s no DVD player in the Nano (and no radio, either, in the basic model) but its innovations (which have garnered 34 patents) are not merely the result of doing away with frills (including power brakes, air conditioning, and side view mirrors).