This is the testing video for the new Video Researchers League, the sift Documentary channel competition.

Please post links that you think compliment this video, feel free to explain why the link goes good with the video. I'll start with an easy one. Here is Feynman's wikipedia page, a great place to start your research.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Feynman

Please click the "Applaud Quality" button on link submissions that you think are good.

I don't think I'll try to compete but the timing is interesting. CRN (Center for Responsible Nanotechnology) is having their first conference right now. Runs Sep 9-13. Might be worth seeing if anything interesting comes out of that.

Web page itself is here with info on them, the conference, and whatever else. Pretty speculative stuff in a lot of respects but interesting.

I disagree, that wikipedia, is a great place to start researching anything. It is a reference tool, and a dubious one, at that.

I disagree Choggie, it is a great place to "start" research, on most entries you can find links to sources and third party websites all over the internet. Never would I insist that wikipedia should be your only source, but it is a great place to start.

Thanks for the link drattus, the competition is all in good fun, and i'll have more about that later, but just by sharing the link you are now part of the video researchers league, welcome.

http://www.videosift.com/playlists/rbar/Feynman - essential if you don't wish to leave

But one of my favorite Feynman stories is found in this article-
http://www.hartford-hwp.com/archives/56/007.html

Perfect, the playlist link is key, thanks Rickagee

Anyone else think it was cool that Feynman was credited as a drummer?

In the video, the narrator mentions There's Plenty of Room at the Bottom, the talk in which Feynman asks "Why cannot we write the entire 24 volumes of the Encyclopedia Brittanica on the head of a pin?" You can find the transcript of that talk here: http://www.zyvex.com/nanotech/feynman.html

In addition, there's some extra information and a long list of recommended books, cds, video clips, etc. here: http://amasci.com/feynman.html

Some articles about practical applications of nanotechnology:
http://www.wilsoncenter.org/index.cfm?topic_id=116811&fuseaction=topics.event_summary&event_id=216016#
http://www.cheresources.com/nanotech1.shtml

I *really* like this idea.

For the record:
100nm chip geometries are now "near antiquated".
90nm computer chip elements are now between "emerging" and "standard"
60nm computer chip elements are emerging...being built, but too expensive & failure-ridden for consumption.

Which probably means the military is using 60nm.

But graph that in your mind!
120nm - 5 years ago
100nm - 3 years ago thru present
90nm - 2 years ago thru present
60nm - emerging
did you see the jump?
Wow!

Think about this when you purchase your first roll-up cloth monitor or HDTV!