Germany is using a specially modified exhibition train to showcase science and get young people across the country interested in science.

In writing his books on World War II, Winston Churchill entitled the first The Gathering Storm. It was obvious in the 1930s, he said, that threats were rapidly building in Nazi Germany; yet the political leaders in Britain and France looked away, drifting into the future. One day, it was too late. Will history now repeat itself in America?

Greenfield, a member of the UK's House of Lords, asked the government today if it's education policies were taking into account the possibility that technology is changing the way our brains work. The link goes to the full transcript of her speech; whether or not you agree with everything she says, Greenfield raises some interesting questions.

It's also an interesting comment on modern society that a baroness can speak to issues involving nanotechnology.