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• World's Smallest Snowman - Proof Communication's campaign for the National Physical Laboratory 2009/12/17
  Proof came up with the idea to publicise the World's Smallest Snowman. Originally the image was just to be used on the National Physical Laboratory's Xmas cards. Proof turned it into a press release and pushed it out to the world. 30 million people have now seen the snowman and NPL's site traffic has increased 690% in the past two weeks.
• Microsoft research shows UK needs 78,000 new IT workers 2009/12/10
• Folding Turkey 2009/12/10
  A template for a paper-based turkey from design team at Spiral - print it out and make it yourself.
• World's Smallest Snowman 2009/12/10
  Scientists at the National Physical Laboratory have created the world's smallest snowman. The snowman is 10 µm across, 1/5th the width of a human hair.
  
  The snowman was made from two tin beads used to calibrate electron microscope astigmatism. The eyes and smile were milled using a focused ion beam, and the nose, which is under 1 µm wide (or 0.001 mm), is ion beam deposited platinum.
  
  A nanomanipulation system was used to assemble the parts 'by hand' and platinum deposition was used to weld all elements together. The snowman is mounted on a silicon cantilever from an atomic force microscope whose sharp tip 'feels' surfaces creating topographic surveys at almost atomic scales.
• We need to Convince the Taxpayer - Opinion article by Proof Communication director Jonathon Rees in Research Information magazine 2009/12/09