What's new on Howard Lovy's NanoBot

Clash of the Nanotech Titans
Chemical & Engineering News, in its cover story on the Eric Drexler/Rick 
Smalley debates on molecular manufacturing, is allowing the world to 
witness the latest in a long line of dialogues on the fundamental nature 
of the universe that dates back to the time of the ancient Greeks and 
the dawn of scientific and philosophical thought.
http://nanobot.blogspot.com/2003_11_30_nanobot_archive.html#107028147173102174

Drawing a nano-sized line in the sand
Whether Iraq had a nuclear weapons program just before the U.S. invasion 
will be debated for decades to come, but there is one indisputable fact 
that should be dealt with in the short term: Iraq's science community is 
now one of the country's richest untapped natural resources.
http://nanobot.blogspot.com/2003_11_23_nanobot_archive.html#107008079669665397

Intel's 'Nano Inside'
Intel says it's now a master of the 65-nanometer domain. But are these 
nanochips truly "nanotechnology?" I was surprised when "Engines of 
Creation" and "Nanosystems" author Eric Drexler -- whom I had assumed to 
be a molecular manufacturing purist -- told me he thought they qualified.
http://nanobot.blogspot.com/2003_11_23_nanobot_archive.html#106979189884141792

Nano's got a brand-new bag: Politics
Tim Harper and Paul Holister at Cientifica ask in their latest edition 
of TNT Weekly whether anybody here in the colonies actually read the 
nanotech bill (PDF, 56.1 KB) or understand what nanotechnology is.
http://nanobot.blogspot.com/2003_11_23_nanobot_archive.html#106969756709919883

Spending power
With all the talk about the nanotech bill, this plan from the Department 
of Energy, "Facilities for the Future of Science," (PDF, 1.2 MB) did not 
receive as much attention as it deserved. Much of it involves simply 
building the infrastructure (28 new science facilities) to enable some 
of the energy ideas that have been floating around for years, and of 
course to come up with some new ones. Fusion and supercomputing top the 
list of priorities, but nanotechnology gets a few perks thrown in there, 
too.
http://nanobot.blogspot.com/2003_11_30_nanobot_archive.html#107025391601151221

Nano not hep to this cat
Gordon Wozniak, who the Contra Costa Times describes as the Berkeley 
City Council's "resident scientist," has a colorful way of telling his 
fellow council members not to worry about unfounded fears that stray 
nanoparticles will escape the molecular foundry being built at Lawrence 
Berkeley National Laboratory.
http://nanobot.blogspot.com/2003_11_23_nanobot_archive.html#106999801505587024

InstaAffirmation
Glenn Reynolds, in his latest Tech Central Station column, joins the 
ranks of those of us who support the 21st Century Nanotechnology 
Research and Development Act (PDF, 56.1 KB), but are a bit baffled by 
the provision for a study on "molecular self-assembly." Reynolds writes:
http://nanobot.blogspot.com/2003_11_23_nanobot_archive.html#106984025636072361

NanoBusiness As Usual
There's an interesting passage in a positively giddy-sounding 
NanoBusiness Alliance newsletter: "(The nanotech bill), contrary to 
earlier drafts, does not develop an elaborate feasibility study of 
Drexler style molecular manufacturing."
http://nanobot.blogspot.com/2003_11_23_nanobot_archive.html#106981883696966495

We're Number 6!
NanoBot is in the weekly Top Ten BlogSpot sites for the week, according 
to a note I received this morning from Bloggerforum.com. Yes, this and 
four bucks will get me an eggnog latte at Starbucks, but it's still good 
to know that a few people read this blog last week. The Bloggerforum 
site puts Howard Lovy's NanoBot at No. 6 for the week. No. 1 is Where is 
Raed?, the famous Baghdad Blogger that put us all on the map -- not bad 
company for a niche technology/science blog.
http://nanobot.blogspot.com/2003_11_23_nanobot_archive.html#106967808921148471