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• 52 A little story about drugs, bass and balls

  Wired didn't make me wait very long to find an illustration of a point I made last week in Washington. "Big Concern for Very Small Things" mentions the Nanodesu buckyball bowling ball. The reporter rolls out the balls, however, as merely a transitional vehicle to get to where he really wanted to go: From apples to oranges to, yes, fish. Our poor, brain-damaged bass.

  in Politics — by Howard Lovy — on Apr 10, 2004

• 51 Nano is a concept by which we measure our pain

  Nanotechnology is such a young discipline that any issue for which the nano name is invoked is largely a reflection of a personal world view or political agenda rather than any overwhelming body of evidence.

  in Culture — by Howard Lovy — on Mar 29, 2004

• 50 Nanomatic for the people

  Lisa Napoli, senior reporter for public radio's Marketplace did an admirable job of injecting a wide range of ideas about nanotechnology in such a short amount of time in Tuesday's report.

  in Culture — by Howard Lovy — on Mar 25, 2004

• 49 A longing for paradise regained

  Hitting myself with a “60-Minutes”-style ambush interview, I made short work of my sentiment: Not all water is “pure,” whether from natural sea salt or manmade pollution. So, to “arrogantly” manipulate matter on the molecular level can also be to bring it back to an ideal state.

  in Culture — by Howard Lovy — on Mar 18, 2004

• 48 Evangelicals and Nano-Gnosticism

  Luddites to the left of me, the religious to the right; and here I am, stuck in the middle with nano.

  Opinion in Politics — by Howard Lovy — on Feb 21, 2004

• 47 More pieces of Feynman

  Back to Feynman. In my previous post, I talked about how the nanotech founding father's words get me through my morning commute. Feynman was big on making science understandable to everyday slobs like me. But I wonder how I would have handled this interview, relayed by Robert P. Crease in a March 2001 article in Physics Web, "Revenge of the Science Writer."

  in Books — by Howard Lovy — on Feb 13, 2004

• 46 Driving under the influence of Feynman

  One of my dirty little secrets is that I listen to audiobooks from audible.com. This morning, I "read" (OK, had read to me), Richard Feynman's "The Pleasure of Finding Things Out." I'm a caffeine addict, but Feynman's words had, as the nanofather himself would say, a "kick" all its own.

  in Books — by Howard Lovy — on Feb 11, 2004

• 45 A Sad Jab at the 'Bad Rad Lab'

  There were only 20-30 people at Thursday's "Bad Rad Lab" protests against the Molecular Foundry groundbreaking at Berkeley, but it bugs me, nevertheless.

  in Culture — by Howard Lovy — on Feb 03, 2004

• 44 Nanotech and Tikkun

  The portion of the 21st Century Nanotechnology Research and Development Act that tries to safeguard against "potential use of nanotechnology in enhancing human intelligence and in developing artificial intelligence which exceeds human capacity" presages a debate that is growing in religious circles.

  in Politics — by Howard Lovy — on Feb 01, 2004

• 43 Ripples in the Nanoblogosphere

  My recent rantings have rippled up and down the nanosphere and have had a far larger influence on the public debate over nanotech's future than I had ever expected. Scary. I'll take it from the top, but stay with it until the end, since there's a narrative flow with a bizarre ending.

  in Sci/Tech — by Howard Lovy — on Jan 29, 2004