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Nanotechnology Now

In makeshift labs and old factory buildings, Connecticut entrepreneurs are trying to engineer commercial breakthroughs using the science of the very, very small.

publication: Connecticut Magazine

published: October 2008

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OSHA, Inspect Thyself

Pushed out for blowing the whistle on OSHA’s failure to protect its own employees, Adam Finkel is still trying to get the workers’-health agency to do its job.

publication: Alternet

published: July 2008

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The Risks and Rewards of Nanotechnology (radio interview)

New Hampshire Public Radio’s “Word of Mouth” show interviewed me for a segment on nanotechnology.

publication: New Hampshire Public Radio

published: July 2008

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Nanotech: The Unknown Risks

“It’s green, it’s clean, it’s never seen — that’s nanotechnology!” That exuberant motto, used by an executive at a nanotech trade group, reflects the enthusiasm about nanotechnology, now used in everything from computer keyboards to toothpaste. But the motto is open for debate. For while nanotech does hold clean and green potential, it also poses possible serious risks to the environment and human health — risks that researchers have barely begun to probe, and regulators have barely begun to regulate.

publication: Yale Environment 360

published: June 2008

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(Nano)Silver Bullet

Your toothpaste and computer keyboard might be pesticides. As manufacturers lace more and more ordinary household goods with germ-killing nano toxins, federal regulators — and the environment — struggle to keep up.

publication: The New Republic

published: May 2008

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Solving a Massive Worker Health Puzzle

The largest workplace health study ever conducted is applying cutting-edge techniques to investigating an apparent cancer cluster—and highlighting the reasons why science doesn’t always protect us at work

publication: Scientific American

published: March 2008

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As Nanotech’s Promise Grows, Will Puny Particles Present Big Health Problems?

Amid the great promise nanotechnology offers, big questions remain on health dangers posed by exposure to tissue-penetrating particles

publication: SciAm.com

published: February 2008

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Yale’s Big Green Experiment

A world-class university gets serious about its environmental footprint.

publication: Yale Alumni Magazine

published: November 2007

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On the Job

The novel is set a century ago, but workplace tragedy is still with us.

publication: New Haven Review

published: August 2007

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