(A confession: Brad Herring sent me a link to this video months ago and I carefully filed it away to include in a later blog post and in the newsletter. Then I forgot about it until Brad very graciously mentioned it last week. My apologies.)

Brad Herring [3] at the Museum of Life + Science [4] put together a great video about the work of North Carolina State University researcher Dr. Jamie Bonner [5] on the potential toxicity of carbon nanotubes.

Apart from being a generally very interesting and thoughtful introduction to some of these societal implications issues, the video could be a good lead-in to a nano forum or a science cafe discussing the risks and benefits of potential nano applications.

Check it out here: http://www.ncmls.org/learn-about/science-in-triangle/carbon-nanotubes [6]

And here are two interesting blog posts by Andrew Maynard [7] and David Berube [8] on carbon nanotubes, the asbestos comparison, and safety. You can also check out Dr. Bonner's website for more information: http://service004.hpc.ncsu.edu/toxicology/faculty/bonner/index.htm [5].