The Environmental Risks of Nano Technology Are Overblown

Today’s episode is all about making our technologies and medicines tiny. Like, super tiny. 

Guests:

• Ainissa Ramirez -- scientist, speaker, author of The Alchemy of Us
• Eun Ji Chung -- biomedical engineer at the University of Southern California
• Inge Hermann -- chemical engineer at ETH Zürich
• Raj Bawa -- biotechnologist at Bawa Biotech 
• Richard Handy -- environmental toxicologist at University of Plymouth
• Lisa Yaszek -- professor of science fiction studies at Georgia Tech

Voice Actors:

• Harry Purvis -- Brett Tubbs
• Parvis Tech -- Chelsey B. Coombs

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