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First Ever Nano Limerick!
August 3, 2009
Vrylena Olney
As promised in the August Nano Bite e-newsletter, the First Ever Nano Limerick by Anders Liljeholm of the Oregon Museum of Science and Industry : There once was a science named Nano, which led to new products by Wham-O. It's...
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Washington DC Nano News - Learning Informal Science in Congress: People, Places, and Policy
July 27, 2009
Margaret Glass
authored by Margaret Glass The National Academies report Learning Science in Informal Environments can provide our field a more identifiable and meaningful place at the table of education policy - if we learn how to use it for that purpose...
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Changes Afoot at NIH - More $$$ for Science Education?
July 27, 2009
Carol Lynn Alpert
The National Institutes of Health maintains a 30 billion dollar portfolio of health and biomedical research, a yearly budget that roundly trumps that of the National Science Foundation (about 7 billion) and the National Nanotechnology Initiative (1.6 billion). Although NIH...
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Nanotubes and Asbestos Video
July 27, 2009
Vrylena Olney
(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...
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"Cooler in terms of temperature, as well as awesomeness."
July 21, 2009
Vrylena Olney
If you've got a few minutes to kill, check out the Oregon Museum of Science and Industry's podcast on nanotechnology . Anders Liljeholm from OMSI (a NISE Net programs team member who does a mean Evil Nanoscientist ) answers questions...
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Nano Sunscreens: Not So Bad?
July 20, 2009
Vrylena Olney
There's been some debate about the safety of nano-sized particles of zinc oxide and titanium dioxide in sunscreens-- one of the scenarios discussed in the NISE Net's Nanomedicine in Healthcare forum relates to using nano-sized particles of zinc oxide in...
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Washington DC Nano News - A Tale of Two Bills
July 17, 2009
Margaret Glass
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Building connections between social science and informal science education
July 15, 2009
Larry Bell
Members of the NISE Net Program group and faculty and students at the Center for Nanotechnology in Society at Arizona State University are teaming up to demonstrate and discuss potential collaborations between the social science community and the informal science...
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Blowing Bubbles and Learning About Nanostructures
July 8, 2009
Vrylena Olney
Visitors to the Sciencenter in Ithaca, NY , are blowing bubbles and exploring the nanoworld at the same time. Visitors to the outdoor science park investigate the properties of bubbles, structures that self-assemble from soap film. They also create large...
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Nano Bite: July 2009
Welcome to the July Nano Bite, the monthly e-newsletter for the Nanoscale Informal Science Education Network (NISE Net). What's new in the Network? → The Visualization Lab (Viz Lab) Image Collection is now up on nisenet.org . The collection includes
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There's POLYMER SLIME in that summer camp!
July 2, 2009
Vrylena Olney
Campers at the Austin Children's Museum will be learning about molecules and mixing up a batch of polymer slime this summer, as well as extracting strawberry DNA , and doing the liquid crystals activity from the NanoDays kit in the...
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What makes you think that?
June 19, 2009
Vrylena Olney
The NISE Net has a forum called "Risks, Benefits, and Who Decides?" but maybe the question should be "How do they decide?" Dietram Scheufele, a Professor of Life Sciences Communication at the University of Wisconsin is one of the authors...
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NanoVenture game about nanotechnology and society
June 18, 2009
Vrylena Olney
It's not a NISE Net product, but our partners at the University of Wisconsin - Madison MRSEC just finished their NanoVenture game! The game explores connections between science (specifically nanotechnology) and society. Greta Zenner , the Director of the Interdisciplinary...
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There's nano in that summer camp! Part 3
June 12, 2009
Vrylena Olney
Mike Rathbun at the Discovery Center Museum in Rockford, IL recently emailed saying that they plan to conduct a 2-day teacher workshop on nanoscale science plus they're attempting daily nano cart demos on their floor all summer. The Introduction to...
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How did you plan and schedule your NanoDays event?
June 10, 2009
Beck Tench
For this installment of the NanoDays Blog, I want you to answer the question: How did you plan and schedule your NanoDays event? NanoDays 2009 at Maryland Science Center Here are some specific questions to help get you thinking. What...
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Nano Bite: June 2009
Welcome to the June Nano Bite, the monthly e-newsletter for the Nanoscale Informal Science Education Network (NISE Net). What's new? Summer is fast approaching! Whether you’re planning for summer camp or pulling together floor activities, there are plenty of ways
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There's nano in that summer camp! Part 2
June 2, 2009
Vrylena Olney
It's all-summer-programming-all-the-time on the Nano Bite this week. Here are a few examples of how partners are incorporating nano topics into their regular summer programming: Magnets Arizona Science Center is making magnetism more intriguing by introducing kids to ferrofluid, from...
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What NanoDays Kit activities worked best for you?
June 2, 2009
Beck Tench
Sylvia Algire, Assistant Manager of the Field Trips department at the Exploratorium just emailed a comment about her experience with NanoDays 2009. "The visitors (mostly field trip students) were drawn to the demos that had some type of specific and...
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There's nano in that summer camp! Part 1
June 1, 2009
Vrylena Olney
Photo by Carl Mydans from the LIFE Photo Archive As I mention in the June Nano Bite newsletter, lots of NISE Net partners are either planning nano-themed summer camps or using nano activities from the NanoDays kit or other sources...
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How did you market NanoDays?
June 1, 2009
Beck Tench
How did you explain NanoDays to your PR team? First, thanks to the folks who've contributed examples to the Kit Activities vs. Non-Kit Activities post. Second, I have more questions. This time in reference to how you promoted NanoDays with...
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Nanotechnology transforms dessert (Brad's recipe for super-smooth ice cream)
May 29, 2009
Vrylena Olney
Photo by roboppy Smooth ice cream comes from really small, fine-grained crystals. So what happens if you cool ice cream so quickly that the crystals are nanosized? You get super-smooth nano ice cream! The Museum of Life and Science in...
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Can Nanotechnology Save the Planet? Perspectives from INC5
May 26, 2009
Larry Bell
Some science fiction stories, like Michael Crichton’s novel Prey, portray nanotechnology as leading to developments that can destroy the world, but some of the presenters at this year’s International Nanotechnology Conference for Communication and Collaboration (INC5) told a story that...
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Where's Nano?
May 26, 2009
Vrylena Olney
I recently discovered (courtesy of Andrew Maynard's recent nanotechnology primer blog post ) the Project for Emerging Nanotechnologies' NanoMetro map . It's an interactive map that shows the locations of companies, universities, labs, etc. that are working in nanotechnology in...
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A Vaccine for Last-Minute-Itis
May 26, 2009
Carol Lynn Alpert
Several times in the past (check the RISE Group Page ), I’ve written about the problem of last-minute-itis among NSF grant proposal writers. Symptoms of this illness are well-known to grant administrators at universities as well as at science museums...
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Nano Jobs: Post-doc position at ASU
May 22, 2009
Vrylena Olney
Robin Marks from the Exploratorium forwarded me an announcement for another post-doctoral position opening up with the Center for Nanotechnology in Society , this time at Arizona State University. They're looking for a coordinator for private sector outreach. The coordinator...
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