NISE Network Blog
NISE Net ASTC Sessions
August 27, 2009
Vrylena Olney
Here's a full list of the Association of Science-Technology Centers Annual Conference sessions that will be featuring NISE Net work or findings from our work, sorted by date and time. Please keep in mind that session descriptions are taken from...
Nano Haiku: Star Trek and Nanites
August 12, 2009
Vrylena Olney
Vicki Coats of the Oregon Museum of Science and Industry recently wrote her first nano haiku, inspired by a Star Trek episode that featured nanites: Before Borg attack Make nanites ahead of time Locutus will fail Here's the clip:
More Nano Haikus: Surface Area
August 4, 2009
Vrylena Olney
Untitled 1 By Keith Ostfeld of the Children's Museum of Houston Nano, oh nano With surface area so Small, but big impact And here's an activity about surface area: Exploring Properties: Surface Area
Nano Poetry Boundaries Broken!
August 4, 2009
Vrylena Olney
I knew the NISE Net was special. But even I did not expect this. Only one day after the Nano Bite e-newsletter went out, I am happy to announce that we have our first ever nano sestina. I am verklempt...
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...
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...
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...
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...
"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...
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...