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Nano Bite: May 2009
Welcome to the May Nano Bite, the monthly e-newsletter for the Nanoscale Informal Science Education Network (NISE Net). What's new in the network? → Thanks to everyone who participated in NanoDays for making it such a success! NISE Net Online
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Nano Haiku: NISE Net Permeates
May 7, 2009
Vrylena Olney
The NISE Net team at the Museum of Science, Boston is preparing to submit our proposal to the National Science Foundation for another five years of funding, so blog posting will be light for the next few days. Here's a...
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NanoDays in Pictures
May 5, 2009
Beck Tench
There are currently 124 pictures from 19 institutions participating in our Flickr NanoDays 2009 pool (opens in a new window). If you have photos from your event, please add yours. If you need help figuring out how to get a...
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Calling all scientists, engineers, artists, designers, and creative thinkers
April 29, 2009
Vrylena Olney
The Science Gallery at Trinity College Dublin in Ireland is organizing an exhibit and festival "exploring nanotechnology and its implications for our future," and they're looking for ideas and proposals. They say they want proposals from "scientists, engineers, artists, designers...
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Next Year We'll Have to Get a Tour Bus
April 28, 2009
Vrylena Olney
Frank Kusiak of the Lawrence Hall of Science took a NanoDays road trip to southern California and sent me a bunch of information about his travels! Read on for details and photos. San Diego Science Festival " Darrell Porcello and...
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Introducing NanoDays: Visualized
April 23, 2009
Beck Tench
Institutions reporting as of April 23, 2009: 50 Beck Tench , here, your friendly NISE Net Online Community Manager. I'll be blogging NanoDays report results as they come in over the next couple of months and visualizing that data so...
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Nano Haiku: Good Vibrations
April 23, 2009
Vrylena Olney
Nano radio Playing in unseen smallness Can anyone hear? by Karen Pollard of the For more information about the nanotube radio, check out the Lawrence Berkeley National Lab's Nanotube Radio page. While you're there, watch/listen to a recording of the...
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How I Learned to Stop Fearing the Nanobot
April 21, 2009
Vrylena Olney
Kim Duncan recently posted a nice adaptation of the Shrinking Robots! program for children's museum audiences. The original program explores robots, how small robots are today, and the challenges in creating nano-sized robots ("nanobots"). The activity as posted is about...
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I Made a Birthday Cake but It Was Too Small to See
April 17, 2009
Vrylena Olney
Get your party hats on, because April 25th is the birthday of nanotechnology pioneer Eric Drexler! Among other things, Drexler coined the term "grey goo" in his 1986 book Engines of Creation: The Coming Era of Nanotechnology to describe what...
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NISE Network Nano Logo and Promotional Photos
Promotional materials for the Nanoscale Informal Science Education Network (NISE Network) project featuring logos and images; archive of materials from 2008.
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