Nanogirl's speech

Yesterday Dr Michelle Dickinson, AKA Nanogirl, came to the Regent theater and did a speech about nanotechnology. She had some funny stories up her sleeve like this one... "A bit of a time ago, I went to the Auckland zoo. I went into the gecko place and 'stuck' geckos up to the ceiling. Then one of the zookeepers came in, and she said that geckos don't stick to Teflon. So the next time I went in, I took a frying pan from the warehouse that had some Teflon inside it, looked around to see the zookeeper was looking the other way, then put a gecko on it. It slid right off. Well, now you see scientists won't believe anything until they do it three times. So I did it again. Like last time, it slid straight off. But when I was about to do it again I got a tap on my shoulder. And because I had the frying pan in one hand and the gecko in the other, it looked a lot like I was about to bash the gecko with it. I tried and tried to explain to her it was for science, but she didn't listen. And I am now banned from Auckland zoo." She also showed us the world's smallest movie, which she said was made frame by frame, and each one took about three hours. It is called "A boy and his atom". Watch it on YouTube here, or just watch it on my blog.


She also had awesome science experiments for us to take a look at, like ferrofluid, waterproof sand, a half waterproof plate and nano-3D printed gecko feet.