Business In Minnesota, Eh?
Monday, August 11th, 2008I’m in St. Paul, enjoying a lovely business trip for a NISEnet workshop! NISEnet is a network of museum professionals and scientists coming up with ways to present nanotechnology to the public. This has been very informative and fun thus far. It’s always a wonderful experience talking to other museum professionals, of course.
The Science Museum of Minnesota is really awesome, too. They have a SPIFFY bunch of calculus exhibits. I tell you, if calculus were presented to me this way in college I would have enjoyed it better. Also, I tested enzymes in the cell lab… enzymes FROM MY SALIVA! Also saw The Science of Star Wars, which needs to come to the SLSC because it’s fun. I like the videos of the different creative people talking about how they made George Lucas’s outlandish visions for the film a reality. However, seeing how creative they had to be for the original films vs. the way that creativity lagged in the prequels was depressing. Now I want to watch the original Star Wars films back to back. The way they got the sound effects was especially fun.
At the bottom of the museum (you enter at the top) is the outdoor learning area, a great place with sand and water exhibits and a mini golf course. I want water exhibits now. They appeal to my inner five year old.
Anyway, fantastic museum, fantastic workshop, and don’t even get me started on how fantastic the food is.
I’ll post pictures when I get back to STL. A cold is ruining my life and I need to take some meds and sleep so I can be refreshed for tomorrow!







