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At this week’s event, I heard many topics that were similar to the ones we have been discussing the last few weeks regarding the integration of math, science, and art. Pictured below is me with one of the speakers, Linda Weintraub. During her presentation, she talked about how pharmaceutical products, such as antidepressants and birth control pills, are found in the water stream from human’s urination through the plumbing system and have been ingested by the sea life within those water streams. She did this by placing her art piece that displays this cycle in the bathroom stalls instead of inside an art gallery to make people aware that they are contributing to the cycle. I thought it was very cool that an artist can use their work to reach a broader crowd and make them aware of technological and ecological issues going on in our world.
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The next speaker, James Gimzewski, talked about nanotechnology and the many uses of nanobubbles which I found very interesting. Nanobubbles can be used for Malaria detection, gene delivery, drug delivery to cancer cells, prevention of suffocation from patients suffering breathing or respiratory problems, wastewater treatment, etc. In one case, he explained that one man saved a 370 acre wetlands in Peru by using such a simple piece of nanotechnology as nanobubbles, which made me realize what a difference just one person can have if they decide they want to help our environment.
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Work Cited

"ECO-CENTRIC ART+SCIENCE SYMPOSIUM: Prophesies and Predictions." Eventbrite. N.p., n.d. Web. 24 Apr. 2017.

"Nanobubbles Applications." Bauer Nanobubbles. N.p., n.d. Web. 24 Apr. 2017.

Narayan, Divya. Development and Applications of Nanobubbles. N.p., n.d. Web. 24 Apr. 2017.

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