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  • Hi, I'm Ashlee Vance,

  • and welcome to my living room here in California.

  • We've got about seven rolls of toilet paper left

  • and two wonderful boys helping out,

  • filming me right over here.

  • We obviously can't do Hello World like we normally would,

  • so this is the from home version.

  • We thought we'd try to take this challenge as an opportunity

  • to take all our viewers on kind of a trip around the world

  • to see what different inventors and scientists

  • and technologists are up to.

  • The first place we're gonna head to is New Zealand.

  • I've got a friend there named Michelle Dickinson,

  • she's a scientist who has been out front

  • talking about the virus.

  • So, off we go to New Zealand first to meet Michelle.

  • My name is Dr. Michelle Dickinson

  • and I am a nanotechnologist having worked in the tech sector

  • for 20 years around the world.

  • And a couple of years ago I decided to quit my hardware job

  • and move to helping educate kids and parents

  • about science and technology, and get more kids involved

  • who might not see themselves as scientists or engineers.

  • We were a company who traveled around the world

  • with our live theater shows

  • and our school teacher training programs.

  • And then that died.

  • So, yay.

  • Thanks, COVID.

  • So, this hits, and your business has to change.

  • And so, what have you done?

  • How have you adapted on the fly?

  • We said to our team,

  • "What do people need in this lockdown?"

  • And as we saw schools were closing,

  • we spoke to teachers and they said,

  • "We've never done online teaching before.

  • "We don't know what that is."

  • And they said, "The thing we're gonna drop first is STEM,"

  • so science and technology.

  • They said, "That's too hard for us to do online."

  • I just said, "Well, this is what we do.

  • "How can we help provide something to kids

  • "to help them build their confidence in STEM?"

  • Hi, I'm NanoGirl and I want to be a...

  • Superhero!

  • And so, we developed an online platform

  • that basically helps kids build their science superpowers.

  • This week, the superpower I'm trying to get

  • is the power to fight baddies like viruses, yuck.

  • I saw some of the first lessons were about COVID,

  • what is it, and making your own special soap

  • to deal with it.

  • It's so simple, but parents were like,

  • "My kids won't wash their hands.

  • "I need to motivate them."

  • We said, "Well, if you make the Superpower Soap

  • "where it's got that superhero sticker in it,

  • "they'll get super powers every time they touch this soap."

  • And parents have said literally the kids love their soap,

  • they're washing their hands all the time

  • to get super powers.

  • And it just helped to motivate them.

  • Look at that, we destroyed our baddie,

  • the virus is destroyed.

  • You are the superhero.

  • Our kids, actually they've sort of accepted all this

  • really well, I feel like, but it is, it's nuts.

  • And you're lucky Ashlee, right, 'cause you're tech savvy.

  • But there are millions of parents around the world

  • who science and tech wasn't their thing,

  • and they go back to their 13-year-old fearful self

  • of a Bunsen burner and a Petri dish when we talk about it.

  • And so, we're all about how do we empower those people,

  • those people who haven't touched science for 40 years,

  • maybe, to be able to have these conversations about viruses.

  • And how you transfer it, and what they actually are,

  • and what they could do without it being too fearful.

  • Because we understand when we're talking to kids

  • we've got to help them understand that it's serious,

  • but also not induce so much anxiety

  • that they become petrified of everything.

  • So how do people find this?

  • So nanogirllabs.com is how you basically find it.

  • We're on all of the channels, social, you name it.

  • Destroy the virus baddies, yay!

  • You can look at our free stuff,

  • and if you want to subscribe you can.

  • If you can't afford to,

  • just press the I can't afford to do this button

  • and we'll try and give you free access.

  • As some of the lockdowns started,

  • I caught you on the Internet

  • with the prime minister in New Zealand.

  • It seemed like you were educating people about COVID.

  • Yeah, so luckily,

  • I guess New Zealand has been slightly behind the COVID curve

  • in that we've got to watch other countries do their thing

  • and use a lot of data.

  • We have a prime minister

  • who has worked really hard on communication.

  • She's brought me into that team to communicate to the nation

  • about what is COVID, what should we do,

  • how can we help each other.

  • Lots of people getting questions around,

  • how to explain what this is to children?

  • So, the easiest way to explain it,

  • is if your child has had the common cold, for example,

  • they would have had a virus that had a dangly bit

  • that attaches to our nose.

  • And it would have stuck to our nose and made them sick.

  • The Covid-19 we're talking about,

  • it has a different dangly bit, and it attaches to our lungs.

  • One of the things we've done really well in New Zealand,

  • I think, is set up an alert system pretty early that said,

  • here's the alert system, it's four levels,

  • and here's where we are now,

  • and this is what moving to the next levels will look like.

  • That allowed everybody to prepare early.

  • We're on a lockdown, but everybody seems to be playing ball

  • and our supermarkets are full of food

  • 'cause nobody panic-bought

  • 'cause they knew what the message was early on.

  • You locked down super early

  • before there was kind of hardly any cases.

  • And so this was just about wanting to be what,

  • just incredibly proactive on this

  • and sort of get ahead of things?

  • Yeah, and communication has been great.

  • We haven't just communicated it to those who watch politics.

  • We did a press conference just for children in parliament.

  • That was really important because obviously children

  • are a big part of this as well as everybody else.

  • So, our job as superheros

  • is to stop the virus from spreading.

  • And we wanted to include them in the conversation,

  • so that they were also gonna take part in this

  • and understand their role.

  • As a scientist, how close attention are you paying

  • to how this is spreading and the treatments,

  • and is this something that you're really following deeply?

  • Look, I'm a nanotechnologist,

  • and a virus is literally as nanotech as you get.

  • So, I'm interested for many reasons.

  • One, I'm interested as a communicator as to how to explain

  • the world of the tiny and the invisible,

  • which is what I've done my whole life to everybody else,

  • 'cause I can understand how it might seem really scary

  • that there's this invisible pathogen

  • that might be fatal to us.

  • I think our scientific literacy as a population

  • has decreased over the past 10 years

  • as we haven't focused on science.

  • And so I'm just focused on making sure

  • that some of these complex medical journal publications

  • are actually explained in a way that people can,

  • help them to understand their life at home.

  • What can I do to control my environment

  • and my bubble to keep my family safe?

  • The US, we have this explosion in cases right now,

  • but I am deeply curious about how the US

  • is being perceived overseas.

  • Well, I think different countries are dealing with it

  • in different ways, and I think that's pretty sad actually

  • because this is a worldwide virus.

  • The virus is apolitical,

  • and it doesn't care about countries' borders.

  • And I think this is really a time

  • when we should be pulling together

  • and not trying something out and seeing what happens.

  • If there's inspiration in any of this,

  • it seems to be the way science has come through

  • all over the world, how quickly this got sequenced,

  • how quickly we're working on detection, on vaccines.

  • Is there gonna be some good that comes out of this

  • a year from now?

  • Look, I hope so.

  • I'm also seeing some bad coming out of it.

  • I think the lack of scientific literacy

  • means everybody believes everything that's coming in

  • and not able to have that scientific literacy to go,

  • is this a good or a bad idea?

  • How do I look this up?

  • I've talked to a couple of companies.

  • They've got vaccines and animal trials

  • and they're telling me, "Look, we know this is safe,

  • "if we don't have to go through the arduous process,

  • "we could get this to people much more quickly."

  • So, the thing with a vaccine,

  • and anytime you modify something in the body,

  • you are literally changing a person's immune system.

  • And that has two outcomes.

  • The great outcome is it makes you hopefully protected

  • against what is this virus right now.

  • But there's also an adverse reaction in that we don't know

  • how it's gonna affect your immune system in a different way.

  • So, what if we vaccinate everybody against COVID,

  • but suddenly you're more susceptible to something else.

  • And that's why long-term clinical trials

  • become really important.

  • It's those side effects that we need to look at.

  • Okay, this is Bowie.

  • This is Tucker.

  • Hey, Bowie and Tucker.

  • Did you guys have any questions about how New Zealand

  • is dealing with the virus?

  • Or about the virus, you know Michelle is a scientist.

  • How much on quarantine are you?

  • So, it's super serious here.

  • So, we have to stay at home

  • unless we are going to the supermarket,

  • and only one person from our home

  • is allowed to go to the supermarket,

  • you can't take everybody else,

  • or you're going to the pharmacy to pick up drugs.

  • You're allowed to go for a small walk every day,

  • but that is it.

  • So, all of our online shopping is off.

  • You cannot order anything online

  • unless it's medical or food.

  • All the takeout's shut.

  • So, everybody can only buy food from the grocery store

  • and then has to cook it at home.

  • Yeah, it's pretty strict.

  • Well, I think we are going to try to make one of your,

  • we're gonna go through one of the experiments.

  • I think we're gonna try to make the--

  • The catapult plane, it's my favorite,

  • make the catapult plane.

  • We're gonna do that,

  • and thanks so much for spending time with us.

  • Thank you, stay safe.

  • Why don't we make a paper plane that gets its thrust

  • and its power, not from an engine, but from an elastic band.

  • For this experiment, you will need scissors,

  • tape, and a pencil.

  • Start by measuring and drawing a rectangle.

  • Then, cut it out.

  • Fold your paper back.

  • Place your elastic band into that hook.

  • This is gonna be our launch mechanism.

  • Next, you want to draw a triangle on your piece of card.

  • You're gonna tape this bit to the underside of your plane.

  • Now you're ready to launch.

  • Three, two, one.

  • Ow!

Hi, I'm Ashlee Vance,

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