The Future of Nursing; Precise Geodetic Infrastructure; Panel Reports—New Worlds, New Horizons in Astronomy and Astrophysics; and more

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Every day we rely upon intuition for insights when logic and existing knowledge are exhausted. Artists and researchers from the Imaging Research Center (IRM) at University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC) have created a visualization of what is going on inside our brains when we use our intuition. Learn more about Imagining Intuition, an IRM/NAS collaboration for the USA Science and Engineering Festival Expo. A Summary of the February 2010 Forum on the Future of Nursing: Education As the U.S. health care system continues to evolve, the role of nurses also needs to evolve. Nurses must strike a delicate balance among advancing science, translating and applying research, and caring for individuals and families across all settings... Assessing the Effects of the Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill on Human Health: A Summary of the June 2010 Workshop From the origin of the leak, to the amount of oil released into the environment, to the spill's duration, the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill poses unique challenges to human health. The risks associated with extensive, prolonged use of dispersants... Panel Reports--New Worlds, New Horizons in Astronomy and Astrophysics Prepublication Every ten years the National Research Council releases a survey of astronomy and astrophysics outlining priorities for the coming decade. The most recent survey, entitled New Worlds, New Horizons in Astronomy and Astrophysics, provides overall... Precise Geodetic Infrastructure: National Requirements for a Shared Resource Prepublication Geodesy is the science of accurately measuring and understanding three fundamental properties of Earth: its geometric shape, its orientation in space, and its gravity field, and the changes of these properties with time. Over the past half century, the United... School Meals: Building Blocks for Healthy Children Download Podcast Unsubscribe To unsubscribe from this list please go here or reply to this message with "unsubscribe" in the subject line. To manage your subscriptions and account preferences go here. Copyright © 2010. National Academies Press. 500 Fifth St. N.W., Washington, D.C. 20001. Privacy Statement