I was excited to see a good friend, Mona, start blogging about her experience running a science center located north of the arctic circle. It's fascinating reading. They're designing interactive exhibits and experiments: everything from visualizing DNA to creating 5-meter-high geisers of Coke and computer-controlled Lego greenhouses . Mona has a background in marine microbiology, she's an innovative teacher, and her science center is situated in the Northern Lights Planetarium in Tromsø, northern