We gave owl pellet dissection kits as party favors a couple of years ago – they’re easy to put together and make great holiday gifts! We included a couple of owl pellets, dissecting forceps, a magnifier (we like the Private Eye loupe, you can nest them for higher magnification) and a Riker box to display […]
Adventures in Ethics and Science blog has a nice mention of the MAKE Chemistry Gift Guide. I was marveling at the Chemistry gift guide at MAKE. It has lots of cool items for your budding chemist/mad scientist of any age looking to equip his or her basement/garage/treehouse laboratory. (It’s pretty hard to get fume-hoods installed […]
Think Anatomy points us to Anatomy Arcade, an anatomy learning site with free flash games, including Poke-A-Muscle, Whack-A-Bone, and a bunch of cool jigsaw puzzles.
Seattle’s Woodland Park Zoo is in the process of building a new Humboldt penguin exhibit that conserves energy; they’re installing a natural filtration system, and they’re using geothermal energy to keep the pool at a penguin-pleasing temperature range of 50-60 degrees Farenheit. State-of-the-art engineering allows the new penguin exhibit to help us reduce our environmental […]
We’ve covered this simple kitchen-table science project before: how to make a spectrometer from a cereal box and a CD. Here, PopSci offers a 5-minute video on the project. More: A CD – cereal box spectrometer
MAKE reader James Coxon emailed to tell us about the recent Cambridge University Spaceflight project that teamed up university students with kids from the SPARKS science club to send four teddy bears aloft via helium filled high altitude balloon. The aim of the experiment was to determine which materials provided the best insulation against the […]
Popular Science’s Adam Weiner points out this entertaining example of Newton’s First Law of Motion, “a body continues to maintain its state of rest or of uniform motion unless acted upon by an external unbalanced force”. In this case, meaning those carts wanted to stay where they were.
