We’ve already discussed our best selling science experiment book - The Book of Totally Irresponsible Science.
But did you know that the publisher made a cool promotional video to go along with it? Watch it and some of the cool experiments that are described in the book!
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The print world is rife with all kinds of nature guides. Most of them have a big disadvantage right from the get-to: They are heavy, thick books. This means that they are usually well packed with info, and are sized smaller than most books. But just because a book is reduced to the size of […]
We’ve been trying to get more videos of our lab products online. Here is one of our mini centrifuge
This video gives a good sense of the compact size & power of this little lab machine. It is an excellent choice for labs where space is at a premium or where larger, more expensive models are […]
We’ve already posted about how you can ‘adopt’ a star in the stellar region the Kepler Mission is examining for planetary bodies via the Pale Blue Dot Project.
Well it is 2010 and already Kepler seems to have found some new planets!. The best part is that many of these stars have not been adopted, so […]
A telescope’s eyepieces are often one of the most underrated parts of the optical system. Many folks get caught up with aperture fever or drool over high-end apochromatic refractors while neglecting the fact that the eyepiece is almost 1/2 the optical system!
Most telescopes include 1 or 2 eyepieces. Depending on the model and the manufacturer […]
Frankly, you just aren’t going to have this kind of fun for just $3.99. That’s less than $1 per colorful finger light!
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400 years ago today Galileo observed the moons of Jupiter. Thus beginning one of the most important events in science/astronomy history. Frankly, I don’t have the words to describe this event and its importance, especially when there are those who do it so much better. I am speaking of Phil Plaitt, the Bad Astronomer:
http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2010/01/07/the-galilean-revolution-400-years-later/
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A friend of the store sent us this picture of a ‘microscope kit’ he found at a drug store during the holidays. This same kit could have been found in a department store or general toy store:
You see these things pop up in big stores, especially around the holidays. They are bought at a low […]
A couple of popular books we sell are Gallop and the more human oriented Swing. Both of these books use a nifty technology called Scanimation to produce the appearance of motion.
Scanimation is actually a new twist on an old optics technique known as Moire Patterns, where sets of parallel lines placed over each other […]
