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Chemistry at Home: Exploring the MEL Chemistry Kit
MEL Science is on a mission to make mail-order chemistry kits for kids big again. They’ll deliver two sets per month right to your door containing 1 – 3 chemistry experiments. From their website: “I don’t know about you, but…
Creepy costumes: radioactive Madame Curie
This year for Halloween, why not celebrate Marie Curie, the first woman to win the Nobel Prize? The good news (for you, not for her) is that she died a gruesome death as a result of exposure to the radioactive…
Water: Prankster of the Natural World Part 2
If you haven’t read part 1 (why would you do that?), here is a review of the scenario we are considering in part 2: Two identical containers of water (same volume, same container size and material) are placed into…
Zinc has bigger game than you do
Still struggling to pick out that one in a million Valentine’s Day gift? Worry no longer, because I have the perfect gift idea sure to make anyone melt. No – it’s not superhot plasma from your favorite star gone…
Even though Kim Kardashian’s marriage didn’t last, her engagement ring will. Like forever.
I have a joke for you: How long does a two million dollar engagement ring buy you with everyone’s favorite (well, mine anyways) Kardashian sister? As Kris Humphries found out, about 72 days. Sorry Kris, but at…