Month: July 2010

Winners of Toe-Up 2-at-a-Time Socks

Photography by © John Gruen, from Toe-Up 2-at-a Time Socks by © Melissa Morgan-Oakes, used with permission from Storey Publishing. Congrats to Ellen from Briarcliff Manor, NY, Mary Anne from Ontario, Canada and Nina from Vancouver, Canada, for each winning a copy of Toe-Up 2-at-a-Time Socks by Melissa Morgan-Oaks from our recent giveaway. Thanks to […]

How-To: Levitate a pencil lead

Prolific, anonymous YouTube DIY science guru NurdRage, who in the past has brought us instructions for synthesizing trichlorophenyl oxalate (TCPO) and instructions for using it to make homemade glowstickx, presents this cool video and corresponding Instructable showing how to demonstrate diamagnetic levitation using common pencil lead instead of the usual (and expensive) pyrolytic graphite.