Our geek BFF, Jeri Ellsworth, has tickled our exploratory fancies again (and continued to push the “don’t try this at home” envelope) with a chemistry hack of re-doping common ZnS:Cu green glow powder to arrive at her own blue electroluminescent (EL) powder. Nice work, Jer! Make Electroluminescent (EL) Ink at Home – Re-doping Glow Powder
Lion Brand Yarn has some great knitting and crochet Halloween costume patterns. Choose from the cat headband and wrist warmers, ogre headband and wrist warmers, and witchy hand. I could see myself wearing those cat wrist warmers all winter!
President to Host White House Science Fair… On Monday, October 18th, President Obama will host the White House Science Fair celebrating the winners of a broad range of science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) competitions. The President will view exhibits of these students’ work, ranging from breakthrough basic research to new inventions, followed by remarks […]
Via Nature comes this amazing video of an x-ray trip through a barnacle-encrusted lump from a 17th century shipwreck. It reveals the workings of a very sophisticated, gorgeous watchwork mechanism inside. The researchers (from National Museums Scotland in Edinburgh) who used this x-ray technology are excited about the prospects of using it on future, similarly […]
From CRAFT (Lish Dorset writes): How have I not seen this before? OK, the next chocolate bar I want is this one. Watch out, Han Solo. Via Instructables
Crafty mama Carrie Lundell did a great job of taking a tutorial on the Savers thrift store site to the max with her garden of zombie Barbie dolls. I love this image of the zombie Barbie assembly line and her daughter “creepifying” one of the dolls. I second Carrie’s emotion when she says she can’t […]
I recently came across the blog Handmade by Mother, in which Victoria Dunn posts up (and occasionally mocks) vintage patterns. In truth, I really just wanted to share this photo. The boy on the right looks like he’s about to break the clarinet over his knee and go postal. I guess this is a reminder […]
