HOW TO – Feed the Birds 01/30/2009 Birds have a hard time finding food in the winter – Crafty Crow has a great roundup of lots of...
Physics of music and musical instruments 01/29/2009 Tufts University has a really good book available online about the physics of music and musical instruments. It’s a nice...
Matt Shlian Paper Sculpture 01/29/2009 Artist and paper engineer Matt Shlian makes incredible art with paper. The unfolding piece below is one of the most...
The Museum of Unnatural History 01/28/2009 Please join me on a tour of Elaine Bradford‘s Museum of Unnatural History, where taxidermy and crochet are both taken...
Collapsible hoops 01/27/2009 My friend Michelle has been hooping, and sent me this link to instructions for making your own hoops, including a...
HOW TO – Valentine Pretzels 01/27/2009 Maya Made shares the recipe and instructions for making these cute heart-shaped pretzels. This is a great project to do...
Make lenses from Jell-O 01/26/2009 The Optical Society of America has a very cool site about the science of light. I found instructions for making...
1917 Eaton’s Spring/Summer Catalog 01/26/2009 I was looking through the old catalogs photostream that Evil Mad Scientist linked to recently, and found this Eaton’s catalog...
1914 Cyclopedia of 5,000 Puzzles…By Sam Loyd 01/25/2009 I was looking through the old catalogs photostream that Evil Mad Scientist linked to recently, and found this very cool...
LEGO Swimming Pool Insect Terminator (SPIT) 01/25/2009 Bluetoothkiwi documents his LEGO Mindstorms Swimming Pool Insect Terminator (SPIT) – it’s a great example of the process of problem-solving....