DIY science is the perfect way to use your creative skills and learn something new. With the right supplies, some determination, and a curious mind, you can create amazing experiments that open up a whole world of possibilities. At home-made laboratories or tech workshops, makers from all backgrounds can explore new ideas by finding ways to study their environment in novel ways – allowing them to make breathtaking discoveries!
Robert shows you an interesting science experiment using a water balloon and a candle – This is a variation of an old, Victorian parlor trick, but even after over 100 years, it is still just as amazing. In Victorian times, the experiment was done by folding a calling card (much like a modern business card) […]
The world’s oldest car is up for sale, low miles, only two owners… steam powered – A steam-powered car, billed as the oldest car in the world that still runs, will be sold in a Pebble Beach, Calif., auction in August. The car was built in France in 1884, about a year before Gottlieb Daimler […]
The CDC made a series of cards you can collect, trade and share… of diseases. They were created to get middle school kids interested in science and health. Apparently they’re out of stock, but you can go to the site and download the files to print out. Here’s some West Nile. More: Sick Idea: CDC […]
Freshly Blended points to Remake, a shop on Etsy that creates beautiful paper goods using salvaged materials. All of their items from cards to labels are silk screened and sewn by hand. [ via ] Link.
ScienceHack is a video search engine that has a nice chunk of science related videos, I poked around a bit and they did a pretty good job of finding some of the better ones from YouTube – The video here is a time lapse of radishes growing… Time lapse sequence shot using a digital camera […]
What happens when 30,000 match-heads are ignited? This. The mushroom cloud is pretty impressive.
R. Stern made a nice FedEx lunch bag, good use/reuse for the Tyvek – I made my boyfriend a reusable lunch bag out of a FedEx Tyvek mailing envelope. I modeled it after a paper lunch sack. To keep glue away from our food, I used a sewing machine to do up the seams. Because […]
