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!
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 […]
Kathreen @ TreeHugger has a round up of plastic bag fabric projects, she writes – Plastic shopping bags are a scourge on the environment. What to do with all those plastic bags that seem to be just hanging around everywhere. One idea that seems to be a hit amongst the DIY and creative arty crowd […]
The Samurai says – The singing Tesla coils reminded me of the singing million dollar V10 engine… the Renault F1 engine. We are the champions – Link.
