In 1962 SEARS made chemistry sets…
I spotted this on eBay, a 1962 chemistry set from SEARS. And here’s another from the 1950s, The Gilbert Experimental Lab. Love the packaging… “Today’s adventures in science will create tomorrow’s America”.
Chemistry
Teen with home chemistry lab mistakenly arrested for meth production
Annalee @ io9 pointed me towards a story we’ll likely hear again and again until authorities realize that we’re never going to encourage the next generation of chemists if we treat every kid with a home chem lab like a criminal… As Annalee said to me in email… “We should be championing this cool kid […]
Chemistry gift guide
Adventures in Ethics and Science blog has a nice mention of the MAKE Chemistry Gift Guide. I was marveling at the Chemistry gift guide at MAKE. It has lots of cool items for your budding chemist/mad scientist of any age looking to equip his or her basement/garage/treehouse laboratory. (It’s pretty hard to get fume-hoods installed […]
Great Balls of Fire! Make Your Own Chemistry Lab…
Anyone can make their own flaming, fuming, booming DIY chemistry set as good as those from the golden age, or better!
Tom Lehrer – “The Element Song”
By popular request . . .
Kevin Kelly reviews our home chemistry book
Over on Cool Tool, Kevin Kelly has written a great review of the
Elements and periodic table introduction
I found this introduction to the elements, and a breakdown of the periodic table on Chem4Kids – lots more interesting stuff on their site. As far as we know, there are only so many basic elements. Up to this point in time we have discovered/created over 100. While there may be more out there to […]
