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”.
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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 […]
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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 […]
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Anyone can make their own flaming, fuming, booming DIY chemistry set as good as those from the golden age, or better!
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Over on Cool Tool, Kevin Kelly has written a great review of the
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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 […]
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