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Christmas Gift Ideas Under $25... Make a List!
40hz:
I'd love some good science based toy ideas for kids all ages - not the gimmicky stuff, but stuff that will be fun while perhaps encouraging a passion for knowing...
-iphigenie (December 10, 2008, 06:48 AM)
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Most of the decent science kits I've seen are fairly expensive. This link has a bunch of great DIY science projects. Every so often, when I get bored, I'll do something off of this website. Quite a lot of fun, not to mention being educational.
Link: http://scitoys.com/
If you'd like to browse for something you can buy ready-made, take a look at this site. They carry almost every science kit you could want at all price levels.
Link: http://www.discoverthis.com/
ewemoa:
Cartoon guide to (Physics, Statistics, Chemistry, etc.) series. All about $13 each. Fantastic books even for adults.
-mouser (December 05, 2008, 11:43 PM)
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I read the Genetics one and the Statistics one and felt they were helpful for acquiring some basic understanding -- I'm not a specialist in either field but I got the sense they might be fairly good places to get some initial exposure :)
FWIW, I remember interfacing with further material after reading the Genetics one and feeling that some parts of it were getting dated. I hope if my impression is not off it gets updated at some point.
On a somewhat-related note, I found translations [1] of Chih-Chung Tsai's [2] works to be nice. I liked some of the Tao/Dao-related ones in particular. The following may produce a list of some of the English translations via Amazon.com:
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/external-search/?keyword=chih-chung%20tsai&mode=blended&Go=o
My impression of looking through this list is that there have been at least 2 separate series of attempts to publish translations -- I only have direct experience w/ one of the books from the earlier 199x set.
[1] I read "The Tao Speaks: Lao-Tzu's Whispers of Wisdom" in English and I think I looked through a few of one of the Zhuangzi ones in some CJK language.
[2] IIRC, the author is from Taiwan and the originals are in some Chinese language.
cranioscopical:
Bit late, but I just received one of these
Beats using my electric shaver on the potatoes!
TAF2000:
Beats using my electric shaver on the potatoes!
-cranioscopical (December 23, 2008, 08:58 AM)
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An Electric Shaver?!?
cranioscopical:
Beats using my electric shaver on the potatoes!
-cranioscopical (December 23, 2008, 08:58 AM)
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An Electric Shaver?!?
-TAF2000 (December 23, 2008, 01:31 PM)
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Have I been doing something wrong?
Surely you don't want mashed potato with a five-'o-clock shadow!
You do mash yours with a rolling pin, right? Or is that only for squash?
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