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The Joy of Toys was the theme of National Chemistry Week a couple years ago. This site has explanations behind toy...

Day 2 Day 4 Our damp blue piles of salt are not as garden-like as I hoped. I knew there were ...

Just created my first post for the GeekDad blog on Wired.com. Yes, they know I'm not a dad. No, I'm not going to start lobbying the...

My next Hands-On Learning column for Home Education Magazine will be a crystal-growing project, and there are several versions I want to tr...

As an introduction to crystal-growing, I thought it would be helpful to talk about solutions. We did two experiments from Chapter...

Just something clever I stumbled over ... photos of experiments displayed at Science in Action, organized by the Bagalore Association for Sc...

Happy Birthday Bill Nye ! (Boy, that spinning head used to freak out my youngest when he was a baby...)