Comments on: Amateur science tools and resources at Make's new Science Room http://boingboing.net/2009/09/15/amateur-science-tool.html Brain candy for Happy Mutants Wed, 19 Jun 2013 09:31:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.1 By: Anonymous http://boingboing.net/2009/09/15/amateur-science-tool.html#comment-1134597 Anonymous Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-1134597 I still love to read the ads for home chemistry experiments, apparatus and set. I was really into this stuff as a kid. It had a lot to do with me becoming a pharmacist. I would rather see kids of today using chemistry sets rather than playing endlessly repetitive electronic games. Now that I am retired I find myself being drawn back into the hobby. I still love to read the ads for home chemistry experiments, apparatus and set. I was really into this stuff as a kid. It had a lot to do with me becoming a pharmacist. I would rather see kids of today using chemistry sets rather than playing endlessly repetitive electronic games. Now that I am retired I find myself being drawn back into the hobby.

]]> By: cy gideon http://boingboing.net/2009/09/15/amateur-science-tool.html#comment-813576 cy gideon Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-813576 Thanks to Robert B. Thompson for reintroducing the home chemistry of my youth. Home chemistry started me on my profession as a pharmacist. I can visualize todays youth being able to be inspired as I was. Nowe if we can get the government to cooperate.... Thanks to Robert B. Thompson for reintroducing the home chemistry of my youth. Home chemistry started me on my profession as a pharmacist. I can visualize todays youth being able to be inspired as I was. Nowe if we can get the government to cooperate….

]]> By: Robert Bruce Thompson http://boingboing.net/2009/09/15/amateur-science-tool.html#comment-589880 Robert Bruce Thompson Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-589880 <blockquote>I just made an annoying discovery - the Maker SHED doesn't carry test tubes, except as part of a kit. Two different racks, but no actual tubes.</blockquote> Actually, Maker Shed does carry test tubes, four sizes of them, in fact. If you search on "test tube" you'll see those items, as well as the racks and clamp. But I can sure understand why you thought Maker Shed didn't carry test tubes, because a lot of the individual items are not yet grouped into categories with landing pages. We're working on that right now. Sorry for the inconvenience. We should probably have an "under construction" icon posted for the next few days. Robert Bruce Thompson Maker Shed Science Room Curator

I just made an annoying discovery – the Maker SHED doesn’t carry test tubes, except as part of a kit. Two different racks, but no actual tubes.

Actually, Maker Shed does carry test tubes, four sizes of them, in fact. If you search on “test tube” you’ll see those items, as well as the racks and clamp. But I can sure understand why you thought Maker Shed didn’t carry test tubes, because a lot of the individual items are not yet grouped into categories with landing pages.

We’re working on that right now. Sorry for the inconvenience. We should probably have an “under construction” icon posted for the next few days.

Robert Bruce Thompson
Maker Shed Science Room Curator

]]> By: Rindan http://boingboing.net/2009/09/15/amateur-science-tool.html#comment-589647 Rindan Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-589647 This looks like the tools for building a young budding... TERRORIST! Quick! Someone call the DHS! No fly list these bastards! This looks like the tools for building a young budding… TERRORIST! Quick! Someone call the DHS! No fly list these bastards!

]]> By: BCaron http://boingboing.net/2009/09/15/amateur-science-tool.html#comment-589425 BCaron Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-589425 I had the BIG chemistry set (three panels, dozens of chemicals, big book of experiments... when I was in 4th grade. It was glorious. But then, I also remember diving boards at motels. hmmm. I had the BIG chemistry set (three panels, dozens of chemicals, big book of experiments… when I was in 4th grade. It was glorious. But then, I also remember diving boards at motels. hmmm.

]]> By: Stefan Jones http://boingboing.net/2009/09/15/amateur-science-tool.html#comment-589437 Stefan Jones Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-589437 #1: A friend down the street inherited one of those giant sets from a cousin or uncle or something. It was old even then (very late 60s / early 70s). When I asked my parents for a chemistry set I got this piece of crap outfit in a cardboard box. The chemicals came in paper envelopes. No alcohol burner or litmus paper or big book of projects. #1: A friend down the street inherited one of those giant sets from a cousin or uncle or something. It was old even then (very late 60s / early 70s).

When I asked my parents for a chemistry set I got this piece of crap outfit in a cardboard box. The chemicals came in paper envelopes. No alcohol burner or litmus paper or big book of projects.

]]> By: teufelsdroch http://boingboing.net/2009/09/15/amateur-science-tool.html#comment-589440 teufelsdroch Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-589440 http://www.sciplus.com/ http://www.sciplus.com/

]]> By: mydog http://boingboing.net/2009/09/15/amateur-science-tool.html#comment-590981 mydog Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-590981 In 1956, UNESCO brought out a great resource for societies recovering from the War. It was called <i>source book for science teaching</I> and had lists of all sorts of things a school could collect to teach about light, air, sound, electricity, forces and inertia, geology, to name just a few of the topics. Suggested resources came from gravel pits, woods, burned-over areas (should be plenty of them around if the climate continues to change!), saw mills, farms, creeks, roadsides, hardware shops, automobile repair workshops, drugstore, etc. I've noticed they updated it in 1973, [http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0000/000056/005641E.pdf] but I've still got the 1956 one - it's too wonderful to throw away, even though I gave up teaching a while ago. In 1956, UNESCO brought out a great resource for societies recovering from the War. It was called source book for science teaching and had lists of all sorts of things a school could collect to teach about light, air, sound, electricity, forces and inertia, geology, to name just a few of the topics.

Suggested resources came from gravel pits, woods, burned-over areas (should be plenty of them around if the climate continues to change!), saw mills, farms, creeks, roadsides, hardware shops, automobile repair workshops, drugstore, etc.

I’ve noticed they updated it in 1973, [http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0000/000056/005641E.pdf] but I’ve still got the 1956 one – it’s too wonderful to throw away, even though I gave up teaching a while ago.

]]> By: ROSSINDETROIT http://boingboing.net/2009/09/15/amateur-science-tool.html#comment-589719 ROSSINDETROIT Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-589719 When I was a teenager I went through a phase of electroplating every metallic object I could get my hands on. Dad's a pharmacist so copper sulfate was easy to come by. They warned me it was toxic but that didn't keep me from leaving it sitting around in solution in a water glass. My brother - 10 years younger - drank some. Barf, emergency room, no problem. The kid's been a research scientist for 10 years now. No idea if there's a connection. <a href="http://myfuturepast.blogspot.com/2009/09/how-science-works-peer-review.html"> We love science a whole lot.</a> When I was a teenager I went through a phase of electroplating every metallic object I could get my hands on. Dad’s a pharmacist so copper sulfate was easy to come by. They warned me it was toxic but that didn’t keep me from leaving it sitting around in solution in a water glass. My brother – 10 years younger – drank some. Barf, emergency room, no problem. The kid’s been a research scientist for 10 years now. No idea if there’s a connection. We love science a whole lot.

]]> By: Jaybot7 http://boingboing.net/2009/09/15/amateur-science-tool.html#comment-589497 Jaybot7 Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-589497 I wish I'd received one of those when I was a kid! I may just pick one up for myself now. Forget laptops for kids, they should be giving one of these to every kid for free ;) I wish I’d received one of those when I was a kid! I may just pick one up for myself now. Forget laptops for kids, they should be giving one of these to every kid for free ;)

]]> By: Daemon http://boingboing.net/2009/09/15/amateur-science-tool.html#comment-589770 Daemon Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-589770 I just made an annoying discovery - the Maker SHED doesn't carry test tubes, except as part of a kit. Two different racks, but no actual tubes. I just made an annoying discovery – the Maker SHED doesn’t carry test tubes, except as part of a kit. Two different racks, but no actual tubes.

]]> By: nanuq http://boingboing.net/2009/09/15/amateur-science-tool.html#comment-589516 nanuq Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-589516 Considering that police have arrested some of these kids with home chemistry labs on suspicious of being meth labs, home science may be pretty dangerous these days. http://www.physicsforums.com/archive/index.php/t-281823.html Considering that police have arrested some of these kids with home chemistry labs on suspicious of being meth labs, home science may be pretty dangerous these days.

http://www.physicsforums.com/archive/index.php/t-281823.html

]]> By: Gareth Branwyn http://boingboing.net/2009/09/15/amateur-science-tool.html#comment-589559 Gareth Branwyn Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-589559 All the more reason why a million home chem labs should bloom. All the more reason why a million home chem labs should bloom.

]]> By: cszostek http://boingboing.net/2009/09/15/amateur-science-tool.html#comment-589560 cszostek Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-589560 @ teufelsdroch, +12 to you. I was just about to mention them. I never had a home science kit growing up, lots of legos and rc motors but no chemistry. My girlfriend works there, great shop & source of many items/projects/books in my home. @ teufelsdroch,

+12 to you. I was just about to mention them. I never had a home science kit growing up, lots of legos and rc motors but no chemistry. My girlfriend works there, great shop & source of many items/projects/books in my home.

]]> By: Chris Tucker http://boingboing.net/2009/09/15/amateur-science-tool.html#comment-589563 Chris Tucker Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-589563 Here, kids. Don't tell your folks and BE CAREFUL! http://thepiratebay.org/torrent/4015400/The_Golden_Book_of_Chemistry_Experiments_%281960%29 Here, kids. Don’t tell your folks and BE CAREFUL!

http://thepiratebay.org/torrent/4015400/The_Golden_Book_of_Chemistry_Experiments_%281960%29

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