Comments on: Discovery Box: pre-stocked cabinet of curiosity for kids http://boingboing.net/2013/01/09/world-discovery-box-pre-stock.html Brain candy for Happy Mutants Mon, 20 May 2013 03:15:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.1 By: yahoo-RQOZEB7VFPOF2ZG3P6IDS5QLJM http://boingboing.net/2013/01/09/world-discovery-box-pre-stock.html#comment-1625488 yahoo-RQOZEB7VFPOF2ZG3P6IDS5QLJM Fri, 11 Jan 2013 15:48:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=204801#comment-1625488 Looks more like a box for those without curiosity.  Defeats the purpose of collecting. Looks more like a box for those without curiosity.  Defeats the purpose of collecting.

]]> By: Robert Cruickshank http://boingboing.net/2013/01/09/world-discovery-box-pre-stock.html#comment-1624564 Robert Cruickshank Thu, 10 Jan 2013 16:40:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=204801#comment-1624564 Hate to be snarky,  but a lot of that stuff looks like it was  killed for the collector market. A plane ticket to where the actual starfish is happily living costs about as much as this box. And don't get me started on the dyed agates. Hate to be snarky,  but a lot of that stuff looks like it was  killed for the collector market. A plane ticket to where the actual starfish is happily living costs about as much as this box. And don’t get me started on the dyed agates.

]]> By: Jen Onymous http://boingboing.net/2013/01/09/world-discovery-box-pre-stock.html#comment-1624010 Jen Onymous Wed, 09 Jan 2013 22:28:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=204801#comment-1624010 How lovely! In 20/20 hindsight, I'm glad that the combined contents of my parents' and my best friends' parents basements were a natural version of this.  Mom has a bio degree and had TONS of stuff from her grad school years--mounted slides, stuff in jars, etc--down there.  She also loved fossils and geodes and stuff and we had tons of them in and around the house.  We also had a full set of lab test tubes, Erlenmeyer flasks, glass tube distillers, and so forth.  Best Friend's dad was an electrical engineer and an inventor; he had a bunch of old oscilloscopes, radio bits and pieces, motors, gears, belts, fans, wires, etc etc etc. Over the years, all this stuff got played with; the lab stuff was used to mix odd crap from the contents of the kitchen/bathroom, we built things that whirred and  smoked and sometimes caught fire, and dug up various backyards looking for our own fossils/stones to polish/bugs to gawk at. Whenever we had a "team science project" growing up, we would always buddy up if we could.  Good memories.  How lovely!

In 20/20 hindsight, I’m glad that the combined contents of my parents’ and my best friends’ parents basements were a natural version of this.  Mom has a bio degree and had TONS of stuff from her grad school years–mounted slides, stuff in jars, etc–down there.  She also loved fossils and geodes and stuff and we had tons of them in and around the house.  We also had a full set of lab test tubes, Erlenmeyer flasks, glass tube distillers, and so forth.  Best Friend’s dad was an electrical engineer and an inventor; he had a bunch of old oscilloscopes, radio bits and pieces, motors, gears, belts, fans, wires, etc etc etc.

Over the years, all this stuff got played with; the lab stuff was used to mix odd crap from the contents of the kitchen/bathroom, we built things that whirred and  smoked and sometimes caught fire, and dug up various backyards looking for our own fossils/stones to polish/bugs to gawk at.

Whenever we had a “team science project” growing up, we would always buddy up if we could. 

Good memories. 

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