
If you're a science teacher, an amateur scientist, or a professional who likes to take his work home with him, you'll lust after this CD-ROM. The updated and expanded disk contains the "legacy of a century," the complete collection of The Amateur Scientist columns from Scientific American magazine, featuring Albert G. Ingalls, C.L. Strong, Jearl Walker, Forrest Mims, Shawn Carlson and others. It includes over 1,000 classic projects in various disciplines for hobbyists, students and science fair contestants, more than 1,000 pages of helpful techniques that never appeared in the magazine, plus Internet links to valuable scientific sites. Minimum requirements: PPC (Mac) or Pentium, 64 MB RAM, Internet Explorer 4.0 or Netscape 4.7 (recommended browser). As a browser-based product, it should also work under Unix and Linux. An incredible resource. An Absolutely-Must-Have!
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92047 AMATEUR SCIENTIST CD |
The "Starry Night Sky Explorer" CD from Imaginova® lets you view the night sky from anywhere on the planet, go forward or back in time, or fly around the galaxy as if you had a personal starship. Also prints star charts and has downloadable updates. Targeted to beginning and intermediate stargazers. You'll need Windows XP or Mac OS 10.3 for the force to be with you. An excellent value.
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93334 STARRY NIGHT |
Microscope images of household items like match heads, peach skin, and bedbugs. Nifty color and black and white photos, at different levels of magnification. "Did you know?" sidebars provide interesting tidbits about the stuff you're looking at. Published by Golden Books(tm) for the Campbells(r) Soup folks. Softcover (9" x 11" ), 39 pages.
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26792 DISCOVER HIDDEN WORLDS |
Periodic table of the elements nicely presented as a 3-hole-punched 8-1/4" x 11" insert for a looseleaf notebook. It's a double-sided trifold with peripheral information, including instructions on how to read the chart. A brightly colored and useful reference for everyone from teachers to chemists.
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88638 PERIODIC TABLE |
Find out if you are alive, and if so, whether your blood pressure is so low you will tip over when you stand up. This home blood pressure kit includes the usual D-ring cuff, a nurses' stethoscope and full instructions on their use. Not a toy, it is the real thing. Great for monitoring your health and for educational purposes. It is a two-party set, meaning it is most easily used by two people. Anyone want to play doctor?
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91502 BLOOD PRESSURE KIT |
You say you can't get your kids interested in nanotechnology? Try a little something closer to the cable box with Lark Books' "Crime Scene Science Fair Projects." It's a 112pp hardcover book with full-color illustrations and photos, along with step-by-step instructions for experiments with blood, DNA, lie detection, print casting, handwriting analysis, document recovery, and for gathering data from chemicals, soil, insect and fiber remains. Geared to middle-schoolers, and no, you don't need an actual crime scene. (Most of their bedroom floors will do nicely.)
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93356 CRIME SCENE |
And launch or crash a bunch of other stuff? Get this 80pp hardcover book of 42 simple science experiments that demonstrate basic scientific principles, while providing a fair amount of kid-pleasing destruction along the way -- all with common household materials. By Rain Newcomb and Bobby Mercer; in full color with illustrations, from Lark Books. Ages 9 and up.
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93145 "SMASH IT..." |
Serendipity S-Us. Your cube of white note paper will have somebody’s logo on (4) sides, even if it isn’t yours, and it will add interesting variety to your life. The 2-3/4” cube has self-adhesive sheets.
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35739 2-3/4" NOTE CUBE |
Good prices on credit–card–size calculators 3–5/8” x 2–3/16”. (All right, at 1/4” thick maybe they’re credit–card–on–steroids–size calculators.) They have % and square–root keys, memory functions, on/off switches. Each comes with a battery, ready to go. Choose one with rubber grips on the side (add 3/8” to the width) or with a powered cover/stand. We’ll throw in the promotional misprints at no charge.
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34620 CALCULATOR W/GRIP |
Bunsen-Dibdin photometer box for mounting on a meter stick. Normally used in a physics lab together with light sources that also mount on the stick, you could rig up your own lights and have a complete lab experiment set. Cenco #86445, it is often sold as a replacement item. No instructions.
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30287 PHOTOMETER BOX |
Out of sight is out of mind. Now you can post notes on a calendar without obliterating three days worth of appointments, or on a contract without covering the fine print. Read right through these self–stick Z–Notes® that come in see–through white and neon Clear Colors™. Pads of (50) come in large (3” x 5”) or medium (2” x 3”). The small notes (1” x 1–3/4”) are a pack of (2) pads of (25) white sheets.
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31456 WHITE NOTES, SM |
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