Archives for November 30, 2011
We need this law in the USA!
Posted by Greg Laden on November 30, 2011 Hat Tip Scott Brophy, who also wrote this great blog post: OMFG. WSJ Gets Loopy. Me, Too.
A garden in my apartment
Posted by Greg Laden on November 30, 2011 Britta Riley wanted to grow her own food (in her tiny apartment). So she and her friends developed a system for growing plants in discarded plastic bottles — researching, testing and tweaking the system using social media, trying many variations at once and quickly arriving at the optimal system. Call it distributed DIY. And the…
soda. pop. snap.
Posted by Greg Laden on November 30, 2011 The other day, and I kid you not, I saw someone say to someone else “would you like a soda” and the person stared back and said “why would I want a soda” and a third party repeated the question, only saying “would you like a pop” and the person said “yes, very much, thank…
100 Amazing Experiments: Book
Posted by Greg Laden on November 30, 2011 New York Academy of Sciences Children’s Science Book Award Winner Vicki Cobb has a new volume called “See for Yourself: More Than 100 Amazing Experiments for Science Fairs and Projects (Second Edition)” Actually, it isn’t entirely new. It’s a second edition, but updated. This is for 10 year olds and up, and it does in…
, which is now available for the 
