Comments on: Sciency Christmas Gifts for the Whole Family

By: @100essentials.com

@100essentials.com — Tue, 18 Dec 2012 09:18:53 +0000

Hey Mike thanks. I liked it the most 🙂

By: Tom Bassindale

Tom Bassindale — Thu, 13 Dec 2012 09:17:48 +0000

It is all about the geeky gifts!

I had a list of gifts for the forensic science obsessed on my blog here http://www.weareforensic.co.uk/christmas-gifts-for-the-forensic-science-geek-in-your-life/

By: MadScientist

MadScientist — Sun, 09 Dec 2012 05:11:29 +0000

Ah, to be consistent you can’t say you’re calling a truce to the War on Christmas and then say that Christmas is all about the presents – that’s precisely the sort of statement that gets the collective goat of the people who complain that there’s a war on Christmas.

How about a Dalek cookie jar that goes ape and screams “exterminate!” whenever someone takes the lid off to get a cookie (or to put cookies in for that matter).

By: Mike Lewinski

Mike Lewinski — Sun, 09 Dec 2012 02:28:19 +0000

I’ve got a dinolite USB microscope and have had great fun with it. In the end it wasn’t portable enough and I now get as good or better magnification of subjects using a telephoto lens and doubler

I took the USB microscope out into the desert once on a camping trip and tried walking from bush to bush with a netbook. It was awkward to say the least. But for two years I lived in a rustic cabin where the wildlife came right to my desk and for that it was great. I have a few photos from it tagged here:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/ikewinski/tags/usbmicroscope/

I feel a little like the guy who wrote this craigslist ad I flagged for best of… so much fun it was only used once:

http://albuquerque.craigslist.org/for/3463152497.html