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about the book
Find plenty of exciting ways for your children to explore the world around them. This book will inspire the whole household to embrace a little danger. Learn More
You know you’re an extreme parent when…
Had to pop in with this one. There’s an interesting article on CNN.com today about “Extreme Parents”, which are sort of the larval form of the helicopter parents we’ve all heard about. Some of the stories are too crazy …
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Live ROV feeds, anyone?
UPDATE: The link here is no longer active, unfortunately. Because of bandwidth cost (the video has to be uplinked from the surface vessel operating the ROV via satellite to a land-based system) and propriatary information, now that the Macondo …
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Okay, I couldn’t resist sharing this
My old work colleage Eddie Hernandez blogs about a very tinkering-oriented way to clean a children’s toy castle repurposed as a hamster habitat.
Added on edit: Eddie pointed me to this earlier entry wherein his young engineers build …
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My last guest blog for this shift… and tinkering on TV
I’ve come to the end of my guest week. I’ll be handing the keyboard to Mary Beth Trautwein starting tomorrow, as the Seniors start at Tinkering School.
I’ve had fun doing this, and I hope you have enjoyed …
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Friday: gateway to tinkering with stuff
It’s Friday! And it was payday at Nameless Employer, which means a small group of us go for Thai food at lunch.
Which has absolutely nothing whatsoever to do with what I did when I got home after work.…
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Checking the Tweets…
And now a few tweets from our fearless leader:
My little pal Bor and his dad were fooling around with a battery-powered flashlight and created this: http://flic.kr/p/8nCDjF #fun
Five years in a scanner-mounted ant-colony – life=art: http://bit.ly/apA0Aa #clever…
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The Summer of Danger(ous) Things, continued
My predecessor as guest blogger, Deb Nies, has published Part IX of her and her tween’s exploration of Fifty Dangerous Things (you should let your children do) on Examiner.com.
Go, read about using a knife and then throwing a …
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Sometimes, you just need to go down to the shop.
The life of a working engineer seems to have an awful lot of desk time involved. Which can be entertaining when you’re actively designing stuff — a reasonably powerful computer and modern CAD software is a great tool for …
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Great news for Fifty Dangerous Things!
Straight from the man himself’s Twitter feed:
…@gever It’s official! @juliecracker and I have just signed a book deal with Penguin/NAL (for #50DT) – woo hoo! Thanks Jeff! (our agent)
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Keeping the sense of wonder… and why that’s good.
We’re going to start off this one with a great piece of video: Adam Savage’s TED talk about making his own dodo bird skeleton out of Sculpey and his obsession with making a dead-nuts-accurate copy of The Maltese Falcon…
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