Re:KiwiCo Eureka Crate: Monthly Science Kit Subscription
by paulchap on Saturday June 27, 2020 @07:34AM
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I think I read about something about a subscription bankrolled by the US government in an early edition of Make Magazine (2006-ish). Every month you'd get an item + a booklet of some sort which suggested an experiment. Apparently you got things like small fossils, and if I remember correctly, a small chunk of some radioactive material. It got cancelled in the 70s... I'll see if I can find it again.
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Re:KiwiCo Eureka Crate: Monthly Science Kit Subscription
by ementi on Saturday June 27, 2020 @07:39AM
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Oh cool, I wonder if a similar program like this could work now. I’ll try to find it also.
Re:KiwiCo Eureka Crate: Monthly Science Kit Subscription
by paulchap on Saturday June 27, 2020 @08:11AM
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Found it! Things of Science: http://ecg.mit.edu/george/tos/ for the price of 5$/year.
[edit: looks like I misremembered though, neither the Make article nor the website mention radioactivity... must have got it mixed up with something like this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gilbert_U-238_Atomic_Energy_La...]