Games & toys

Another week, another scientifically themed product on Etsy. This one’s… different. It’s a doll of BF Skinner, with pigeons. Skinner is famous for inventing the “Skinner box”, in which animals …

This amuses me. These are crayon labels that you can stick on Crayola crayons. It covers up the existing names, like “burnt orange” and “carnation pink”, and replaces them with …

Google has a wonderful tradition of adapting its logo to current events. There is a pattern to the days that get Doodles: they are usually national holidays, human rights or …

SciBarCamb is over, but it was awesome this year! I am the worst at live-tweeting, but luckily Lou and Laura and lots of other enthusiastic Twitter-users were at hand to …

I recently spent a week and a half in Toronto, after having been gone for nine months, and the city’s changed already! There’s a stretch of Bloor street that’s notorious …

Etsy seller electricboogaloo sells nerdy baby gifts. I’ve seen the nerdy baby ABCs several times on different sites, but this morning was the first time I saw Pat Schroedinger’s Kitty …