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Vintage Inverted Microscope

May 20, 2014 // 0 Comments

Microscopes  and telescopes are amazing devices because they can “transport” us to other worlds at the speed of light. This is why we constantly scour [...]

Glow In The Dark Rocks

May 14, 2014 // 1 Comment

After  our recent post on the EXO camera stand, we started getting comments and suggestions on geology gear. That took us by surprise as we didn’t realize that [...]

Urban Safari: The Fens

May 12, 2014 // 0 Comments

The Fens in the Back Bay is one of the gems of the Emerald Necklace and a treasure of Boston. It is also the latest expedition in our Urban Safari series. Frederick Law [...]

Urban Safari: Heron Hunting

May 5, 2014 // 0 Comments

Urban safaris are something we started doing when we joined the Franklin Park Zoo a few years ago. Since then, we have had many “adventures,” some of them in [...]

Sugru Update

May 1, 2014 // 0 Comments

Fixing things is one of the many uses for the magical material that is Sugru; making things better or more useful are the others. We were clued into the stuff a few years [...]

Boxster Project: Hardtop Fix

April 28, 2014 // 0 Comments

We usually wait until May to take off the hardtop and the snow tires. However, when the temperature hit 70º a few weeks ago, we decided it was pretty safe to get the car [...]

New York International Auto Show 2014 : CarUX

April 24, 2014 // 0 Comments

Yes, we go to the New York International Auto Show (NYIAS) to sample the free food and booze, but we also go with a theme in mind. This year we were particularly interested [...]

New York International Auto Show 2014

April 22, 2014 // 0 Comments

We were in New York last week for the International Auto Show. For those who don’t know, the NYIAS has been going on since 1900! For more than a hundred year, folks [...]

Lighting The Lanterns

April 21, 2014 // 0 Comments

Old North Church. One of the first houses of worship in Boston. Built in the North End when the North End was the center of the town; when it was downtown, as it were. This [...]
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