Archive for June, 2008

If you’re like me, you love looking at Top 10 lists of any kind. I think it’s always interesting to read about what other people find interesting or to analyze subjects and topics by studying what people are buying. Like many people in the retail world say, customers vote with their pocket book (or wallet, […]

“Well done is better than well said.” I came across this quote recently and I’m not sure why it had a certain resonance with me. Maybe it’s just such a basic truth that we all would do well to remember it from time to time. I suppose there are more common and current ways to […]

I love these kits where you chip away at a rock-like substrate to unearth a dinosaur fossil. I did the GeoSafari X-cavations a few months ago and most recently did one of the Thames & Kosmos kits with my five year old son. While the GeoSafari kit is much bigger (it was a T-rex fossil), […]

This is one of the best educational toys I’ve reviewed in a while. This is another great one from Tedco Toys’ line of Ein-O Smart Boxes. The Force Science kit is all about Newtonian mechanics. With this kit, kids actually get to build their own Newton’s cradle. You know the toy I’m talking about - […]