If you haven’t played with one of these in a while, you may have forgotten just how cool this toy is. As far as educational toys go, there really are a lot of scientific principles at work here. Angular momentum, centripetal force, precession, and quite a few more. Here’s a crafty little youtube video showing […]

Many of us have heard about the “Mitochondrial Eve,” our earliest ancestor who lived in Africa about 200,000 years ago. A Stanford University study, reported on today at CNN, has concluded that our species became precariously close to extinction about 60,000 years ago. Very interesting. Considering that we have almost 7,000,000,000 people on Earth now, […]

I read an article recently that addressed the question, “Is nuclear power going to make a comeback in the 21st century, and if so, will it make any real impact on global warming?” Of course these questions bring forth many other questions but I couldn’t help but take away my own answer of “not likely.” […]

The toy industry is a multi-billion dollar market and consumers often find themselves bombarded with the latest and greatest toys from the major players in the industry. While I have never had anything against toy cars or dolls, and in fact my children have plenty of both, I am always on the quest to provide […]

In the interest of full disclosure, the author of this article is the owner of Atomic Elephant Toy, a store offering science kits and educational toys for children of all ages. — As parents, how many of us have been disappointed shortly after the purchase of a toy for our child that he or […]

In the interest of disclosure, the author of this article is the owner of Atomic Elephant Science & Toy Co., a unique store offering science kits and educational toys for children of all ages. — To many young children, the lure for collecting and observing insects is as natural to them as anything they […]