Nov 9

I heard about the famous UFO crash site near Corona New Mexico in 1974.  Out of curiosity, I bought a small plastic bag of red coloured soil sample from the site.  When I first received the Roswell Soil Sample, I thought the Certificate of Authenticity card from Images SI Inc is a certificate is a scam.  I was regret for my impulsive buying for the bag of dirt, so I threw it to the corn farm behind my house.  Days have passed and nothing happened.  I thought I was such a stupid believing the crashed alien story.  However, things become different two years later.

I remembered it was a sunny day, and I was in the corn farm.  I really needed to find a toilet, but I figured I cannot hold back my poo.  As the urge to release the poo was really strong, I did my business at the corn farm.  Minutes later, I heard some noise coming from the soil I just shit on.  I looked down, and I saw the soil wrote some words…. “You have been corn-ed!”

Dec 10

Uterus With Fetus Model Set is a very weird set of pregnancy model available in Amazon.  The model is for training purpose.  The educational model consists of five fetus models at their 6 weeks, 8 weeks, 15 weeks, 20 weeks, and 40 weeks.  The model is not cheap either, it is selling for $479.95.

Mar 27

It is not difficult to trigger interest of your children or students for science.  Van de Graaff generator is a cool way to make them interested.  The Van de Graaff generator is invented by American physicist Robert J. Van de Graff in 1929.  It is an electrostatic generator that accumulate voltages that make hairs stand on end due to attraction and repulsion of positive and negative ions.  The Hand Crank Van de Graaff Generator can reach 200kV and produces spark up to 3.2 incehs long.  The generator measures 28″ high and is easy to set up.

Mar 20

Japan’s nuclear safety agency raised the crisis level at Fukushima nuclear power station to 5 on a scale of 1 to 7.  The rating is equivalent to Three Mile Island accident (1979).  Chernobyl accident was rated 7 which was the highest nuclear power station crisis level in history.  The release of radioactivity will not only impact on Japanese only, but perhaps the whole world via food, population movement,wind, etc.

For people who are vulnerable to such radioactivity leakage, it is important to have a radiation detector if your government do not update on radiation level (or you simply do not trust your government).  The Radiation Alert IINSPECTORXTREME EXP Microprocessor-Based Ionizing Radiation Detector is able to take samples at interval period of 1 to 10 minutes.  It is small and portable, and highly sensitive to alpha, beta, gamma, and x-rays.  It may be pricey ($504) but it is worth to buy if the microprocessor-based ionizing radiation detector can protect you, your family and your future offsprings.

Mar 13
Uranium Ore
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Do you know that you can actually buy uranium ore on Amazon.com?  Uranium ore is one of the common elements in the Earth’s crust.  It is a weakly radioactive chemical element.  The can of Uranium Ore can be a great radioactive ore sample for educational and scientific purposes.  It is also useful for testing Geiger-Müller counters.

Feb 20

Are you a scientist or science student who is looking for a fancy toy?  Video Screen Microscope saves you from torturing your eyes as an LCD screen is used to replace the standard eyepiece.  The LCD screen will display the subject under microscope up to 1600x magnification (320 x 240 resolution).  You can also capture still images or videos of the objects with the built-in 5 MP digital camera and a built-in 128MB memory for future reference.  You can also record more videos and take more still photos by using additional SD card slot.  All photos and videos can be transferred to your computer via a USB cable which is included with the purchase.  The price for the Video Screen Microscope is $299.95.