[$199.99, Perpetual Kid]
For those of you with the money (please adopt me?), you can always impress your burgeoning scientist with a big-ticket item during the holidays. Such as this Homestar Optical Star Projection System, which projects a rotating field of 10,000 stars — with random streaking meteors — onto your ceiling or wall . What else could you possibly waste a huge chunk of your income on?
[$299, Discovery Store]
I don't know much about telescopes, but this Meade® ETX-80BB Backpack Observatory Telescope looks pretty nifty! Plus I trust the Discovery Store.
[$121.95, Discover This]
This family-friendly 3-in-1 digital nature camera has time-lapse, night vision, and motion sensor features.
[$450, National Geographic]
The Starship Earth Globe is pretty (and pretty expensive). What's in it for you? A superb learning/teaching tool, the Starship Earth II is a
three-dimensional star atlas, displaying updated and
improved data from Sky Catalogue 2000.0, all 88
constellations, and more than 1,100 naked-eye stars, plus many prominent
deep-sky objects against a precision grid of Right Ascension and
Declination lines. Color me impressed.
[Bruce Riley]
Bruce Riley's paintings are influenced by the natural sciences and physics. Pieces have names such as "Big Bang," "Biomorph," and "Sunshine Unit."
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