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Our third MEL Science box arrived back in August, when we were on vacation. We have already tried two experiments from the box, both perhaps more suitable for winter. Instant … Continue reading MEL Chemistry Box number 3: Artificial Snow and growing crystals on a Xmas tree
Simon and Neva work on the math problem called ‘The Dollar Game’ late in the evening before the day school officially starts in Belgium and continue as soon as they … Continue reading Happy not back to school
Simon learned about this experiment from Physics Girl and tried several variations with a number of plastic plates and frisbees. He even got kicked out of a fashionable pool in … Continue reading Physics Experiments: Vortices
Although vacation is a vague notion in our family, where days are devoted to doing favourite things 365 days a year. For Simon, that means that his days are filled … Continue reading Looking back at the vacation
– Simon, Mom and Dad arranged it quite nicely, to have your birthdat and our wedding anniversary on two consecutive days! – No, it was pure coincidence! – But what … Continue reading Simon turned 9!
Here Simon placed the primary colors in the next to the secondary ones (that he mixed using only the three primary colors) so that the colors that are absolute opposites … Continue reading Color Opposites
If you put a cereal flake in a bowl of water you can steer it with a strong magnet. The magnets above aren’t strong enough, but the really powerful ones … Continue reading How much iron is there in your favorite cereal?
Above: “Mom, look, this is what we breathe in and this is what we breathe out!” Looking for a better organic chemistry set now, with plenty of carbon and hydrogen … Continue reading Some basic molecules
A couple more images from our trip to Friesland. Simon’s binary calculator: Doing math at a restaurant where we were celebrating his friend’s birthday:
Simon loved the optical illusions scattered around the town.
We were also lucky to have friends with a telescope over at Simon’s grandma’s summer house in Friesland last weekend and saw the Moon a little closer than as shown … Continue reading Observing the Red Moon during the eclipse last Friday night
Jaume Plensa, Love. Simon said it was a 2.5 dimensional sculpture. And such a shame we had no laser pen, to see the beam in the steam.
Geeks out of the box 