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Be gifted! Wit and whimsy from science to inspire your seasonal giving
Astronomical bowls
£17.95, presentindicative.com Images of the sun, moon and Earth fill these large, shallow bowls. They’re meant to be tableware, but they’re so pretty, we just couldn’t bring ourselves to put them to the test
The Artist Within T-shirt £25, shop.tate.org.uk
Inspired by the Hunterian Museum’s collections of body parts, bones and organs, this T-shirt lets us consider our deepest natures
Anatomical chocolates from $8.85, visualanatomy.com Stuff yourself with chocolate body parts: collections include Great Expectations (womb, sperm and heart). From the US, so hurry!
Women in science earrings
£16, presentindicative.com Give an ear to women in science, and you too can sport the piercing intelligence of Dorothy Hodgkin (pictured), Barbara McClintock or Marie Curie
Astronaut duvet set
£55, sciencemuseumshop.co.uk Prepare your young spacefarer for a soft landing. The NASA suit pictured on this duvet is from the Space Expo museum in the Netherlands
50 | NewScientist | 22 November 2014
For more books and arts coverage, visit newscientist.com/culturelab
Infectious neckties
Science letter set
£24.30/$35, bioquote.com; iawareables.com It’s a catching idea: buy a tie sporting viruses like herpes or hepatitis C and cash goes to related research, education or support
£8, super-collider.com
Give your correspondence gravitas with these envelopes and notecards, handmade from 1960s science journals
Happiness watch £49.99, mytikker.com
Answer some health questions, and this watch will compute your life expectancy to the last second – and start counting down. It acts as a timely reminder to seize the day
Scientific fine-art print From £17.50, prints. royalsociety.org
The Royal Society – on your wall. Choose from more than 2500 beautiful portraits, observations and illustrations, framed or unframed, on paper or canvas
Dino Pet
$59.95, biopop.com/products/ dino-pet Powered by bioluminescent plankton, Dino Pet gives a light show at night when you shake it. All it needs is indirect sunlight. From the US, so hurry!
Anki DRIVE starter kit £149.95, anki.com
One of Time magazine’s 25 Best Inventions of 2013. Use your phone or tablet to race and battle toy cars. Watch your back, though: these vehicles come with minds of their own
Mouse taxidermy kit £29.99, firebox.com
Join the taxidermy bandwagon. This expertmade kit contains everything a beginner needs – except for the mouse. But don’t worry, even top stuffers care about animal welfare so there’s a list of ethical sources of rodents
22 November 2014 | NewScientist | 51
Be gifted! Wit and whimsy from science to inspire your seasonal giving
Astronomical bowls
£17.95, presentindicative.com Images of the sun, moon and Earth fill these large, shallow bowls. They’re meant to be tableware, but they’re so pretty, we just couldn’t bring ourselves to put them to the test
The Artist Within T-shirt £25, shop.tate.org.uk
Inspired by the Hunterian Museum’s collections of body parts, bones and organs, this T-shirt lets us consider our deepest natures
Anatomical chocolates from $8.85, visualanatomy.com Stuff yourself with chocolate body parts: collections include Great Expectations (womb, sperm and heart). From the US, so hurry!
Women in science earrings
£16, presentindicative.com Give an ear to women in science, and you too can sport the piercing intelligence of Dorothy Hodgkin (pictured), Barbara McClintock or Marie Curie
Astronaut duvet set
£55, sciencemuseumshop.co.uk Prepare your young spacefarer for a soft landing. The NASA suit pictured on this duvet is from the Space Expo museum in the Netherlands
50 | NewScientist | 22 November 2014
For more books and arts coverage, visit newscientist.com/culturelab
Infectious neckties
Science letter set
£24.30/$35, bioquote.com; iawareables.com It’s a catching idea: buy a tie sporting viruses like herpes or hepatitis C and cash goes to related research, education or support
£8, super-collider.com
Give your correspondence gravitas with these envelopes and notecards, handmade from 1960s science journals
Happiness watch £49.99, mytikker.com
Answer some health questions, and this watch will compute your life expectancy to the last second – and start counting down. It acts as a timely reminder to seize the day
Scientific fine-art print From £17.50, prints. royalsociety.org
The Royal Society – on your wall. Choose from more than 2500 beautiful portraits, observations and illustrations, framed or unframed, on paper or canvas
Dino Pet
$59.95, biopop.com/products/ dino-pet Powered by bioluminescent plankton, Dino Pet gives a light show at night when you shake it. All it needs is indirect sunlight. From the US, so hurry!
Anki DRIVE starter kit £149.95, anki.com
One of Time magazine’s 25 Best Inventions of 2013. Use your phone or tablet to race and battle toy cars. Watch your back, though: these vehicles come with minds of their own
Mouse taxidermy kit £29.99, firebox.com
Join the taxidermy bandwagon. This expertmade kit contains everything a beginner needs – except for the mouse. But don’t worry, even top stuffers care about animal welfare so there’s a list of ethical sources of rodents
22 November 2014 | NewScientist | 51