Things fall all the time. It’s the gravity thing. But every once in a while something tumbles and someone notices and the world is never the same. Take Newton’s apple. And then again in 1943 when mechanical engineer Richard James noticed a torsion spring fall off a shelf and come to life as it moved […]

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I don’t know exactly how long I’ve loved Slinkys. I never truly appreciated them as a child, but when I reached my second childhood, I saw the light…shimmering off of its coils…
A Slinky is not just a toy, its a physics project, stress-reliever, radio antenna, weapon…it can be anything that you […]

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