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Stuff I want from the Museum of Science
by Mary - September 1, 2006 - 7:26 AM

I’m not suggesting that anyone actually break into Boston’s Museum of Science to obtain these things for me — you’d just get tracked down and I’d have to give them back — but nonetheless, I have a birthday coming up, and if someone wanted to send me replicas of these wonderful gewgaws I spotted last weekend, I wouldn’t send them back:

89475320_9852b52d43_o.jpgKnitted Brain, by Karen Norberg. Not only is it cuddly, it’s anatomically correct!

The Tinkertoy Computer. Built by, who else, a group of MIT students, it “plays a mean game of tic-tac-toe” and is made almost entirely of the classic wooden toys.

“Sequencia” by Susan Alexjander and “DNA Suite” by David Deamer. Sadly unavailable on iTunes, these musical compositions are based on the make-up of human genes.

A Naboo starfighter. Why it’s in the Museum of Science, I have no idea, but they’ve got one hanging from the ceiling.

And for the law-abiding folks out there, something from the gift shop: a stuffed animal bacterium in the shape of necrotizing fascitis, or flesh-eating disease — which left me a little disconcerted, considering that the gift shop is next to the cafeteria. Get yours here.
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Comments (7)

  1. Those are just too cute.

    posted by paperback writer on 9-1-2006 at 8:18 am

  2. I love GiantMicrobes! I gave my wife the Ebola virus last year for Christmas. People can’t figure out why Black Death hangs over my desk at work - I find it sets the tone nicely.

    I think the naboo fighter was a leftover from the Star Wars exhibit featured at the museum last fall.

    posted by Bill T. on 9-1-2006 at 8:19 am

  3. The Naboo fighter is definitely leftover from the Starwars Exhibit…I’m just curious as to why they left it up??

    The stuffed animal bacterium are cute…strange but cute.

    posted by AdriftAtSea on 9-1-2006 at 8:49 am

  4. Finally, a way to get ebola without all that nasty internal melting. Can’t wait for the STD set to come out!

    posted by David C. Casey on 9-1-2006 at 1:58 pm

  5. The giant microbes are awesome. I’d love to get the bedbug one for my husband, who got introduced to them (along with the rest of his band) in a cheap New Jersey motel. He’s still skeeved out about it.

    posted by Kimberly on 9-1-2006 at 3:54 pm

  6. There are STD variations available already. I gave my boyfriend syphilis for our anniversary (in other circumstances I doubt those words would make me smile as they now do) and, I believe, gonorrhea is also available. They can be found to order at http://www.giantmicrobes.com/

    posted by Cheryl on 9-1-2006 at 8:18 pm

  7. I’m also a giant microbe fan. I bought my boyfriend the flesh eating desease, and got myself the common cold (I seem to have it constantly any way…). I liked to tease my old roommates by throwing the cold at them.

    posted by moonablaze on 9-1-2006 at 8:23 pm

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