What Was Your Favorite Childhood Toy? Vote Today!
What was your favorite toy from childhood? The Indianapolis Children’s Museum wants to know. Vote today!
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Hurry! It’s the Book That Can’t Wait!
This book’s ink will evaporate two months after it’s opened. Would that inspire you to get around to reading it?
Continue ReadingA Race With Prosthetics at the London Olympics
Once again Oscar Pistorius, a double amputee, challenges able bodied runners, this time in the Olympics.
Continue ReadingThe Blue Ribbon Bacon Festival – a Yummy Way to Spend a Weekend.
For those of us who love bacon, there is hardly a better way to spend a weekend than attending a bacon festival.
Continue ReadingThe Carousel of Happiness Spins with History.
One man’s dream from the trenches of Vietnam has been realized and now visitors can take a ride on a historic carousel that has lived three different lifetimes.
Continue ReadingThe Father-Son Team of Lego Master Builders
Meet the father and son who hold two of the seven Lego Master Builder spots in the United States. The Lego apple doesn’t fall far from the tree.
Continue ReadingDads of Disabled Kids – The True Myth Busters
Remembering the dads who carry a unique load on Father’s Day this year.
Continue ReadingLego + M.C. Escher = An Amazing Challenge
Need a new challenge for your summertime Lego builds? Look no further than M.C. Escher.
Continue ReadingThe Lego Lemonade Stand… in Progress.
It’s not done yet! Head over to downtown Philly and snap together some Lego bricks to help fight childhood cancer.
Continue ReadingA Lego Lemonade Stand – Helping Pediatric Cancer Research
Come help bulid a full sized lemonade stand out of Lego bricks, all to help raise money for childhood cancer research.
Continue ReadingAre Brick and Mortar Bookstores Worth the Higher Price?
The reality of life is that I could only afford to buy half the books I want to, if I were to only buy from brick and mortar stores. As one GeekMom writer put it, “While I love being in a bookstore, I’m not willing to pay premium prices to make sure I keep getting to do it.”
Continue ReadingLego’s BuildTogether.com — a Parent’s New Friend
Just have a few minutes to spend with your kid? Lego’s new website can help with building suggestions for even the smallest time period.
Continue ReadingNext Stop, the Moving Memoir of an Autistic Adult
If only all the memoirs I find could be as well written as Next Stop by Glen Finland. This is the first book I’ve ever read that dealt with what happens when an autistic child grows up, and tries to enter the world of grownups. What happens when he desires the things adults get to do, but doesn’t necessarily have the ability to strike out on his own?
Continue ReadingWorld’s Tallest Lego Tower Built to Celebrate a Lego Birthday
Four thousand children in South Korea were picked to help build the tallest Lego tower in history, using a half a million Lego bricks.
Continue ReadingLego Kidsfest: Definitely Worth the Price of Admission
You might be inclined to believe Lego KidsFests is just going to be another marketing ploy by this company that seems to keep finding ways to suck those dollar bills out of your wallet, but let me tell you why you, and your building child, will experience so much more than a cruise through the company store.
Continue ReadingStar Wars Week: Feline Fun – a “CAT-AT” Kitty Sanctuary
If you have a little bit of time on your hands, a bored cat, and a love for Star Wars, maybe you should dive into a project like this, which was created in some guy’s living room as a gag gift for his buddy. If his buddy is a fan, I think this qualifies as […]
Continue ReadingFlying High in Colorado on 4/20
For many people across the United States the date April 20th, doesn’t mean anything special. Unless you have a friend or family member celebrating a birthday, it’s just another date to cross off the calendar. Not so if you live in Colorado. From the early 1970s the term 4/20 has referred to marijuana and its […]
Continue ReadingA New Lego Master Model Builder – And He’s Only 23!
There are very few Lego Master Model Builders in the world and only a handful of them are located in the United States. When one of the American builders recently retired there was an intense competition to fill his dream job slot. After submitting a clever video, then competing in a hard core three round […]
Continue ReadingHiding in Plain Sight – New Species of Frog Discovered in NYC
It took the sharp ears of a Rutgers grad student to lead to the discovery of a previously undocumented frog species. Jeremy Feinberg was intrigued by the unique mating call of a frog, as he walked through a Staten Island park. Further investigation revealed a brand new type of leopard frog. It’s a pretty incredible […]
Continue ReadingExcuse Me as I Go Dock My Phone on My Leg…
Well, I’m not exactly the one who can dock her phone on her prosthetic leg, but this week I found this link, to an article about a guy who is giving me grand ideas. He worked with the big dogs at Nokia, and his prosthetist, and ended up with an artificial arm that charges his […]
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