Christmas gift round up - December 03, 2007
Unsure what gifts to buy the scientist in your life? Check out the Great Beyond’s Great Gifts.
NB: These are pulled from a random trawl of the internet - they're not endorsements and Nature can't vouch for the products.
If you’ve seen anything that should be included here let me know, we’ll update right through to Christmas Eve.
For the biologist in your life
A toy giant microbe (pic left)! Probably best to avoid giving them HIV though...
From $7.95 at GiantMicrobes.com
Leucochloridium parasites invade snails’ eyes for a living. What better creature could adorn your coffee mug?
$14.99 from Café Press.
Toy guts and heart themed t-shirts? Perfect.
From $16 at I Heart Guts.
For the chemist in your life
A serotonin necklace (pic left), or maybe some cufflinks?
Around $80 from Made With Molecules.
Cleanliness is next to geekyness if you’ve got a periodic table shower curtain
$29.99 from Think Geek.
For the physicist in your life
No researcher’s life is complete without an Albert Einstein Action Figure (pic left).
$7.99 from Think Geek.
For the science teacher / outreach person in your life
Look swish during demos in this ‘Stand Back – I’m Going to Try Science’ shirt (pic top).
From $17 at XKCD.
Set children on the path to that Nobel prize by entertaining them with a scientists finger puppet set - Marie Curie, Einstein, Newton, and Darwin.
$19.95 from the Unemployed Philosophers Guild
All images are courtesy of the sites concerned.
