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magnets?

Here’s a simple magnetic experiment that I often demonstrate when littlelegion has friends over:

Take a magnet, like a refrigerator magnet.
attach it to something like a bent coat wire coathanger.
Make the shape like a seven (7), with the magnet at the top of the seven.
Bend the wire at the base to make a sort of loop and hammer the wire structure into a wooden board.

You should now have a simple scaffold with a magnet fixed on top.

Now just take a piece of string and a paper clip.
Staple the string to the board beneath the magnet and leave enough string to keep about 1/4 of an inch space between the magnet and the paper clip.

Raise the paper clip near the magnet and let it go.
It will stay suspended in mid air to the amazement of all the kids there!

…Next up, fun with spiders.

rob – You could be asked to do it & then turn down the offer.

“it’s so hard to focus on the subway, surrounded like that with the detritus of mankind”

Yeah but a lot of them are really hot eye candy…for both you and me.

yeah dibs – not baller at all

do fidi “ballers” still trek up to tribeca for lunch/dinner? i’ve always wondered how circa 90s popular places like Nobu, Tribeca Grill etc still stay in business.

m4l, I can’t help it, but all your posts are doing is making me laugh today. I’ll gladly get in another fist fight with you next time I see you if you’d like. No doubt I’ll kick your ass again.