This is just so wrong... and yet it's both awesome and "awesome"...
Namely,
this site is selling stuffed toys of subatomic particles. I was tempted to buy some, but the price is a bit too steep. Apparently, the weight of the stuffed toys is supposed to have some correspondence (via 'light' versus 'heavy') with their actual weights. I'm amused.
And when you complete your subatomic particle collection, don't forget to buy some stuffies of
internal organs and
microbes. (I've seen the microcrobes in a couple of places---first at DragonCon and then at J/L's place.)
There are also a bunch of
crocheted Lorenz manifolds out there. (My link is to a page of the Bristol mathematicians who made the first one. Their page links to a few others.) I'd be up for buying or making something like a stuffed network. Does anybody want to help make a stuffed Watts-Strogatz graph? (I was going to suggest a random graph, but that would take more nodes to be able to appreciate.) One could get a bunch of stuffed spheres and connect them with stuffed rods.
(Tip of the cap to Jonathan Adams for posting the link to the subatomic particle zoo.)
