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Saturday, August 03, 2013

<p nodeindex="72" style="text-align: -webkit-auto; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; "><p nodeindex="72" style="text-align: -webkit-auto; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; "><font face="Times" size="3"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><b><u>The smartphone boom has been a boon for a pioneer in semiconductors.</u></b></span></font></p><p nodeindex="73" style="text-align: -webkit-auto; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; "><font face="Times" size="3"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">WHEN he founded Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) in 1987, Morris Chang recalls, "Nobody thought we were going anywhere." Back then the rule was that semiconductor companies both designed and made chips. TSMC was the first pure "foundry", making chips for designers with no factories, or "fabs", of their own. The doubts of others suited TSMC nicely. Mr Chang, at 82 still chairman and in his second stint as chief executive, says that meant it suffered no competition in its first eight years.</span></font></p><p nodeindex="74" style="text-align: -webkit-auto; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; "><font face="Times" size="3"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">These days the idea is more popular. Last year foundries made about half of all logic chips (the ones that carry out computations, as opposed to memory chips, a more commoditised market). United Microelectronics Corporation, a slightly older Taiwanese company, turned itself into a pure-play foundry in 1995. GlobalFoundries, with factories in America, Germany and Singapore, was set up in 2009.</span></font></p><p nodeindex="75" style="text-align: -webkit-auto; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; "><font face="Times" size="3"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Yet the pioneer still dominates. This year, predicts Samuel Wang of Gartner, a research firm, TSMC's revenues will exceed those of all other foundries combined. He reckons it has 90% of the world market for advanced 28-nanometre chips, which are essential to smartphones and tablets. TSMC's sales in the second quarter, reported on July 18th, were NT$156 billion ($5.2 billion), 21% more than a year before. Its net income rose by 24%, to NT$52 billion. That said, growth should slow in the second half of the year, Mr Chang told analysts, because smartphone-makers have been building up their inventories of chips ahead of new-product launches and because sales of PCs and some smartphones have been weaker than expected. Sales could even shrink in the fourth quarter.</span></font></p><p nodeindex="76" style="text-align: -webkit-auto; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; "><font face="Times" size="3"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">TSMC has thrived on a mixture of serendipity and anticipation. "The market moved in the direction in which we were heading," says Mr Chang. The boom in mobile computing has meant a bonanza for several long-standing customers, which range from Qualcomm, an American firm that dominates the market for smartphones' application processors, to MediaTek, a Taiwanese neighbour that has burst onto the scene more recently. Sales to Chinese designers such as Allwinner, Rockchip and Spreadtrum, whose chips power inexpensive Android tablets and phones, have doubled in the past year; these all license low-energy chip technology from ARM, a British firm that has been a partner of TSMC's since 2004.</span></font></p><p nodeindex="77" style="text-align: -webkit-auto; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; "><font face="Times" size="3"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The "grand alliance" of TSMC and the chip designers, as Mr Chang has called it, has done far better from the shift to mobile devices than Intel, the world's biggest chipmaker. Intel both designs and makes chips (in industry argot, it is an integrated device manufacturer, or IDM). Its processor chips are the brains of most personal computers, but demand for these has been falling. Although Intel's newest processors are much less thirsty and the firm is determined to break into the mobile market, it has so far struggled. Its second-quarter revenues fell by 5% and its net income by 29%.</span></font></p><p nodeindex="78" style="text-align: -webkit-auto; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; "><font face="Times" size="3"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">A combination of fabless designers and a pure foundry works well, Mr Chang explains, because the designers "don't have to worry about the capital-intensive part of the business any more": the foundry provides the scale. At the same time, fabless companies, of which he reckons there are about 50 with annual revenues of at least $100m, compete with one another and with IDMs. "This diverse group has in total produced more innovation than any single IDM…Just look at the mobile products," he says.</span></font></p><p nodeindex="79" style="text-align: -webkit-auto; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; "><font face="Times" size="3"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The battle lines between the alliance and its rivals continue to shift. Intel has entered the foundry business—and recently snaffled a contract with Altera, an American designer that has been a customer of TSMC's for 20 years. "I really regret that very much," Mr Chang says. "I had an investigation into why that happened."</span></font></p><p nodeindex="80" style="text-align: -webkit-auto; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; "><font face="Times" size="3"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">On another front, TSMC is fighting Samsung. The South Korean company makes processors not only for itself but also for Apple, even though the two are deadly rivals in smartphones and tablets. In addition it is the world's biggest maker of memory chips. Recently the Wall Street Journal reported that TSMC, after years of effort, had won a contract to make chips for iPhones and iPads—a victory that will have stung Samsung. (The Taiwanese company has not commented.) Mr Chang says that he takes neither Intel nor Samsung lightly, but insists: "We have one big advantage: we are a pure foundry. We do not compete with our customers." No matter how hard Intel and Samsung try, he says, they will not enjoy the same trust.</span></font></p><p nodeindex="81" style="text-align: -webkit-auto; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; "><font face="Times" size="3"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The big question hanging over TSMC is whether it can find a worthy successor to its octogenarian boss. It has had one false start already: he stood down as chief executive in 2005, but took the helm again in 2009. No handover is planned yet, but last year three men were appointed "co-chief operating officers". Probably at least two of these, or maybe all three, will end up as joint chief executives. A ménage à trois could prove farcical. But perhaps TSMC's board thinks its founder is too good an act for one man to follow.</span></font></p><p nodeindex="82" style="text-align: -webkit-auto; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; "><font face="Times" size="3"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">©The Economist Newspaper Limited 2013</span></font></p></p><p nodeindex="73" style="text-align: -webkit-auto; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; "><font face="Times" size="3"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">WHEN he founded Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) in 1987, Morris Chang recalls, "Nobody thought we were going anywhere." Back then the rule was that semiconductor companies both designed and made chips. TSMC was the first pure "foundry", making chips for designers with no factories, or "fabs", of their own. The doubts of others suited TSMC nicely. Mr Chang, at 82 still chairman and in his second stint as chief executive, says that meant it suffered no competition in its first eight years.</span></font></p><p nodeindex="74" style="text-align: -webkit-auto; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; "><font face="Times" size="3"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">These days the idea is more popular. Last year foundries made about half of all logic chips (the ones that carry out computations, as opposed to memory chips, a more commoditised market). United Microelectronics Corporation, a slightly older Taiwanese company, turned itself into a pure-play foundry in 1995. GlobalFoundries, with factories in America, Germany and Singapore, was set up in 2009.</span></font></p><p nodeindex="75" style="text-align: -webkit-auto; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; "><font face="Times" size="3"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Yet the pioneer still dominates. This year, predicts Samuel Wang of Gartner, a research firm, TSMC's revenues will exceed those of all other foundries combined. He reckons it has 90% of the world market for advanced 28-nanometre chips, which are essential to smartphones and tablets. TSMC's sales in the second quarter, reported on July 18th, were NT$156 billion ($5.2 billion), 21% more than a year before. Its net income rose by 24%, to NT$52 billion. That said, growth should slow in the second half of the year, Mr Chang told analysts, because smartphone-makers have been building up their inventories of chips ahead of new-product launches and because sales of PCs and some smartphones have been weaker than expected. Sales could even shrink in the fourth quarter.</span></font></p><p nodeindex="76" style="text-align: -webkit-auto; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; "><font face="Times" size="3"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">TSMC has thrived on a mixture of serendipity and anticipation. "The market moved in the direction in which we were heading," says Mr Chang. The boom in mobile computing has meant a bonanza for several long-standing customers, which range from Qualcomm, an American firm that dominates the market for smartphones' application processors, to MediaTek, a Taiwanese neighbour that has burst onto the scene more recently. Sales to Chinese designers such as Allwinner, Rockchip and Spreadtrum, whose chips power inexpensive Android tablets and phones, have doubled in the past year; these all license low-energy chip technology from ARM, a British firm that has been a partner of TSMC's since 2004.</span></font></p><p nodeindex="77" style="text-align: -webkit-auto; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; "><font face="Times" size="3"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The "grand alliance" of TSMC and the chip designers, as Mr Chang has called it, has done far better from the shift to mobile devices than Intel, the world's biggest chipmaker. Intel both designs and makes chips (in industry argot, it is an integrated device manufacturer, or IDM). Its processor chips are the brains of most personal computers, but demand for these has been falling. Although Intel's newest processors are much less thirsty and the firm is determined to break into the mobile market, it has so far struggled. Its second-quarter revenues fell by 5% and its net income by 29%.</span></font></p><p nodeindex="78" style="text-align: -webkit-auto; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; "><font face="Times" size="3"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">A combination of fabless designers and a pure foundry works well, Mr Chang explains, because the designers "don't have to worry about the capital-intensive part of the business any more": the foundry provides the scale. At the same time, fabless companies, of which he reckons there are about 50 with annual revenues of at least $100m, compete with one another and with IDMs. "This diverse group has in total produced more innovation than any single IDM…Just look at the mobile products," he says.</span></font></p><p nodeindex="79" style="text-align: -webkit-auto; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; "><font face="Times" size="3"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The battle lines between the alliance and its rivals continue to shift. Intel has entered the foundry business—and recently snaffled a contract with Altera, an American designer that has been a customer of TSMC's for 20 years. "I really regret that very much," Mr Chang says. "I had an investigation into why that happened."</span></font></p><p nodeindex="80" style="text-align: -webkit-auto; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; "><font face="Times" size="3"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">On another front, TSMC is fighting Samsung. The South Korean company makes processors not only for itself but also for Apple, even though the two are deadly rivals in smartphones and tablets. In addition it is the world's biggest maker of memory chips. Recently the Wall Street Journal reported that TSMC, after years of effort, had won a contract to make chips for iPhones and iPads—a victory that will have stung Samsung. (The Taiwanese company has not commented.) Mr Chang says that he takes neither Intel nor Samsung lightly, but insists: "We have one big advantage: we are a pure foundry. We do not compete with our customers." No matter how hard Intel and Samsung try, he says, they will not enjoy the same trust.</span></font></p><p nodeindex="81" style="text-align: -webkit-auto; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; "><font face="Times" size="3"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The big question hanging over TSMC is whether it can find a worthy successor to its octogenarian boss. It has had one false start already: he stood down as chief executive in 2005, but took the helm again in 2009. No handover is planned yet, but last year three men were appointed "co-chief operating officers". Probably at least two of these, or maybe all three, will end up as joint chief executives. A ménage à trois could prove farcical. But perhaps TSMC's board thinks its founder is too good an act for one man to follow.</span></font></p><p nodeindex="82" style="text-align: -webkit-auto; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; "><font face="Times" size="3"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">©The Economist Newspaper Limited 2013</span></font></p>

Thursday, November 29, 2012

The Connected Company - Dave Gray

Here’s an excerpt from a related blog post: “I’ve noticed some troubling trends lately in the business world. A recent analysis of S&P 500 companies shows that when you triple the number of employees in an organization, its productivity drops by half. The average life expectancy for a U.S. firm today is just 15 years, down from 75 years on the heels of the Great Depression. What’s more, only 40 percent of companies survive more than a decade. I believe all of this is happening because businesses are growing increasingly complex and are collapsing under the weight of that complexity. If we are to avoid such failures in the future, we need to understand the nature of large, complex systems and let go of traditional notions of how companies function. Historically, we have thought of businesses as machines and designed them with similar characteristics. We tend to expect them to perform a certain function, so we design and build them to perform that function for their entire lives. Either that, or we divide up tasks into machine-like parts. We separate departments and tasks from one another (finance, sales, operations, etc.), and we design work-flows that process inputs into outputs (raw materials into products, prospects into customers, complaints into resolutions, etc.). The problem with this thinking is that the nature of a machine is to maintain consistency, while the nature of a company is to grow. Customers want new products and services. Different systems are needed. And companies are made of people, not levers and gears. Some executives may wish they could put their business strategy into a machine, push a button, and wait for results. But it doesn’t work that way. If you want results, you have to execute your strategy through people. So, what happens if we stop thinking of the modern company as a machine and start thinking of it as a complex, growing, and connected system? What if we manage our companies as we do our cities? Cities are more productive than corporations. A study by the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia shows that when the working population in a given geographical area doubles, its productivity (the rate of invention) goes up by 20 percent.” In the video above, Dave talks more about how companies could evolve in our new social age. He’s such a great, visual presenter; I would rate this a “MUST WATCH”. See what you think.

Reinventing the technology of human accomplished.

Gary Hamel: Reinventing the Technology of Human Accomplishment

Sunday, October 28, 2012

在家煮出香濃豆漿,製作好吃豆花

做法:先把不完整或不飽滿的豆子去除再洗過之後泡水,水要蓋過豆子,夏天約泡4小時,冬天約泡6小時,先倒入適量的豆子到果汁機中,再準備一瓶礦泉水倒入約一半的礦泉水後­開始攪碎,絞碎到無顆粒狀,再準備鍋子上面蓋上紗網,把絞碎後的生豆漿倒入後使勁扭乾,再準備另一個鍋子,把另一半礦泉水加入煮開後另加入處理完後的豆漿,一邊加一邊攪拌­直到煮滾,這樣處理就不會讓豆漿煮到溢出來,煮滾後讓豆漿溫度降約80~85度即可,再來準備桶鍋倒入市售豆花粉、水,一定要攪拌均勻後,馬上把煮完後的豆漿立即沖入,之­後不要動鍋子靜置,大約等十分鐘後就會凝結,凝結之後把泡沫撈起,這樣就完成水水嫩嫩的豆花

超淨養生豆漿機

Friday, October 19, 2012

Explore a Google data center with Street View

一鍋二吃 花雕雞 創新麻辣重口味

A Farm for the Future

BBC documentary on the precient global farming and food crisis, filmed in the UK. Featuring Martin Crawford (Agroforestry Research Trust), Fordhall Farm, Richard Heinberg and others. Topics covered are the influence of oil on the food production, peak-oil, food security, carbon emissions, sustainability and permaculture.

Wednesday, October 03, 2012

Tuesday, October 02, 2012

肺臟第1問:為何有人感冒一兩天,很快變成嚴重肺炎?

肺臟是人體面積最大器官,有人說它是「一對綠葉」,在人體不停伸展收縮,為我們進行換氣。出問題就像樹枯了葉子,嚴重影響到健康。《康健》【身體百科-肺臟100問】公開強健肺、保養肺與治療肺的健康祕密...

Wednesday, September 26, 2012

Thursday, September 13, 2012

American EX-PAT Marries Island Hottie and Starts a Sustainable Farm in St. Croix - EX-PATS - Ep 2

Meet Nate Olive, an ex-pat from Atlanta who followed his dream of building a sustainable farm in paradise on this episode of EX-PATS. After a long sabbatical with a close friend who escaped death, Nate decided to leave what would be his past life behind him to follow his dream. Married to a beautiful Islander, Nate now has no complaints. On Episode 2 of EX-PATS, join Savannah Jane Buffett as she and Nate travel around the island of St. Croix, picking mangos, herding sheep and ultimately laughing their way to the beach. The journey has just begun.

Getting Heated in the Kitchen with Mario Batali and Eric Ripert - Full Episode 2

Mario Batali parks his Vespa right in Eric Ripert's NYC kitchen and lays it all On The Table - spices, sauces and couscous for his signature dish — Two-Minute Calamari: Sicilian Lifeguard Style. Mario shares with us his history as a chef — including life under the Marco Pierre White (for whom Mario has a few choice words). "I went in the back and may have shed a tear, then I took two big handfuls of salt and threw it in the mother sauce..." "Cin-Cin, Mother F***er."

Stanley Tucci And Eric Ripert Drink Vodka And Roast A Fish On 'On The Table' (VIDEO)

Stanley Tucci's Lemon Risotto with Whole Roasted Branzino Lemon Risotto: 2 tablespoons extra-virgin olive oil, plus additional for serving 1 large shallot, finely chopped 1 ½ cups Vialone Nano rice ½ cup dry white wine 5 cups hot homemade chicken stock or low-sodium store-bought broth 2 tablespoons unsalted butter 1 cup grated Parmigiano-Reggiano cheese 2 tablespoons fresh lemon juice Zest of 1 large lemon, plus additional for garnishing Chopped fresh flat-leaf parsley Fine sea salt and freshly ground black pepper http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qf-EU6P1UR0&feature=channel&list=UL

The Spangler Effect : Science Magic Season 01 Episodes 29 and 30

小吃攤雪平鍋含鋁 專家:恐傷腦少用

Wednesday, September 12, 2012

《本色美国》之品牌系列:"小资情调"的星巴克

随着中国经济的发展,中国日渐壮大的中产阶级的消费力得到越来越多的国际品牌的认可。许多欧美品牌纷纷抢滩中国,这其中包括著名的LV和GUCCI等。由于中国消费者对国­外品牌还不太熟悉,再加上对"舶来品"的崇尚心理,美国很多二、三线品牌,到中国后重新定位,将自己打造成一线高端品牌,甚至卖出奢侈品的价格。在我们的系列节目,"本色­美国 之品牌"系列中,我们要为你还原这些在中国的所谓"大牌"在美国的真实面目。这其中最典型的有哈根达斯和星巴克。这两个在美国大众品牌在中国的成功已经成为美国市场营销教­程的典范。这样的名单还可以列出很多很多,餐饮类如必胜客,猫头鹰等,服装类的CK、GUESS、Levi's,以及汽车类的Buick等等。在品牌@USA节目中,我们­将一一为您介绍。今天为你介绍在中国极富"小资"情调的星巴克在美国的本色。

煮出清澈的高湯

材料:雞骨600克、豬龍骨600克 不要拿豬關節骨來熬湯,因為油酯含量較高會讓湯濁白,先準備一鍋熱水,把雞骨.豬龍骨一起下鍋汆燙,直到水滾開,這樣就能去除肉質的薄膜與血,再來準備一鍋水把煮滾後的骨­頭撈起放入水中清洗,另再準備一鍋熱水,把清洗後的骨頭放入鍋中,注意要讓水微滾且不要蓋鍋蓋,滾開煮時湯表層會有油與浮膜要撈起,這樣煮三小時後,準備濾網來過濾高湯,­如果要更漂亮可再加棉布或紗布過濾,之後保存只要冷卻後用塑膠袋裝起或保鮮膜蓋住鍋子冷凍就可以了,要食用再退冰,這樣就完成高湯製作

Tuesday, September 11, 2012

How smoke detectors work

Bill takes apart a smoke detector and shows how it uses a radioactive source to generate a tiny current which is disrupted when smoke flows through the sensor. He describes how a special transistor called a MOSFET can be used to detect the tiny current changes.

20110219 東森財經新 聞 現代啟示錄 地下外交部 士林官邸 - 1

Sunday, September 09, 2012

Foundation 01 // Jack Dorsey

In this series premiere of Foundation, Kevin Rose interviews Jack Dorsey, the creator, co-founder and chairman of Twitter and the CEO of Square. The conversation talks of entrepreneurship, decision making, trial and error, and the path Jack took that lead to the creation of Twitter and Square.

Foundation 20 // Elon Musk

Elon Musk if the founder of PayPal, SpaceX, and Telsa Motors.

Monday, September 03, 2012

刻骨铭心的历史【澳洲广角】

【新唐人2012年7月15日讯】【澳洲广角】(436)刻骨铭心的历史:与辛亥革命同年的百岁老人康韶禹的沧桑人生。 【澳洲广角】黄金海岸 【澳洲广角】台客闪舞一起来 【澳洲广角】悉尼鱼市场 观众朋友们,大家好!我是凌云,欢迎收看澳洲广角。今天我要介绍给您的是两位生活在不同时代、有着不同背景的杰出人物。一位是历经百年沧桑,与辛亥革命童年的老人;另一位­呢则是曾经的澳州著名的橄榄球运动员,现今的大公司首席执行官。 康绍禹先生1911年出生于河北唐县的一个书香门第,这位与辛亥革命同年的老人,生于乱世,历经艰辛。但是凭着深厚的中国文化的底蕴,以及追随国父的三民主义的坚强信念,­使他得以潇洒走完充满变数的人生旅途。康老于2012年6月在墨尔本溘然谢世,让我们跟随康老的足迹去了解这一段刻骨铭心的历史。 橄榄球是澳洲人非常喜爱的一项运动,橄榄球明星们更是家喻户晓的人物。今天我们要一起走进Mark Coyne世界,看看这位曾经的澳洲橄榄球队的风云人物,是如何成功的华丽转身,成为一家大公司首席执行官的。

整個道路都塌了 記者差點掉下去

三峽老街淘空男摔死 朱立倫要究責

Thursday, August 30, 2012

Baby Soda Bottles Test Tubes & Rack

These transparent, unbreakable test tubes are used for safe science experiments in classrooms everywhere. They can be sealed with a bottle cap, thrown in the dishwasher, dropped, tapped, or stepped on and they just won't break! Great for encouraging kids to explore and create results on their own. Each test tube measures 15 cm (5.75") tall, 2.5 cm (1") in diameter and holds approximately 60 mL (2 ounces) of liquid. Includes a colorful test tube rack and an activity guide with lots of fun ideas to get kids started on their new science adventure. Perfect for your Science Discovery Center. Recommended for children ages 3 and up. What's included? 6 Large plastic test tubes (Baby Soda Bottles) with caps Test tube rack How does it work? Why are these test tubes called Baby Soda Bottles? Steve Spangler coined this name when he introduced them to teachers everywhere as the world's greatest test tube for kids. Believe it or not, Baby Soda Bottles are really just that: baby bottles before they are blown up into the 2-liter soda bottles you see in the store. Here’s how it works: The tubes are placed into a vacuum mold and heated so they soften. Hot air is then blown into the tube, stretching the warmed plastic to 40 times its original size. When the plastic cools into the shape of the mold, the bottle is ready to fill with your favorite refreshing drink. What does it teach? Baby Soda Bottles can be used to teach kids more things than you can imagine! Grow plants, observe critters, collect water samples, explore different densities, hydrate polymer crystals, and mix all the colors you can find in a rainbow. Kids are only limited by their own creativity—put one of these test tubes in their hands and they’ll be sure to discover something new! Product FAQ Does this come with an activity guide? Yes. There are 15 different hands-on activities inside the guide ranging from experimenting with colors to growing seeds and watching the roots to observing chemical reactions. These things can do it all. What color caps does it come with? The colors are either blue or yellow.

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