We would have such a rockin' time with this

http://www.chrisbrunner.com/2006/09/21/banned-the-golden-book-of-chemistry-experiments/

That is so cool. I'm downloading it now.

Thanks for the link!

At 70KB/sec it's taking a while. It's well done. What's so dangerous about it?

I downloaded it too.  I had a chemistry kit growing up.  I'd have preferred an Erector set, quite frankly.  Mechanics is more my line.

SoP, you need to shell out some doe for a decent connection. I had it within a minute (using the FREE download option).

There is nothing really dangerous about it but it encourages kids to mess around with chemicals.

Man, I could SWEAR I had one of these as a little kid.  The book probably got 'drowned' in a basement flooding incident long ago.

> encourages kids to mess around with chemicals.

Oh, that knowledge stuff. We must stop that.

home of the free, land of the brave, go figure

Well, it does tell you how to make explosive hydrogen, and poisenous Chlorine gas.

That dude David Hahn tried to build his own homemade nuclear reactor.  He joined the Navy and they wouldn't let him into the nuke program.  How awful.  What talent we waste.

I doubt building a nuclear reactor is covered in the book.

I wonder if there are instructions for that on Google...

No doubt there is. Maybe on www.howstuffworks.com

I just browsed the book. It's a bit dated, but it's all elementary stuff covered in school science lessons. It's also a bit worthy and educational, not much fun to be found in it. The story of it being banned is not true, surely?

"but it's all elementary stuff covered in school science lessons."

I wouldn't count on that in the US public school system, and I wouldn't count on teachers giving any real enthusiasm to the subject, either.  The fun parts are novel, not the particulars of the science.

I would enjoy making soap, for example, and making a point about bases and acids, without shoving it down the kid's throat.

top quote from :

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Hahn

"Hahn suffered local ignominy, but did attain the rank of Eagle Scout."

Can someone upload it somewhere? I don't have torrent access here :(

it is also on eMule, Masiosare.