Food Chain Friends

It's one of the laws of nature: bigger critters eat smaller ones. Now you can have your very own cuddly food chain at home with the "Food Chain Friends" plush toys from FAO Schwartz. The description:

Food Chain Friends are from Daro, a small green planet much like Earth was 200 million years ago. Daro teems with wildlife, and its exceptionally social and gracious species flourish in a complex - but oddly, very friendly - ecosystem. They're friends. They eat each other. It's a complicated relationship!

National Chemistry Week Gear

National Chemistry Week is October 19-25, so there's still time to order some chem pride gear from the American Chemical Society. This year's theme is "Having a Ball With Chemistry", so have some fun!

Shown above: Women's "Proud to be a Chemist" Hoodie, Meg A. Mole Plush Doll, Women's Baby Doll T-Shirt, Plastic Flasks.
See the ACS web site for the full selection of sizes and many more chem-related items.

Higgs Boson plush toy

Celebrate the successful test of the Large Hadron Collider with an adorable Higgs Boson plushie from Particle Zoo. Hopefully the scientists at the LHC will be seeing a real one soon!

Giant E. Coli and Other Microbes

Are you sick in love with a biology geek? Why not show her how much you care with a plush Giant E.Coli or other giant microbe?

The Trouble With Tribbles . . .

. . . is that they are oh so soft and cuddly.

Etsy seller coatcheck has some very soft-looking Tribble pillows made from recycled fur coats. They are the perfect accent for any Star Trek-lovers living room or bedroom.

These fur balls do resemble the fast-breeding species in the well-known Star Trek episode "The Trouble with Tribbles", but they're more than just toys. They also double as elegant pillows to mix in with your other pillows and decor accessories. The fur has been professionally cleaned and is soft and fun to touch. Recycled from deconstructed clean vintage fur coats, these small pillows are high-design and beautiful but also very amusing at parties, adult or otherwise. The round shape is great on couches as a counterpoint to rectilinear design. These are not perfectly spherical - they are pleasing, slightly flattened spheres. The seam is at the widest diameter and is slightly scalloped - more so on thicker hides like raccoon, but this is evident mainly to the touch, not the eye. We try to make fur balls mainly out of longish-haired furs as we think it works better.

Jokes about this item will ensue... be warned.

(via Ooh, I've Got Something to Show You)

Particle Zoo Plush Toys

The Particle Zoo sells cute plush toys representing subatomic particles. You can buy them individually or buy a set. What physicist wouldn't love a 4-pack of bosons (weak gauge boson, photon, gluon, Higgs boson; pictured at left) or a 5-pack of theoretical particles (Higgs boson, dark matter, tachyon, Kaluza-Klein, graviton)? 

Giver Her Kissing Disease, the Clap, or a Little Food Poisoning

GIANTmicrobes has a great line-up of plush microbes from Epstein-Barr virus "Mono" (kissing disease), to gonorrhea (the clap), to rhinivirus (the common cold), to Yersina pestis (black death). I especially like the cute E. coli (pictured at left).

DIY Valentine's Day Gifts

The MAKE Blog has a roundup of do-it-yourself ideas for Valentine's Day. They include a wide range of projects, from bleeding heart cupcakes to LED "I Love You"s . There is nothing like making a LOVE sign or touch-activated valentine (pictured) to show your Geek Girl how much you care. (And there is nothing hotter than a man who knows his way around a soldering iron.)