The Awe and Wonder of Magnets and Magnetix

Several months back, I published a small article on the "Awe and Wonder of Magnets and Magnetix.  Here is an excerp from the artilce:

Remember when you were a kid around say... the 5th grade? Probably not, but if you think about what follows, it will bring back some happy memories. Magnets have been the introduction of science to children for generations. Magnets, and that unseen force keeping one from touching the other or in that same instant, flipping madly around and sticking together. What a fun way to start off learning about science.

Well back to the 5th grade. Back then we had the old fashioned horseshoe magnets, remember them? The teacher would break out the iron filings, a sheet of paper and the small horseshoe magnet and there you had it, your first scientific experiment...


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