For true Christmas presence

I’ll say this really quietly to avoid annoying people but (Christmas is coming) and there are presents to be bought. And do I have the selection of gifts for the scientist who has everything. I even have budget choices. Ok so there’s only two choices, but that counts.

Option one - Conserve the Budget.
It takes guts to tell someone you love them. Soft, plush guts in fact. Like this fluffy heart and this lovely liver or these cuddly lungs.  But when urine love (sigh - their joke, not mine), only a kidney will do.

Option two - Blow the Budget.
This one isn’t quite so lovable, but we forgive it because it is unique. For the bargain price of $1554 you can be the owner of the only space rock documented to have caused a fatality on earth. The Valera Meteorite brought about the untimely end of a cow in Venezuela in 1972. How about that for a bolt from the blue! (sorry).

NB: The plush organs are the easier option in more ways than one, because the meteorite is technically no longer for sale. It got sold as part of an auction last week. Along with a mailbox dinged by a meteorite (which sold for $82,750), the rock wot dinged it (a bargain $7,700), and the big seller of the day, a Siberian meteorite that was a product of history’s largest known meteor shower for the eye-watering sum of $122,750.