Science In The City

As I’ve wandered around New York city lately a couple things have struck me as being relevant to the self-aware science geek. Here’s the first. More to come.

For one, I went to New York magazine‘s shopping pages to see what pretty things were for sale and where. There I came across a Design*Sponge‘s take on the purdiest things to take home. And lo and behold item number 105 out of 126 on her Shop-A-Matic list was a “Science series decanter” on sale at Clio in Soho for a whopping $334 (actually that’s for the small one. The large one is $485). Now this is great because it means that science is trendy but it’s also stupid because only a fashion slave douchebag would buy this item for a small fortune when you can get the real deal for $7.95 from Edmund Scientific’s. That one’s 1000ml so it should fit a bottle of wine just fine. But if you want an even larger one to hold your wine in a slightly prettier fashion get the 2000ml one from 4Physics.com for $18.30.