Self-Powered Top Spins For Hours

The meaning of Inception’s ending famously revolves around a top which spins forever in dreams, but in real life comes to a stop like any other top. Any other top, that is, except for [Aaed Musa]’s…

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Traces of children's play during the Late Bronze Age in the southern Carpathian Basin [pdf 36pp] #BronzeAge #MarbleGames #marrididdles #SpinningTops #archaelogy #anthropology https://doi.org/10.33254/piaz.41.2.2
Tragovi igre djece tijekom kasnoga brončanog doba na jugu Karpatske kotline

Igra je svevremenska aktivnost. U proučavanju djetinjstva u prošlosti nezaobilazan izvor predstavljaju igračke, od kojih su se sačuvale samo one izrađene od trajnijih materijala. Rekonstrukcija igre u kasno brončano doba predstavlja složen proces – o...

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LOOK at THIS. This is so cool. It's like, an art piece. I've no interest in spinning a top. I want to own one just because it looks cool. Very unusual for an ad to get my attention. Serial numbers? $576???

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ForeverSpin™ World Famous Metal Spinning Tops

Precise, Durable and Elegant is what sets foreverspin apart form other spinning tops. A Spinning Top that is built to last and spin forever.

Tops, spinning tops!

What, haven't mentioned them before?

Something else I collect, but not so much recently. Got these two today made by Chase Lindley, one of the premier -- no, perhaps the best top maker -- at least in the world as I know it. The larger one spun for over 20 minutes the 2nd time I gave it a spin -- and I'm not very good at going doing it.

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The top that (almost) never stops

The top that (almost) never stops

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