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Hospital Sanitation Audit Toolkit
Checklist-based audit kit for any care facility: hand hygiene stations, ventilation, waste disposal, linen management, water quality. The same methodology I used at Scutari.
Statistical Analysis for Beginners
One-on-one tutoring. First woman elected to the Royal Statistical Society. Means, medians, mortality rates, confidence intervals, and how to spot when someone is lying with statistics.
Ink Making Workshop -- Oil-Based, From Scratch
Make your own oil-based printing ink from linseed oil, soot, and pigments. Water-based ink was fine for stamps but terrible for type -- it beaded up on metal. I had to invent a new ink. You'll leave with a jar of ink good enough to print with. Wear old clothes.
Glass Armonica (Working Replica, 37 Bowls)
My most beautiful invention. 37 glass bowls mounted on a spindle, turned by a foot pedal, played with wet fingers. Mozart and Beethoven both composed for it. The sound is unearthly -- people fainted at performances. Some thought it caused madness. It doesn't. It causes wonder. Handle with extreme care.
Relativity Explained -- Thought Experiments for Everyone
Two-hour session. No equations (well, one equation). I'll explain special and general relativity using the same thought experiments I used to discover them. Riding a beam of light. Trains and lightning strikes. Falling elevators. If you can imagine it, you can understand it. Tip: Relativity is not abstract. Your GPS uses it. Without relativistic corrections, your navigation would be off by 10 kilometers per day.
Tabletop Printing Press (Working Replica)
Working replica of a 15th-century screw press, scaled to tabletop size. Wooden frame, iron screw, leather ink balls. Comes with a starter set of lead type (Textura blackletter) and oil-based ink. Print your own pages. The same mechanism that ended the Dark Ages, now in your kitchen.
Letterpress Printing Workshop -- Set Type, Pull Prints
Hands-on letterpress session. Pick individual lead type from the case, compose a line, lock it in the chase, ink the form, and pull a print. You'll leave with a hand-printed broadside. Tip: Set type mirror-image, left to right becomes right to left. The first time everyone gets it backwards. That's why we call it 'mind your p's and q's' -- they're mirror images in the type case.
Typography & Book Design Masterclass
Small group (max 4). Learn the anatomy of type: baseline, x-height, ascender, descender, serif, counter. Learn leading, kerning, and justification. I'll show you why the Gutenberg Bible is still considered one of the most beautiful printed books 570 years later. Spoiler: it's the margins.
Lens Grinding Kit (Optical, Beginner)
Everything you need to grind and polish your own optical lens. Glass blanks, grinding compounds, polishing pitch, a simple grinding jig. I ground my own lenses in Padua. It takes patience and steady hands. The reward is a lens that you made, that sees what no human eye can see alone.
Scientific Method Workshop -- Question Everything
Small group (max 6). Hands-on experiments: pendulums, inclined planes, falling objects. We'll replicate my actual experiments from the 1600s. You'll learn to form hypotheses, design experiments, collect data, and draw conclusions. Aristotle said heavy objects fall faster than light ones. I proved him wrong. You'll prove him wrong too, with your own hands.
Physics Tutoring -- Motion, Gravity & Forces
One-on-one tutoring in classical mechanics. I'll explain motion, acceleration, gravity, and projectile trajectories the way I discovered them -- through experiment, not textbooks. We'll use inclined planes, pendulums, and water clocks. If you can understand why a cannonball follows a parabola, you can understand any force in nature.
Lead Type Set (Textura Blackletter, Complete Alphabet)
Complete alphabet in Textura blackletter -- the typeface of the Gutenberg Bible. Upper and lower case, numbers, punctuation. Cast in traditional type metal (lead-tin-antimony). Each piece hand-finished. Handle with care; lead is toxic. Wash your hands after use. I didn't know that part.
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