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Pete, the resident feline critic
The Pete Gazette
The Physics Desk Reviewed for kids & the grown-ups who shop for them Reviewed from the windowsill
Lead Review · From: Juvale
Five Silver Mice, One Strategic Claw, My Rhythm Now
Our critic intercepts a swinging sphere mid-air, stops the Juvale cradle's infernal click-clack, and grants it permission to resume — on his terms alone.

My human, in a fit of what I can only assume was profound boredom, has acquired a new contraption for her desk. It purports to be a "Newton's Cradle," a series of gleaming spheres suspended in a row, designed to demonstrate some tedious human concept called "physics." From my vantage point, it is a shiny, click-clacking distraction. The spheres are impressi…

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Fig. 1 — the subject
Pete's Verdict
★★★★☆
My rhythm now. It will stay.
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