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Welcome to the Corona Virus Chronicles... Tim is now self-isolating, and presenting his videos directly from his apartment, via a web link.
Spinning tops can be amazing, but when they are also magnetic, they offer even more possibilities!
First, a magnetic top interacts with a metal snake on the table. The rotating top causes the snake to move up and down along the top...
Then a magnetic top with Escher images, which interacts with one or two metal discs on the table, also with Escher images.
Then a top that Tim made himself, from a paperclip. It incorporates a tiny super magnet, so this can also do the snake trick we saw earlier.
Finally, a spinning top that revolves around a frame. You can move the handle, which keeps the top spinning.