The shoddy science behind fidget spinners
by Sean Gregory
May 13, 2017
2 minutes
JENN JARMULA, AN ELEMENTARY- and middle-school teacher in Chicago, recently hung a sign outside her classroom. THIS IS A FIDGET SPINNER FREE ZONE, it read. Fidget spinners—which dominate Amazon’s top-selling toys and games list—are nothing more than gadgets with three weighted prongs that spin, spin, spin on the fingers of sixth-graders like tiny ceiling fans. They’ve existed in some form since 1993, but lately they’ve grown so
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