Scientific American Frontiers 1993. Actor Alan Alda became the permanent host starting in the fall season of 1993 and continued until the show ended in 2005. So the show was also billed as "Alan Alda in Scientific American Frontiers". Alda's tenure has been notable for his humble and often humorous approach: in one memorable segment, he became car sick while driving an experimental, virtual reality vehicle. In 2005, Alda published his first round of memoirs, "Never Have Your Dog Stuffed: and Other Things I've Learned", published by Random House (); in the book, he recalls his intestines becoming strangulated while on location in
Stuffed toy in 1903. Sock monkeys are a type of handmade stuffed monkey made out of socks, which first appeared in the US during the Great Depression. Amigurumi is a Japanese type of handcrafted knitted or crocheted stuffed toys. Amigurumi are typically made to look cute with oversized heads and undersized extremities. Simple stuffed toys can be sewn using a cloth such as felt and stuffing such as cotton. Pillow Pets are a brand of stuffed toys that can be folded from a pillow into a stuffed animal. Some other companies include funko, plushland, sanshee, suki, and TY. Several brands of electronic