Toscanini’s belt driven ice cream maker heads off the N.Y. Times’ tour of places for science lovers in Boston. The museums at MIT and Harvard are noted, alongside the famed Boston Museum of Science (you really can’t beat a one million volt Van de Graaff generator demonstration for entertaining science). The recommendations are capped off with suggestions for places to rub shoulders with the local geeks including MIT hangout, Mary Chung’s restaurant. (bonus image link: Make Way For Dumplings by Craig Swanson).