Last night I learned that the best free thing ever (besides sex, which is never really
free, but that's another sentence) is the annual Michael Faraday Physics Demonstration at Rutgers: they must have done fifty experiments in an hour and a half, to a packed lecture hall; it was entertaining enough to keep Alex and Ian's attention for long past their bedtime: imploding chemical drums, flaming balloons, floating magnets, the Bernoulli effect, the physics of lying on a bed of nails, a professor in an old time football helmet on roller skates propelling himself with a fire extinguisher, and, of course, everyone's favorite . . . liquid nitrogen.
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ReplyDeleteI fail to see how liquid nitrogen could have been everyone's favorite when nearly every other experiment you referenced sounded more interesting than watching things freeze really fast. Perhaps liquid nitrogen is the reason my interest in this blog has frozen instantaneously...
ReplyDeleteI tend to think it has to do with your insane claim that Aqualung is the worst rock song, when clearly it is amazing.
more evidence of the dumbing down of the american student.
ReplyDeleteperhaps i was using irony when referring to liquid nitrogen and aqualung. or perhaps or i wasn't.
ReplyDeleteirregardless, my husband now wants to propel himself on roller skates using a fire extinguisher. thanks.
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