By Jim Wiese
Notice the unusual technological know-how in the back of the ickiest, wackiest, most unique issues ever to exist! do you want to make your individual slime, observe how lava lamps paintings, or learn the way fabrics decompose?Have you ever heard approximately ball lightning or the Aurora Borealis at the information and puzzled what the reporter was once speaking approximately? Are you searching for nice rules to your subsequent technological know-how reasonable venture? when you replied "yes" to any of those questions, then bizarre technological know-how is for you! From banana slugs and dry ice to optical illusions and time commute, you are going to examine one of the most strange clinical oddities in the world. Dozens of fun-packed actions assist you see for your self how quicksand relatively works, why our ft occasionally get pungent, how malicious program holes and black holes are shaped, why bugs can stroll on water, and masses extra. you are going to even see how one can flip those outstanding actions into technological know-how tasks! each one scan is secure and straightforward to do, and all you would like is daily stuff from round the apartment. So prepare to take an odd, creepy, and occasionally even gross trip via bizarre Science!"
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5. Have your helper get on hands and knees at the “home” side of the room. 6. Put the smell cup on the floor on the opposite side of the room. This will represent the flower your “insect” wants to find. 7. Have your helper crawl to the “flower” by using only the sense of smell. 8. Which smell was easiest to find? Which smell was the most difficult? Explanation You and your helper should be able to find the cup after a little time. While our sense of smell is not as good as that of some insects, it is still remarkable.
Try this activity to find out. 49 Materials larger room helper cloth for a blindfold kitchen chairs Note: Ask permission before moving the furniture to perform this project. Procedure 1. For this experiment, you will need a large open space. Have your helper help you push the furniture against the walls in a large room. 2. Sit on one side of the room. 3. Cover your eyes with the blindfold and tie it behind your head so it stays in place. 4. Have your helper put several chairs or other obstacles in the middle of the room.
They can deliver a shock of up to 500 volts. This is enough to knock over a human or even a full-grown horse. A normal household plug delivers 120 volts. Repeated shocks from an eel can even cause death. While the electric eel is the most well known of this group, there are also electric catfish and electric rays. But the electric eel gives off the most powerful electric shock of them all! PROJECT Mudskippers We normally think of fish as living in the water and breathing through gills, special organs that let fish take oxygen out of the water.