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Bullets, Bald Eagles, & Lots About Fireworks
Welcome back to Science Goes Boom. Since today is Independence Day, let’s take a look at the boom mechanisms that made America free:
Jul 4
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June 2025
Oil Spills, Grappling Hooks, & When Cotton Goes Boom
Welcome back to Science Goes Boom. We’ll start today by showing two ways to climb scary towers…first up, the Matterhorn, with ropes:
Jun 27
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Bamboo, Equinoxes, & the Underutilized Blimp Warfare
Welcome back to Science Goes Boom, your mid-summer method of pumping school lessons into kids without their knowledge. First up, Adam Savage is finding…
Jun 20
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Plumbing, Flamethrower Robots, & Making Hay While The Sun Shines
Welcome back to Science Goes Boom. Since we’re running up against summer barbecue season, you may want learn the science of which meat to buy for the…
Jun 13
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Rocket Knives, Horse Hooves & Why Footballs Spin on the Down Angle
Welcome back to Science Goes Boom. This week we’ll start with a discussion about two kinds of now-valuable seafoods that were previously scorned:
Jun 6
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May 2025
Rice, Vietnam Dogfighting & Making Race Cars (sort of)
Welcome back to Science Goes Boom, where we discuss why the Space Force was created, and what the Chinese may have been mining on the dark side of the…
May 30
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Capybaras, Over-Engineering Toasters, & De-Engineering A Bike?
And yes, Colin Furze is involved. Welcome back to Science Goes Boom. This week begins with the science of getting your chainsaw unstuck, several…
May 23
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Carpentry, Chickens, & Pricey European Megaprojects
Welcome back to Science Goes Boom. This week begins with how and why the sky goes boom:
May 16
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Underground Cities, Knots, & When Wasps Squat In A Camper
Welcome back to Science Goes Boom. We’ll start with the extreme racing that Ford and Ferrari made popular a few years back, and Ferrari just recently…
May 9
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Underground Cities, Knots, & When Wasps Squat In A Camper
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Rocks, Sunken Treasure, & Two Ways To Explode Crossbows
Welcome back to Science Goes Boom. We’ve got several two-fers this week dealing with both rocks and exploding things, but our first one deals with…
May 2
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Rocks, Sunken Treasure, & Two Ways To Explode Crossbows
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April 2025
SpaceX Suits, Japanese Longbows, & Cutting The (Parmesan) Cheese (Wheel)
Welcome back to Science Goes Boom. We’re gonna get this one rolling with the eagles. No, not the band. No, not the Lord of the Rings ones, either:
Apr 25
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Lighthouses, Beef Jerky, & Exploding With Air Pressure
Welcome back to Science Goes Boom. You’ve probably seen people try to lift the Fredricksen house from Up with weather balloons, but how many actual…
Apr 18
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