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 leaks and patching bike tires with sonic imaging:

Where do all of those wonderful cuts of pork come from?

Parent’s note: The last minute and a half (starting at the 18:00 minute mark) deals with the head. It’s not bloody or disturbing in my opinion, but then I’m a dad, soooo…you may want to skip that for younger audiences.

By request, a short video on making homemade arrows:

If every ecosystem has Most Valuable Resource award, bamboo wins it in a lot of locations:

Speaking of resource allocation, get ready for Science Goes Gaming part 4:

Note: We’ve previously covered Battleship, Risk, and Monopoly:

Now for some real, and theoretical, astronomy-based physics. Also, why a future Great Year may not be so great:

Parent’s note: He goes into a brief but wonderfully sarcastic note on astrology at the 5:00 timestamp.

How blimps might have prevented Pearl Harbor:

This is the reason why the next time you go shopping, your kids are going to be bugging you to buy lots of rubber bands and balloons and pasta and hot glue guns and…

And finally, how the Leaning Tower of Pisa keeps from falling, and keeps leaning, just not as much:

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