Carpentry, Chickens, & Pricey European Megaprojects

Welcome back to Science Goes Boom. This week begins with how and why the sky goes boom:

As a lightning bonus, here’s one on where not to live if you don’t like the sky going boom:

Chickens: Feed ‘em, herd ‘em, put ‘em in a stew:

[Parent’s Note (for all the non-farm kids): Very blunt science facts about mating and fertilization begin at the 9:30 timestamp.]

How to sneak up before unleashing booms:

Creative projects require creative problem solving:

A peak behind the curtain exposes why not to spend money on carnival games:

Another thing that makes you go hmm: The UK spending billions of dollars placing wind turbines that require millions annually in maintenance costs at sea—the most inhospitable, corrosive location imaginable. The trains are cool, though:

All it takes to make your own English longbow is time, natural resources, some mad dad skills, and tons of specialty tools:

Surely the Star Wars fan base isn’t so meticulous that it has all of the ships in the Wookiepedia universe catalogued by every conceivable metric, right? You underestimate their powers:

And finally, speaking of speed, a little bit about birds that fly faster than Luke’s land speeder:

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