Tasting A Scoby, Surviving An Avalanche, And Pencil Sharpeners That Can Kill You
If you have a truckload of old tires and don’t want to use them as a backstop for a shooting range, or burn them to create an environmental disaster, or paint them to make redneck flower pots, this might be an option:
If the sun were a gigantic inflatable lawn pumpkin, what would you look like in scale?
The basic pencil sharpener is a nearly perfect design, so of course it makes sense to over-engineer several dangerous alternatives. Also, it looks like Shane got a new toy:
My eight-year-old mentioned he wanted to try out a pogo stick. I asked him if he’d considered a gas-powered pogo stick. I might be sleeping on the sofa tonight:
Some basic science projects you may have seen before, still adequate to wow four-year-olds and low-information media junkies:
I don’t understand why anyone would ever climb a mountain in the winter, but if you do here are a few tips about not dying. Losing your nose to frostbite is a different story altogether:
My wife has had these little organisms in jars on the counter for years. At first they gave me that Alien Xenomorph face-hugger vibe, but now they’re little pro-biotic friends, and produce a non-alcoholic poor-man’s Hard Apple ale:
And finally, here’s a good discussion on the problems with evolutionary theory, with bees!
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