Straws

Well, it’s been an…interesting weekend.  While trying to be productive, I began researching the LifeStraw® because my partner and I clearly need a new debate case.  Basically, the LifeStraw® is a sort of cheap purification tool that removes microorganisms responsible for causing water bourne illnesses (like diarrhea, the 2nd leading cause of death in Sub-Saharan Africa!) from [...]

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Del Sol Nail Polish

After arriving back in Oahu Sunday evening, I had a restful sleep for the first time in two weeks.  Naturally, I didn’t wake up until Monday afternoon (16 hours of sleep!) and I probably could have slept until Tuesday morning if I didn’t have homework to do…
Anyways, I really didn’t feel like doing anything strenuous [...]

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Zeus

Remember a long, long time ago when I wrote a teensy little bit about lightning?  Of course you don’t.
But seeing that we’re now studying electric charge, I will in fact expand on that ancient post.  Electrons flow from negatively charged objects to positively charged ones and lightning is an example of this.  Lightning transfers a [...]

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Thermometers!

Since we’re now studying heat and temperature, the thermometer is the perfect object to examine.  Thermometers are of course used for measuring temperature.   This is possible because two objects placed in contact with each other will eventually reach a common temperature.

The old glass thermometers most of us are familiar with are usually filled with mercury.  [...]

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