It’s a Gas!
Monday, May 5th, 2008
Pooting, Tooting, Farting, Breaking Wind, Cutting the Cheese, whatever you want to call it, the average person produces about half a liter of intestinal gas per day which is expelled in the form of flatulence about 14 times daily.
The following web links get into the science behind this smelly but vital bodily function:
Kidzworld: The Science of […]
How is your tongue like an inkjet printer?
Friday, April 11th, 2008Most inkjet printers use only four basic ink colors - Cyan, Magenta, Yellow and Black. The printer combines these colors to represent each image pixel in various colors, shades, and intensities. The image is dithered, meaning the printer uses a pattern of several of its dots to simulate the color of each pixel in the […]
Horrifying 12-Day Cool Whip Experiment
Thursday, April 10th, 2008This experiment answers that age old question; “What happens to Cool Whip if I leave it out on the counter for 12 days?”
I particularly liked the “drawing-a-smiley-face-on-it study”.
To see the study and accompanying photos CLICK HERE
Ice Cream of the Future
Friday, March 28th, 2008There’s an ongoing joke at our house and it goes something like this:
Hey! does anyone want ice cream?
Sure! What kind?
Why, the ice cream of the future, of course!
For some reason, it strikes us as perversely funny that the founders of Dippin’ Dots should look into the future and see us all strapping on our jet-packs to go […]
Meet Dexter
Friday, March 14th, 2008Science Junkies now has an official mascot! His name is Dexter and he is our Mad Scientist in residence. Dexter’s (and Science Junkie’s) motto is “Science is Sweet!”
Dexter first turned up on a birthday cake created for us by Susie G’s for our recent Science Party. We had also wanted some cool science-themed cookies for […]
Party Science
Saturday, March 8th, 2008
We just had a great science-themed birthday party for our 10-year-old science junkie. See the details and how-tos on the party page. The Mad Scientist on our cake is the Science Junkies mascot, Dexter.
In the above picture Dexter has a horror movie moment and we get a glimpse into his innermost thoughts.
Every bit of this cake’s […]
Orange you a little yellow?
Monday, March 3rd, 2008I knew a girl once who’s skin turned an orangey-yellow color because she had eaten so many carrots. I kid you not! This relatively benign condition is called Carotenemia. My friend’s yellow-orange skin hue was a tell-tale sign of a beta carotene overdose resulting from her over-zealous carrot consumption. Beta carotene, along with other plant pigments generally called […]
Sweet Science
Friday, February 29th, 2008It’s the fuel that feeds the human brain. Plants manufacture it through photosynthesis and kids of all ages crave it. What is it? Well, sugar of course! We all consume some of it every day but hardly give a thought to what we’re eating.
What is Sugar?
The white stuff we know as sugar […]
Waiter! There’s a solar system in my cup!
Monday, February 25th, 2008If you are ever in Vancouver, B.C. you might want to drop in at one of the 5 Caffe Artigiano locations around the city. Their champion baristas can turn your cup of hot chocolate or latte into a work of art. I particularly liked this cosmic design!
If you like the idea of a downsized universe, […]
Berry Sneaky!
Friday, February 15th, 2008The next time you bite into a piece of fruit you better look twice!
Scientists have discovered a parasite that disguises an ant as a fruit.
When tiny, microscopic parasites called nematodes infect a gliding ant, they turn the end of the ant’s abdomen bright red. In the sunlight, it looks like a juicy berry.
Steve Yanoviak, Tropical […]
