That's right. Science is happening. One of the things that has really been interesting for us so far this year is that there are holidays dedicated to science experiments. We did some reading and we're pretty sure they evolved as a way to convince schools to do more hands on experimentation with their students by making it an official day. It makes sense -- one of the holidays we're celebrating later in the year is Mole Day and another is Pi Day. If math and chemistry can have holidays, why can't physics. If you don't let physics have a holiday, there's gonna be some friction, boy howdy. That's right. That happened. Deal with it.
As for us, we decided we would attempt the hardboiled egg trick. I say attempt because the first thing we did was melt a plastic bottle. Which I do not have pictures of. Because I was busy dealing with melted plastic and the choking, acrid smoke that resulted from it. For those who don't know - the hard boiled egg trick is where you take a peeled hard boiled egg, shove some candles into it and then put the whole thing into an upside-down beaker. The heat from the candles does physics related things and sucks the egg up into the beaker.
This is how it's supposed to look.
In short, this holiday was the second in a little not-so-great streak for cataloging the holidays for us. I tend to triage not burning the house down above photography.
Which, apparently sets me apart from the rest of my generation.
We had a lot of fun being idiots with plastic and ruining an egg. But we also found the experiment pretty enlightening, even messed up. I think it's going to become one that we do with kids when we have them. I'm gonna take a bold stance here and say there should be more holidays based on science experiments. I bet we could fill an entire calendar with them pretty easily, actually. SOMEONE GET ON THAT.
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