Tuesday, November 11, 2008

moon landingly cool, only mildly relevant

...and by "mildly relevant" I mean "having nothing to do with anything we've ever discussed as science club members." HOWEVER...I thought you all needed to know about this.

A friend of mine (from the future) just sent me a link to this commercial for the "shazam" application on apple's iphone. Granted, that may have sounded like I was speaking in oobleck, but just check this out.

Saturday, November 8, 2008

Non-Newtonian Fluid Fun

Following the excellent Oobleck lesson by Gaelan here are some videos demonstrating more unusual properties of non-newtonian fluids and articles with some extra information-

Here are the General Chemistry Online and Wikipedia entries, along with an interesting article about space pens.

Fun on Spanish Language TV:




ACTUAL SCIENTISTS even play with this stuff:



A DIY version of the above experiment using a speaker: