So you want your very own hovercraft. Well once again, Geek Slop is here to help. Of course, it’s only big enough to hold a mouse (maybe two if the first one scrunches down real low) but hey, you’re not old enough for a driver’s license anyway…
Tag: cardboard
The evolution of a spider (or not) experiment – demonstrating Darwin’s Theory of Evolution using cardboard spiders.
Being a prominent (ahem) member of the scientific community, Geek Slop has a lot of scientist friends. Geek Slop knows that the thing that bugs scientists more than anything, is when people don’t believe their theories (well, that and burning lab coats). And when it comes to Darwin’s Theory of Evolution, scientists treat it almost…
Lemon battery experiment – if life gives you lemons, make a battery!
Batteries store chemical energy that can be transmitted as electrical energy through various components in a circuit. You can think of the circuit as the path the electrons (electricity) take. The path has to have no breaks in it and it much be a path made of a material that will allow the electrons to…