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5 Totally Bizarre Ways To Put Out A Candle
Video: How do you put a candle? It’s simple, just blow it out. Easy enough, right? But so not interesting. The always inquisitive Physics Girl shows us five weird and wacky ways to kill the flame from a candle and each are more interesting than the next. You could use a copper coil or a…
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Skiing In The Dark With A Torch Attached To A Ski Is Wild Fun
Video: Night skiing and night boarding usually requires some sort of light. But what if that light was a torch attached to the ski or snowboard? Then you’d get this fiery visual of a man on fire shredding the slopes. The white of the snowy mountain gets replaced with this hellish red and it looks…
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Spinning Burning Steel Wool Around Looks Like Being Inside Fireworks
Video: You know how there’s different levels to “Don’t try this at home”? One end of the spectrum is “absolutely not are you crazy you will die”, and the other is “eh, I think it’s safe enough to do”. Lighting steel wool on fire and then spinning it around on a rope to spread the…
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Lighting 10,000 Sparklers At Once Was The Best Way To Ring In The New Year
Today in “amazing ideas the internet had” we bring you an experiment that is without a doubt the best way to celebrate the end of 2015 and an even better way to usher in 2016. One sparkler is fun, but 10,000 igniting at the same time? That’s a science experiment you have to see.