Make Something! Do Something!
Make Something
- Ping-pong thrower
- Homemade flame thrower
- Fireballs
- Homemade snickers bar
- Bread
- Pencil crossbow
- Tilt-shift photography
- Duct tape projects
- Build with Grid Beam
- Free Props
- Make Cheap Whiskey Taste Like Fancy Whiskey
- Ginger Beer
- Relight a candle via its vapor trail
- Flammable gas in a glass jar
- Decomposition of mercury(II) thiocyanate
- Polymerization of nitro aniline
- Turn water into ice in a few seconds by freezing distilled water for 2.5 hours in a bottle, and then hitting the bottle
- Make a homopolar motor with just a battery, a wire, and a magnet
- Measure speed of radio waves: Put the chocolate bar (or a piece of cheese) in the microwave and switch the power off as soon as melting begins. The bar melts at regularly spaced spots, half a wavelength apart.
- Rubbing a plastic spoon with a piece of wool charges it. Such a charged spoon can be used to extract pepper from a salt–pepper mixture by holding the spoon over the mixture.
- Measure weight of a car with a rules (measure area of contact of tires and multiple by tire pressure)
- Show that light is a wave with your fingers only — two fingers in front of your eye, almost touch, see black lines
Do Something
- Next time you see a "How is my driving?" sticker on a car or truck, and the driver did something worth complimenting, call and compliment the driver
- Walk into an office building and ask to see the elevator inspection certificate
- Call the NYC Department of Health and ask what the health code violations were for a restaurant of your choice. (An "A" rating means a restaurant could still have had 13 violations)
- Read an End User License Agreement. In its entirety
- Next time you see a movie that, in the credits, says that no animals were harmed, verify it (not sure how)