Posted on 04/13/2016 1:12:08 PM PDT by Behind Liberal Lines
Last fall, my daughter Veronica got an idea for the seventh grade science fair at her school. She’d compare different ways to clean a toothbrush. First she’d take a new toothbrush out of a package and brush her teeth, covering it with her mouth bacteria. Then, she’d clean it with one of three liquids: water, lemon juice, or vinegar. Finally, she’d wipe the brushes on Petri dishes and see how many bacteria grew on them...
Veronica submitted her plan, and then reported back to me that we had to fill out some forms. These forms turned out to be an avalanche of confusing paperwork. We also learned that this experiment was so potentially dangerous that Veronica would have to carry it out under the supervision of a trained expert, who would first have to submit a detailed risk assessment.
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Any experiment that dares to question the “orthodoxy of the day” (so-called climate change, little boys and little girls really *ARE* different) will be killed a-birthing, and its sponsors shunned and vilified.
Prepare yourselves, kiddies!
About 20 years ago I remember reading about a guy who was offering a “solar powered clothes dryer” for sale for $20. He made this amazing offer in the back of magazines, etc. People would send him the $20, and they’d get about 10 feet of clothesline and a dozen clothespins.
Depending upon age, there are probably not many kids that could put together a decent science fair project without some adult help. It does get them thinking about what scientists actually do and how they do it though.
Wow, they would have freaked at my experiment involving solid rocket engines having testing for different thrust strengths in differing oxygen environments in 8th grade.
As excepted it did little until it got so rich that it caught the metal stand on fire and burned everything up in about 1 second.
Made a heck of a bang.
My brother had the idea for a guaranteed bug killer: two blocks of wood.
“We also learned that this experiment was so potentially dangerous that Veronica would have to carry it out under the supervision of a trained expert, who would first have to submit a detailed risk assessment.”
Well, duh, if you are culturing potentially deadly bacteria, you ought to have someone around who actually knows the risks and how to mitigate them.
I read the whole article - on and on - and didn’t find the results of his daughter’s science experiment either....
Water, vinegar or lemon juice?
Perhaps a kid can remove the LED display from a $5 alarm clock from wal mart. And place it in another casing, and then call it a clock
The charge is valid. It part of the process of resume padding starting prenatally to build an application for an elite university. The kid who builds a telescope on his own with spare parts from the barn counts for nothing these days. To count these days, Daddy has to get you a job in a laboratory at age 10 working for a Nobel Prize winner, who, by the way, got where he did by building a telescope at age 10 from used junk around the house. Gumption, self-reliance and inventiveness are things that you cannot give someone.
Science fair was fun. My dad always got excellent grades on my projects.
Take an average intelligence person,
marinade him in communism,
and see what happens.
When I was in Jr High, my science teacher had “explosive day”.
Ended by throwing 1/2 lb of Sodium in a trashcan full of water.
The end result was I went all-in and took every science/electronics class I could in my teens.
Now I travel the world helping design microprocessors for companies.
If all I had gotten was the nonsense coming out of today’s ‘science’ classes, I would be a car mechanic.
Make a volcano out of PlayDoh. Fill it with vinegar and baking soda. Take your “C” and move on with life.
Do kids today know the name Julius Sumner Miller?
Well, duh, if you are culturing potentially deadly bacteria, you ought to have someone around who actually knows the risks and how to mitigate them.
Oh I don't know, the risk is pretty minimal. In my college microbiology class there was more than one lunch bag in the fridge that held all the Petri dishes. Once the critters are stuck to the agar agar and the lid is on the dish, it's pretty safe.
Now he wants everyone to know how concerned he is about them.
He could have simply had his daughter do her project as her project and competed against other students who did their own work.
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