We have all seen the Diet Coke and Mentos videos on YouTube. I have also done this with plain sugar and any soda (see video). After experimenting, the Mythbusters concluded:
“There’s a cascade that happens with — it’s a little esoteric — an ion exchange. Basically the Mentos start to dissolve, and it’s like […]
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Mythbusters Explain Why Diet Coke and Mentos Explode
Published by August 5th, 2006 in News. 5 CommentsI recently traveled through Ireland, England, Scotland, Wales, and Paris. I put together some of the more interesting science related items. I saw Dolly the cloned sheep on display in the Royal Museum in Edinburgh Scotland. She of course was the first successfully cloned organism, which created quite a stir in the […]
Buying/Selling Lesson Plans
Published by July 1st, 2006 in Education, News and Resources. 0 CommentsInteresting site. I think the yearly fee is too high ($29.95), I would rather have a percentage of each sale taken off. I have checked out the site and as of now there aren’t many lessons, and the lessons seem to be of the skill drill variety. This might improve in time. […]
When students learn about cell biology, they learn all about the nucleus, DNA, RNA, and ribosomes. In other words they learn about how the cell works and how DNA is the blueprint for all the proteins. The proteins do all the work for the cell. Unfortunately the DNA is contained in the […]
I am in the process of changing my sciencefix.com site from a traditional website to a blog. This will take some time. I will provide a link to the old site, which I am going to call “Classic Sciencefix.com”, as soon as possible so that you can have access to all of the resources. This […]
Happy new year to everyone! Now that the holidays are over and I am currently not training for a marathon, I can focus some of my attention back on ScienceFix.com. I did finish the California International Marathon in 3:43, lowering my previous best by 40 minutes. I certainly hit a severe wall at mile 22, […]
Education Technology Links & Hurricane Katrina
Published by September 6th, 2005 in News and Resources. 0 CommentsI have found a great RSS feed for education technology articles. The site is Educational Technology. It is a blog written by Ray Schroeder. I highly recommend subscribing to the RSS feed of it. It covers all levels of education and it is updated pretty much daily. One of the interesting articles provided by his […]
I have somewhat of an announcement. In the remote case that my website gets thousands of hits and the video clips get downloaded for viewing, I have made available the quicktime clips via Coral CDN. This is a test case to see if the quicktime clips can be downloaded smoothly and not put a strain […]
After a long a long absence from this blog I'm back! Right after the school year ended, I ran my first marathon in the Rock and Roll Marathon and it was a blast. I think the next one will be the CIM in Sacramento. The next day my wife and I got on a plane […]
