Tag: experiment
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Teacher’s Science Experiment Reveals the Importance of Washing Your Hands In a Disgusting Experiment
Teaching children to love science can be difficult. Getting kids to wash their hands can be even more so. Well, Tennessee-based teacher Courtney Lee Simpson has managed to do both for her class in one foul, really gross swoop. In a post that's gone viral on Facebook, Simpson showed off a neat experiment she did…
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Man Deliberately Drops 200 Wallets Across America To See How Honest We Are
Former NASA scientist and real-world social experiment commentator Mark Rober recently lost his wallet. If you’ve lost your wallet or purse before you know how much of a pain it is to replace everything. As a result of this experience, Mark wanted to know how honest Americans were. He then conducted a controlled wallet dropping experiment. The…
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IKEA Runs Experiment Asking People To Bully a Plant For 30 Days, And The Results Are Eyeopening
Bully a plant, a live experiment with two IKEA plants and with thousands of children, to help to raise awareness around Anti-Bullying Day on 4th May in the Middle East. The live experiment involved IKEA taking two of its very own plants and installing them at the school, where one plant was fed compliments and…
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Artist Creates 20 Illustrations on 20 Different Drugs to See What Would Happen
We’ve seen this concept a few times now (see HERE and HERE), but the results are nonetheless interesting. On this occasion, graphic designer Brian Pollett the “Pixel-Pusha” dosed himself up on a new drug every day for twenty days and created a work of art. According to Brian, he “wanted to create opportunities to educate, whether related to…
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Artist Draws Herself On Drugs to Show How it Affects Your Brain
We’ve previously written about artists who have experimented with the effect drugs have on their work (see HERE). User whatafinethrowaway, inspired by the “Nine Drawings” series which was the result of an experiment by the US government in the 1950’s, asked her friend to draw self-portraits while on LSD. The friend took 200µg of LSD and…
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Artist Conducts Experiment Where he Draws Himself While on Different Drugs and Alcohol
Art, drugs and alcohol have gone hand in hand for centuries. Van Gogh was an avid Absinthe drinker and was known to finish a long day by taking a seat on a terrace with glass in hand, absinthe and brandy following each other in quick succession. Toulouse-Lautrec and Degas were also fans of the aquamarine…