Randomised Friday 13th November 2009 Issue 36
It’s Randomised time. This week is Chemistry Week so brush up your knowledge of chemical symbols: www.freerice.com Click on "subjects" then either "Chemical symbols (Basic)" or "Chemical symbols (Full list)". For every correct answer, 10 grains of rice are sent to the third world.
- Gear Giveaway - Indicatears
- Over 2U! - Blubber Glove
- Winners - Glow-in-the-dark skeleton balloons
- Rib Busters - Bad jokes (and we mean really bad)
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1. Gear Giveaway - You’ve got to be in it to win it...
Ideal for busy shopping areas and crowded streets, the Indicatears fit behind the ears and are then activated via a belt/shirt clip attachment to signal your intention to turn left or right. Ridiculous fun! Just the job for these dark mornings on the way to school.
And we have TWO to give away!
To win one, send us an email with your name and address, and the words
“INDICATEARS’ in the subject line, to randomised.news@nesta.org.uk The draw will take place at 5pm on Wednesday 25 November.
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2. Gear Giveaway - You’ve got to be in it to win it...
Blubber Glove
What you need
1. Four waterproof plastic bags, big enough to get your hand in, eg freezer bags. (Or you can use rubber/latex gloves, check no-one’s allergic though.)
2. Parcel tape
3. A big bowl of ice and water - good and ch-ch-chilly
4. A few packs of solid vegetable fat, at room temperature
5. A spoon (unless you really want to get your hands dirty!)
What you do
1. Cut the tops off two of the plastic bags if they have any handles or flaps and place one inside the other.
2. Start to fill the gap between the bags with vegetable fat. Mmmmmn - nice!
3. Once the gap is filled with about 2cm of fat all around, seal the gap between the bags with parcel tape leaving the inner bag open so you put your hand in it. You've now made your blubber glove.
4. Put one hand inside the blubber glove. Squodge the fat around as necessary so as to cover your hand completely.
5. Put your other hand inside the two other plastic bags. Now dip both hands into the icy water. Which one do you have to pull out first? Don't leave either in there too long as they will start to hurt!
What’s going on?
You should notice that you can keep your blubber-gloved hand in the bowl of ice much longer than the hand protected only by the plastic bags. This is because the fat acts as an insulator, keeping the heat inside and not letting it pass through to the icy water. In the wild, many sea animals have a thick layer of blubber to protect them from the cold.
This activity came from the Blubber Glove activity on the Planet SciCast site
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3. Winners - Has your name been picked out of the bag?
Last time we were giving away TWO packs of glow-in-the-dark skeleton balloons.
The lucky winners are Eloise Pontefract from Malmesbury and Rhiannon White from Andover.
Well done and happy glowing!
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4. Rib-Busters - Some jokes we’ve dug up...
What sort of food can you get in a pub run by sheep?
Baaaa meals
What do you call well repaired holes in socks?
Darned good.
What do you call a failed lion tamer?
Claude Butt
What do pussy cats read with their mice crispies?
Mewspapers
THAT’S ALL FOR NOW
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Bye for now!
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