Astronaut ice cream definitely isn’t the stuff sitting in your freezer at home. Though compelling, its name doesn’t quite capture the oddity of unwrapping its small foil packet to reveal a Styrofoam-like substance. For those of us who grew up loving everything about space exploration or perhaps were simply bribed with the staple gift shop […]
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Why Does Burnt Hair Smell So Bad?
In an unfortunate turn of events, you reach over a candle and singe the hair on your arm. Or perhaps your curling iron starts to smoke as it burns a section of the hair on your head (as it did in the case of this young girl, whose hair trouble went viral on YouTube last year). Once […]
What Makes the Sky Blue?
Have you have ever looked up at the sky on a clear, sunny day and wondered what makes the sky blue? Why not purple? Or green? You are not alone in this pondering as the weasel has pondered it as well. Lucky for you, the weasel has done his research. As we know, the sun […]
What Is White Gold?
Movies, magazines, and even Crayola crayons teach us that gold is yellow in color. If that is the case, then what is white gold? What is White Gold? White gold is an alloy of the gold we all know and some kind of white-silvery metal such as nickel, manganese, or palladium. The most frequently used […]