Boing Boing Video teams up with PopSci and Theo Gray to bring you today’s episode — in which the MAD SCIENCE author shows you how to make delicious mercury-sicles shaped like fishies and turtles!
Okay, okay, you’re not supposed to eat them at all. In fact, the safety precautions in the production of this episode were probably more extreme than in any video we’ve ever published, because even the tiniest amount of mercury is incredibly toxic to humans.
I don’t want to spoil the surprise here, so — hop on over to PopSci.com for the whole story on this dangerous but beautiful experiment in how to work with mercury as a solid: Frozen on Video: Theo Gray Sculpts in Solid Mercury, with Some Help from Liquid Nitrogen.
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- BB Video: The Flaming Bacon Lance of Death, from Theo Gray’s book “Mad Science”
- Mad Science: Experiments You Can Do at Home, But Probably Shouldn …
- Lovely Steampunk-esque Science Teaching Instruments. – Boing Boing
- Periodic Table Printmaking Project – Boing Boing
- Photographic Periodic Table of Elements Cards, Puzzles, Personalized Posters
- Periodic table rendered in photos, and in wood