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Originally Posted by Theory5
I dont think many 12 year olds would realize how dangerous it is. And how did you know how to make gun powder at age 12? :-P
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i had abook (Boy's Own?) that had heaps of firecracker recipes. I think it might have been an old book.
Also, I used to play with
dry ice from the Ice-Cream-Man/Van. Blowing corks out of bottles etc
Funny my 'first ever' science experiment was in a new post-Sputnik, government funded laboratory. The teacher boiled water in a can. Screwed the top on and we watched the atmosphere crush the can. The coolest thing i ever saw at school.
These days teachers are too scared to let kids take risks "duty of care" etc becomes stifling. Most interesting chemicals- that do things- are banned from schools.
My kid's first year of science was on the theory and practice of scientific experiments. They were bored stiff. The methodology of all this stuff i didn't tackle until uni. In fact most of my Psy. degree seemed to be taken up with it.
I was amazed when a doctor friend had to stop his Ph. D studies half way though because of his poor experimental design. (What was his supervisor doing?).
God knows how less trained doctors mange to read and evaluate the veracity of medical journal articles. Thank The Lord they have Drug Companies to tell them what to prescribe.
