How to Create Fire From a Pair of Eyeglasses
The Gist
Story #1: Ex-Talking Heads singer David Byrne is transforming a building into a musical instrument! Read more here
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Story #2: 570,000 cigarette-selling vending machines in Japan are being prepared to identify underage smokers by counting wrinkles on their faces! Read more here.
Story #3: Three teenagers in a small town north of Houston were arrested for using a skull as a bong! Read more here.
Rad Science: The Science of Eyeglasses and Fire
Learn more about the how eyeglasses create fire and other totally rad science on Dr. Kiki's blog.
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Remix: Transform an empty bottle into a fancy mood lamp
Materials:
1. Empty bottle (ex: wine bottle)
2. LED push light
3. 9 - 10 Cardboard of cork coasters
4. Epoxy glue
5. Knife or Scissors
Directions:
1. Empty the bottle!
2. Trace your LED light on a coaster and cut out a hole, using scissor or knife. Cut enough coasters to cover the height of LED light.
3. Place the cut coasters over 2 or 3 non-cut coasters. Glue it all together.
4. Place the LED light inside the coaster hole.
5. Place your bottle over your LED light.
6. FINISHED!?
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Started discussion: May 19, 2008 @ 12:40pm GMT
Episode 11 - How to Create Fire From a Pair of Eyeglasses
Dr. Kiki creates fire from a pair of glasses, Moujan transforms an empty wine bottle into a lamp and Heather reveals an underground band who hails from Tokyo!
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Advice always keep a flint and steel or blast match with ya at all times never know when ya will need to catch something or someone on fire..
Where's Neha?!?!?!?!?!?!? Did she leave us for Social Brew?
I usually am not caught without a mag flashlight, cotton balls soaked in vaseline, and 9 volt battery and a small bunch of steel wool in my back pack. The mag flashlight has a parabolic mirror which focuses sunlight into one spot. You put your tinder (I prefer char cloth for this part) where the light is focused, thus creating fire. Also, if it's too cloudy to use the sun, touch the 9 volt battery to the steel wool, and this makes an ember that can be used to start fires as well.
I also use hand and bow drills on occasion, but proper materials are a little hard to come by high in the Rockies (at least the areas I mainly hike into).
Hope this helps.
Moujan's still hilarious, and the question remains: When is she getting her own show? :)
Another awesome episode added to the list!
Been listening to them for over a year now.
I highly recommend Now Is The Time, Karate House, and their newest album We Ate The Machine.
I still need to buy Neu though. I can't seem to find it.
Advice always keep a flint and steel or blast match with ya at all times never know when ya will need to catch something or someone on fire..
I always have my trusty Swedish FireSteel ready.
On another note... I think that I
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