http://www.cockeyed.com/ is one of my favorite websites. Rob Cockerham has been posting stories since 1997. His offbeat humor and unusual circle of friends are interesting, but what I find most interesting are the "How much is inside? adventures" and the "Science club episodes". In "how much is inside?" Rob and friends try to determine how much there is of a certain item or substance, for example in one episode they figure out how much of a package of oreos is cookie and how much is creamy filling by physically separating the two substances and measuring them. In another episode Rob determined there is approx. 2.87 meters of toothpaste in a 6 oz. tube of Ultra Brite toothpaste by squeezing the tube out across his floor.
The great thing about cockeyed.com is that Rob is able to shoehorn fun and silliness in with scientific data collection and a genuine curiosity about the world. If only high school science class had been this fun.
http://www.cockeyed.com/
Wednesday, March 19, 2008
Cockeyed Science?
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