You can find more from all of today’s “Life.Style.Live!” guests at the links below:
Chef Amy – A Cut Above Catering
Motor
Kathyrn Emery
KJ Today
Men’s Health Survey
Rick Crosslin
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“Life.Style.Live!” resident scientist Rick Crosslin, admits he can only cook one dish, Bananas Foster. He joined us today to talk a little science and a little dessert as he whips up this classic dish.
For more from Crosslin visit, youtube.com/channel/UCTUaGjswflD3xO4rzZ5KSeQ.
You can find more from all of today’s “Life.Style.Live!” guests at the links below:
Jason Michael Thomas – Urban Awareness Gardens
Best of Fest – Heartland Film
Rick Crosslin – Science Guy
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Fur-Ever Friends from Hensley Legal Group
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Red Carpet Beauty Secrets
All mammals share the trait of having hair on their body, from seals to bears.
For them, it can provide warmth, protection, camouflage, spread scent, help with self-defense and serve as a sensory gland.
Those are just a few of the fun facts about hair we learned from Rick Crosslin, MSD Wayne Township Scientist in Residences, today as he explained the science behind hair, which is also known as Trichology.
Interesting Hair Facts:
- We are covered in 6,000,000 hair follicles
- 1,000,000 are on our head
- We have a body covered in hair
- Hair grows about 1/2 inch a month
- Hair has different growth periods – that are staggered
- The hair shaft has three parts – color of hair found in the inner two parts
- Anthropologists have worked on what caused us to lose most of our abundant hair as we moved out of the Savannahs
- Anthropologists have studied why we still retain hair under our armpits and in our pubic area, which is to reduce friction and to spread odors and pheromones
- Our hair thins as we age. This is part of our genetics and we do not get new follicles.
- As our skull grows larger our hair is spread out
- Guinness World Records for longest hair 5.9m and 5.62m
For more from Crosslin visit, youtube.com/channel/UCTUaGjswflD3xO4rzZ5KSeQ.
The latest experiment from Rick Crosslin, MSD Wayne Township Scientist in Residence, appears to be toothpaste fit for an elephant, but in reality, it’s a giant foaming reaction using chemical elements.
With just a few ingredients you can make something that looks like foamy toothpaste being squeezed from a tube, but so big that it looks sized for an elephant!
Each tiny foam bubble is filled with oxygen. The yeast acted as a catalyst; a catalyst is used to speed up a reaction.
The elephant toothpaste demo is one of the most popular chemistry demonstrations, in which a steaming tube of foam keeps erupting from its container, resembling a smooshed tube of elephant-sized toothpaste. The classic demo uses 30% hydrogen peroxide, which is not safe for kids, but there is a safe version of this demonstration that is still very cool.
For more information visit, youtube.com/channel/UCTUaGjswflD3xO4rzZ5KSeQ.
Scientist Rick Crosslin joined us today with a fun lesson on limestone, which is a famous Indiana natural resource recognized around the world as a valuable building and sculpting material.
Here are some more detailed lessons/videos:
Rick Crosslin Indiana Expeditions – Limestone
Indiana Limestone
Limestone Model
Salamanders are amphibians that are best known for their lizard-like appearance
Today we got to meet a couple of them and learn a few interesting facts about these interesting creatures, including the fact that their limbs can grow back if lost.
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Looking for something fun to do with the kids over the holiday break?
Rick Crosslin, scientist in residence at MSD Wayne Township joined us today with a few holiday-related experiments!
He says old LED and incandescent Christmas lights are a perfect tool to explore electric circuits.
Crosslin also demonstrated how to make a simple circuit light-up Christmas card using a battery and old lights.
Supplies Needed:
- Tape
- Aluminum foil
- Batteries (most lights are 3.4 volts and most batteries are 1.5 volts, so we need a few batteries.)
- Christmas tree lights.
For a more detailed experiment on simple electric circuits click here.
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As the holidays approach many families are gathering around the kitchen for the preparation of the family feast. This is a perfect time and opportunity to do some “kitchen science” with everyone.
Rick Crosslin, scientist in Residence at MSD Wayne Township, joined us today with five different activities you can do with the ingredients that are typically found during the preparation of the Thanksgiving meal.
Maka a Gas: Vinegar, Baking Soda, plastic Baggie
Make a Balloon Rocket: Alka Seltzer, bottle, water, balloon
Oobleck – Non-Newtonian Fluid: Cornstarch, bowl, water
Yeast Grows!: Bread, yeast, bottles, warm water, sugar
Sweet Potato Fun: Sweet potato, potato, jar, toothpicks
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What happens to this pickle may be shocking!
Rick Crosslin, scientist in residence at MSD Wayne Township joined us today with two spooky experiments.
First, he showed how electricity can flow through a pickle, causing it to light up using the Thomas Edison Filament.
Then he showed how the decomposition of hydrogen peroxide makes a giant cloud of smoke come out of a bottle. He says, this is the same technique used in “I Dream of Jeannie” when she pops out of the bottle.
You can see Rick Crosslin and Keith Ramsey, MSD Wayne Township science teacher, at Conner Prairie this weekend presenting dozens of spooky experiments like this!
It’s happening on Saturday, October 30 from 6:15 p.m. and 7:45 p.m.
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