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Joshua Rosenau spends his days defending the teaching of evolution at the National Center for Science Education. He is also a graduate student at the University of Kansas, completing a doctorate in the department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology. When not modeling species distributions or battling creationists, he writes about developments in progressive politics and the sciences.
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Posted on: September 8, 2006 10:18 AM, by Josh Rosenau
That's how rubidium and cesium are described in this video about the explosive consequences of mixing alkali metals and water.
Gotta love the Brits. See also the competition between thermite and liquid nitrogen. Round two matches the winner against a Peugeot engine, and then the car's gas tank.
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...Aaaand it's a fake. See here Theodore Gray's page for details.
Posted by: Michael Porter | September 8, 2006 5:58 PM
Damn. I wondered how those glass ampules were opening in the bathtubs, and that pretty much answers it. I suppose I should turn this into an entry for Skeptics' Circle.
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