Product Description

Do try these at home! Each experiment lists ingredients, methods, outcomes - and warnings...It is illustrated to show you the results. It includes scientific explanations (giving you a handy list of excuses!)."Wholly Irresponsible Experiments" offers a chance to remember the fun of being twelve. Scores of experiments show you how to create a dazzling array of explosions, geysers, fireballs and impacts. Amaze your friends with: an exploding jack o'lantern, the ultimate Halloween entertainment; a smoke bomb worthy of Harry Potter; a 15 metre high cola fountain, perfect for turning your enemies into a sticky mess; and, a dramatic fireball - from a very ordinary balloon. And if you feel a little guilty about all this mayhem, the book includes some handy scientific 'excuses'. The child screeching across the room propelled by a fire extinguisher is, after all, demonstrating Newton's Third Law of Motion. That bit of King Edward potato launched from a tube and ricocheting around the kitchen - simple: Boyle's Law! Irresponsible - maybe. Cracking fun - definitely!

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #231315 in Books
• Published on: 2007-06-07
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 208 pages

Review
"'That's the trouble with the real world. Too many people grow up. They forget. They don't remember what it's like to be twelve years old.' Walt Disney"

Guardian
'This imaginative book is crammed with awe-inspiring experiments
designed to demonstrate the magic of science'

Sunday Express
'Hours of fun ... a marvellous way to excite children about the
wonders of science'

Customer Reviews

Good fun and painless education
If you've ever been at the end of 'dodgy' happenings - from family, friends or Neighbours - you'll love this book. Much of the fun lies in trying to decide what to take with a pinch of salt but I concluded that the more hilarious/improbable, the more likely to be the genuine article. Buy it for Father's Day and you'll have a friend for life.

good fun
I was impressed by the real sense of fun running through the whole book. It would be ideal for parents stuck with the kids on a rainy day - and particularly appealing to fathers, I suspect - especially if someone else was going to tidy up the kitchen afterwards.

There's some inspirational science here, but in our house it sparked a series of "why" and "how " questions that sent us heading for the science textbooks!

Our youngest son was particularly taken with the gooey experiments - some lovely photos of sticky fingers to remember out experiments.

Hope you enjoy it as much as we did.

Great fun
While the "irresponsibility" of the stuff in this book pretty much extends to the amount of time I've wasted on it and not to any real dangerous activity it might encourage, it's still enormous fun!! Great present for Father's Day.