[TheRaisin]

Ooh, thanks Teal, I do believe I'll try that.

Ant farm! I can't believe I forgot about that. Along with seamonkeys, another classic childhood "sciency" thing. Ant farms are so cool. Did anyone else ever have an ant farm?

I've had a lot of science teachers who didn't focus so much on science as they did cool things you can do that somehow seem to have something to do with science apparently in some way. I'll never forget the time I took a summer science class and the teacher had like a bucket of soapy water and some sort of flammable gas, and he put a tube from the gas tank into the water and made this huge bubble, like a foot in diameter, and he took it and sort of tossed it up and it floated to the ceiling and stuck there. Then we lit a match and taped it to the end of a meter stick and lit the bubble on fire. And there was like this huge red wave of fire that spread out across the ceiling like a ripple in water. And it disappeared within a second and didn't leave a trace of ever having been there. That was great.