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STEVE SPANGLER: All right,
it's Thanksgiving.
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This is going to be a very cool
episode, because you are
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going to use common household
items to do amazing things for
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You're going to amaze them.
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[THEME MUSIC PLAYING]
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STEVE SPANGLER: I'm Steve
Spangler, and I'm all about
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making science fun.
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For the last 20 years, I've
been teaching ways to turn
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ordinary science experiments
into unforgettable learning
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I have an amazing team who will
do whatever it takes to
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affect the way people
think about science.
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And to do that, I live
by one motto--
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make it big, do it right,
give it class.
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Just finished that great
Thanksgiving meal.
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So the deal is this-- there's
lots of toothpicks around.
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And if you're like 80 years old,
you know what this is,
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but if you're a little kid you
don't even know why they even
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For science experiments.
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Here's what you're going to do--
you're going to bend some
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toothpicks like this, and you're
going to form them into
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the shape of a star.
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This is what we want our little
project to look like,
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but the toothpicks actually have
to start out on a plate
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like this right here.
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And without touching it, you
turn it from this into this.
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How do you do that?
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Since that last strategy clearly
did not work, we're
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making another one.
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So notice how you break it just
like this, not all the
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This completes a last little
piece right here.
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So the object is to go from
here and to make it
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open up as a star.
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Believe it or not, the
secret is a straw.
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And you're going to put the
straw down in some water, and
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put your finger in the end,
and pick up just a
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little bit of water.
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You don't want much at all--
just a couple drops.
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It goes right into the
middle-- watch.
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It's not that the water just
pushed out the toothpicks, but
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instead the toothpicks
absorbed the water.
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And when it absorbs the water,
the little capillaries that
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