Theo Gray is a columnist at Popular Science (a magazine I loved to read as a child). This website features a collection of experiments that you “can do at home, but probably shouldn’t.”
Science experiments with Theo Gray
- Post author:Erich Vieth
- Post published:February 5, 2011
- Post category:Science
- Post comments:3 Comments
Erich Vieth
Erich Vieth is an attorney focusing on civil rights (including First Amendment), consumer law litigation and appellate practice. At this website often writes about censorship, corporate news media corruption and cognitive science. He is also a working musician, artist and a writer, having founded Dangerous Intersection in 2006. Erich lives in St. Louis, Missouri with his two daughters.
I just KNOW that Dan Klarman will have some comments on these experiements. He probably actually does these sorts of things at home.
I already posted about the time I went to go meet the man because of this post: MrTitanium with a Lead Pipe on the Patio in this post: Gray Matter at Wolfram Research
I had determined at the time to make my own Homemade Titanium, as he did, and even obtained some of the harder to get ingredients for the thermite reaction. But I got distracted.
I first found Theo online via his Periodic Table Table that is now in his office at Wolfram Research.
I am currently reading Uncle Tungsten: Memories of a Chemical Boyhood by Oliver Sacks. In it he reminisces about the chemistry experiments he did as a young boy, using then-over-the-counter ingredients that are now hard to even get permission to obtain, like phosphorous, mercury, tellurium, uranium, and so on.
Sure, Sacks smoked the family out of the house a time or two. But his parents were quite forgiving, in the name of scientific curiosity.