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Subject: Science in the News
From: inthenews <inthenews@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, March 16, 2007 5:39 am

Today's Headlines - March 16, 2007
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Science with a 'Boom'

from the Baltimore Sun

FELTON, Calif. -- "The Boom" is bouncing around the classroom like an
overgrown kid. With his bushy gray eyebrows and mad scientist's grin,
he's demonstrating the density of methane to 25 rapt teenagers at San
Lorenzo Valley High School. "Again?" gasps one girl.

Explosions are nothing new to Preston Q. Boomer's physics and chemistry
classes. Neither are flash fires, electric shocks, spark-spitting
transformers or deafening gongs, sirens and klaxons. He begins many
lectures with the subversive come-on: "Want to blow something up today?"

It's the Boom's Big Bang Theory of teaching: Noise is fun, even
instructive. But his wacky experiments can go awry. One day the cops
showed up as a result of a half-baked Boomer stunt. The teacher was
testing whether a 1.5-million-volt Tesla coil could shoot a spark across
the room. In the process, he cut off all police radio communications for
miles.

To read more: http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/health/bal-
hs.teacher16mar16,0,2814701.story

Or: http://tinyurl.com/3b7j6a
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