Elusive Red Tiger
So I just found out something that I am going to have to try soon. Apparently if you pull duct tape apart quickly in the dark, it turns blue. This is an example of triboluminescence, which is a glow given off when certain materials are under mechanical stress or friction. I haven’t tried this yet,…
In the 1940s, Vesta Stoudt, an employee at an ammunition packing plant in Illinois and a mother with two boys in the Navy, wrote a letter to president Franklin D. Roosevelt suggesting that ammunition cases be sealed with a “strong cloth tape.” The U.S. military then asked Johnson & Johnson to create a waterproof, cloth-based…
I got a new crafty toy for Christmas that I want to tell you about. The Siizix Vintaj Bigkick Embossing and Shape-Cutting Machine. You can use it to emboss and etch designs into metal blanks to make fun jewelry. I don’t have any of the metal dies yet but you can also use it on…