"Lamprey are falling from the sky for no apparent reason," Ben announced, "unless one of you have been throwing explosives into the ocean for fun ( Read more... )

Another day, another chance for Ben to blow his eyebrows off in the name of science ( Read more... )

Today the class was meeting on the beach because Ben and Barry should not be allowed to talk together. Awesome, awesome science happened that way ( Read more... )

"Okay," Ben said, looking out the window at the thunderstorm clouds building up, "today's not exactly as hot as I was planning for when I decided to do this, but I've also never found a day it was too cold to eat ice cream in, so I'm sure it'll be fine ( Read more... )

"Hey," Ben said, looking up from where he was shoving a few thousand ping pong balls into a garbage bag. "Today we're going to have some fun with liquid nitrogen."

If you haven't figured out "and also explosions" was implied yet, you haven't really been paying attention to Ben's teaching style.

He went into a detailed explanation about liquid ( Read more... )

Ben greeted is class with goggles shoved up onto his hair and an eager grin on his face. "Today we're going to play with thermite because it's a really astral explosion ( Read more... )

"Hey," Ben said, shoving his safety goggles up onto the top of his head and turning to face his students. "This is Better Living Through Chemistry and I'm Ben Skywalker. Tomorrow's a major holiday on this planet that involves explosives, and so I'm gonna show you how to make fireworks today ( Read more... )

"Guess what, boys and girls," James said. "You're getting a final." That probably should have been obvious from the fact that they were in the Danger Shop, but whatever. "Thought you'd get away with a movie day? Fat chance. This is gonna be fun. For me, at least ( Read more... )

"Last class! Final next week! You know what that means," James said. "We're watching one of the last episodes of whatsitsface. Beloved characters die! Babies cry! Everyone's unhappy! And you get no Kleenex to deal with any tears you might have. It's to toughen you up for the future, I swear ( Read more... )

When you walked into the lab today, you might wonder why exactly there were a whole bunch of balloons floating around with small weights tied to strings to keep them from floating all the way to the ceiling. Don't worry, there was a good reason for them ( Read more... )