It was July 3rd and I was returning home from a business trip. My flight was late getting in and I was beyond ready to be done with the traveling. I left the Kansas City Airport parking lot to begin …
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A police officer drove by two teenagers. One was playing with a dead battery, the other some fireworks…
Continue ReadingMy family loves going to watch fireworks on the Fourth of July. Who doesn’t? And our friends at ByteSize Science have a new video explaining how all those different colors are produced. (Did you know they put in extra stuff …
Continue ReadingOne Fourth of July tradition we never miss in my house is Fireworks Ice Cream. (We rarely miss anything that involves ice cream, but I digress.) This amazing concoction has a base of vanilla ice cream and cherry swirl. But …
Continue ReadingIt was July 3rd and I was returning home from a business trip. My flight was late getting in and I was beyond ready to be done with the traveling. I left the Kansas City Airport parking lot to begin …
Continue ReadingHello my name is Sarah, and I’m a British citizen. For years I had mixed feelings about celebrating the Fourth of July with my American boyfriend/fiance/husband. Thinking it would be disrespectful of me, to both countries, to celebrate, I would go back and forth between abstaining and reveling. I would think “It’s not my holiday;” but then […]
Continue ReadingIt’s the 4th of July and in addition to mutant hordes roaming suburban backyards looking for an angry fix of grilled flesh, that means explosives. When I was young, we went to Seattle’s Gasworks Park to watch the fireworks and …
Continue ReadingLike a large percentage of Americans, my family and I went to see fireworks for Independence Day. I love the fireworks, and every year that I go I try to take pictures of them with my decent point-and-shoot Canon. And …
Continue ReadingBytesize Science Presents: The Chemistry of Fireworks from ACS Pressroom on Vimeo. My family loves going to watch fireworks on the Fourth of July. Who doesn’t? And our friends at ByteSize Science have a new video explaining how all those …
Continue ReadingOne Fourth of July tradition we never miss in my house is Fireworks Ice Cream. (We rarely miss anything that involves ice cream, but I digress.) This amazing concoction has a base of vanilla ice cream and cherry swirl. But …
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