For the avid gardeners out there, have you ever wondered how to keep your plants alive and well during that long summer holiday in JB or other places abroad? Well, you can carry the pots to your porch or balcony and hope that it will rain regularly. But why leave the fate of your fancy plants to chance when you can easily whip up a simple contraption to water your plants while you are away?

Requirements:

A potted plant - plastic pot with holes in the bottom

2 saucers/trays, one about the diameter of the base of the pot, and another one about 2 cm larger in diameter as compared to the smaller one.

Some absorbent thread, e.g. cotton twine

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Here’s a special piece of artwork that will make you go ‘wow’:

You may wonder, weren’t those liquid they had there? How could it acted as though it could move on its own will, solidified and formed spikes around those drill-like constructions? Quite a show-offish liquid we have here!

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Have you ever seen a screaming balloon? Watch this:

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# Four friends have been doing really well in their calculus class: they have been getting top grades for their homework and on the midterm. So, when it’s time for the final, they decide not to study on the weekend before, but to drive to another friend’s birthday party in another city - even though the exam is scheduled for Monday morning.

As it happens, they drink too much at the party, and on Monday morning, they are all hung over and oversleep. When they finally arrive on campus, the exam is already over. 
They go to the professor’s office and offer him an explanation: “We went to our friend’s birthday party, and when we were driving back home very early on Monday morning, we suddenly had a flat tire. We had no spare one, and since we were driving on backroads, it took hours until we got help.” 
The professor nods sympathetically and says: “I see that it was not your fault. I will allow you to make up for the missed exam tomorrow morning.”

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It’s football fever everywhere around the world! 32 teams, 64 matches to expect, and not to mention the unpredictable upsets (France held back 0-0 by Uruguay, England held back 1-1 by US.. I do expect more to come) What more the arguably expensive subscription fees for the matches charged by the 2 leading Singapore telcos. Surely, soccer is a thriving business, no?

Whether you aspire to be a professional football (or as the Americans say it: soccer) player, or the soccer ball manufacturer, you ought to know your physics. Don’t believe me? Then watch this video on how Adidas manufacture its Jabulani, the official FIFA World Cup 2010 soccer ball.

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