Theo Gray's Mad Science: Experiments You Can Do at Home, But Probably Shouldn't, published by Black Dog in 2009, collected Gray's Popular Science columns, along with hundreds of photographs, many of which were not published with the original columns. "Gray's encyclopedic knowledge and contagious enthusiasm transport us to deep intellectual realms, while never sacrificing a sense of wonder and, above all, fun.Best-selling author Theodore Gray is back with all-new, spectacular experiments that demonstrate basic principles of chemistry and physics in thrilling, and memorable ways.įor nearly a decade, Theodore Gray has been demonstrating basic principles of chemistry and physics through exciting, sometimes daredevil experiments that he executes, photographs, and writes about for his monthly Popular Science column "Gray Matter." Here too are a tinfoil boat floating on an invisible sea of gas, a lance made of bacon that's hot enough to cut metal, a smart-phone charger made from apples and pennies, and the eight-step transformation of Pepto Bismol tablets into a ball of metal. In these dramatic, enlightening, sometimes daring (and always beautifully photographed) science lessons, Theodore Gray dips his hand into liquid nitrogen and his finger into molten lead to explain the Leidenfrost effect, crushes a tomato between two small neodymium-iron-boron magnets to show their extreme attraction, and creates (temporary) trinkets out of solid mercury to discuss states of matter. The author of The Elements and the "Gray Matter" column at Popular Science here follows up Theo Gray's Mad Science: Experiments You Can Do at Home, But Probably Shouldn't with a second collection of wildly entertaining practical demonstrations.
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