Unwrapping the Science Behind the Festive Season
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The article explores fun ways to incorporate science into Christmas celebrations, including taste experiments to demonstrate the role of smell, social experiments on laughter, dissecting poultry to understand biomechanics, making ice cream through salt and ice, and estimating pi using pine needles, all aimed at engaging family and friends with scientific concepts during the holidays.
Topics:world#christmas#festive-chemistry#flavour-perception#laughter-social-influence#science-and-education#science-experiments
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