Get Your Hands Dirty With Fluorescent Magic Mud
In elementary school, it’s very likely you made magic mud. You probably did it with your classmates and a lot of juice. Luckily, you can now do the same science experiment, but with a gin and tonic or whiskey. You could even combine the previous experiment and do two-for-one. Grab some potatoes, a food processor, strainer, tonic water, and two bowls. Chop the potatoes into small pieces and cover them with hot water in a bowl. After a few minutes, strain the potato bits from the water and keep the white layer. That white part is the stuff you want, and it looks a lot like milk.
If you mix it around, you’ll notice it acts as both a solid and a liquid. Strange, right? Let that stuff sit around for two days, until it turns into a white powder. Grab the tonic and pour it onto the white powder to turn it into magic mud. As we’ve learned, the quinine in tonic is fluorescent under a black light, so you’ll not only have magic mud, but you’ll have fluorescent magic mud. How fun does that sound? You can roll it around, and it feels a lot like pizza dough. Interestingly, the moment you stop rolling it around, it turns into liquidy goo. It could even double as a stress ball that melts when you stop moving it around (YouTube).
