I've just finished my first month at the the Royal Institution where I've been helping with a new online project, which will hopefully be knocking everyone's socks off once it goes live. So watch this space. Today I popped into the lecture theatre to watch Professor Chris Bishop as he prepared for his upcoming 'Science of Fireworks' public lecture - this mainly involved blowing up balloons containing varying amounts of hydrogen. This produced a couple of rib rattling explosions like this... (obviously all in the name of science).
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cwp36jqeXsM&w=420&h=315]