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Re: Science moment for big dinner
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The difficulty with this one is not letting people drop their hands when grabbing...I learned to have the grabbers put the arm that grabs on a table so they couldn't try to follow the dollar downwards.

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Yes, this is excellent.  It was a betting game I learned as a kid.  
People can't believe they can't catch it and insist on trying again and 
again.  I learned it that if they caught the dollar they got to keep it, 
but if they missed they had to pay a quarter.  Consistently profitable.

I believe we made it more "challenging" by making the other person keep 
their fingers nearer the middle of the bill instead of the end, like 
over the pyramid - but we just kept it flat....

Have fun!

- Lorne

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On 10/11/2012 2:16 PM, Ian Russell wrote:
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> Trust me, this is such a sensational way to generate social interaction that there'll be difficulty calming everything down afterwards. But you need to practise first.
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> Demonstrate with a volunteer. Take a temptingly valuable banknote and crease it lengthways to straighten it. Hold it lightly between your fingers, drop it and catch it between finger and thumb of your other hand.
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> Now challenge your volunteer to catch it. The rule is that her/his fingers must be level with the bottom of the bill.
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> When you drop it, release your hold so gradually that the bill slips out and falls unpredictably without your fingers visibly moving. If you do it right, there's no way your volunteer will react fast enough to catch it.
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> Now challenge your audience to get their own money out, pair up and try it themselves.
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> Warning. This game is addictive.
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> On 11 Oct 2012, at 17:15, Eric Siegel<[log in to unmask]>  wrote:
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>> Hello, all:
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>> Every year during our gala we have a science moment, a five minute (ten tops) activity that 500 moderately inebriated and distracted people can undertake at their table with minimal instruction from the person standing at the podium.  That person would be...me.
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>> We have done fine with this for the past several years, but as part of my research I am looking to the ASTC hive mind for ideas.  I know, I should have a whole repertoire of these things in my back pocket, but I am no Eddie Goldstein or Steve Spangler.  So I am cheating by asking my friends and colleagues...
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>> Anything cool you have seen or done in similar settings?
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>> See some of you at ASTC!
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