Fun for Friday: Weird (and Spooky) October Science
A ceramic pumpkin I’ve had since I was four!
Time for more weird science to inspire your writing or maybe just pique your curiosity! With this month being October, I thought it might be fun to focus more on spooky science, and the internet provided!
The U.S. Department of Energy has a list celebrating spooky science from last October, which gives some brief summaries of some spooky science. The University of Texas at Austin’s College of Natural Sciences also compiled a list last October of some of the spooky research going on in their College.
There are also a ton of spooky science experiments that you could do with kids (or as an adult–science experiments for kids are good for all ages!) or that might be the seed of inspiration for a story in which the experiment goes in a different way than expected! Little Bins, Little Hands has 31 spooky experiments; We Are Teachers has a list of 30; and Science Buddies has 24! There’s overlap between those lists, of course, but you can mix and match to find the list you like best!
I was also delighted to learn that a lot of museums host “spooky science” events on or near Halloween. These, however, are all quite local, so I recommend looking up spooky science with your location to see if there’s one near you!
Even if you don’t write science fiction, there’s plenty of fodder here for other speculative fiction or even literary fiction or poetry!
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