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Feedback is our weekly column of bizarre stories, implausible advertising claims, confusing instructions and more
Who could like weird science?
WHAT products, Feedback asked, “might contain, and proudly proclaim, ‘weird science’?” Opening a message from Brian Burbage, we realised we’d rather set ourselves a trap. The term “weird science”, he writes, “could be used to describe a promotional campaign utilised by a new weekly publication that I remember from my youth”. The weird science in question was demonstrated by “Silly Putty”. This wonder of materials science – specifically that of silicone polymers – bounces when dropped but shatters when hit with a hammer. Left alone long enough, it forms…
