The list for March 5, 1997
The Top 15 Losing Science Fair Projects

  1. Home Cold Fusion Reactor made with Pepsi and a Tampon

  2. The Hoover Electrolux 3000 – Nature’s Vacuum

  3. The Amazing, Incredible, Stupendous, Real Live Chia Clone

  4. Sound Dampening Principles: Snagging the Car Without Waking Up the Parental Units

  5. Cloning Cheerleaders: Improving Poindexter’s Chances of Getting a Date for the Prom

  6. Using the Internet to Investigate Teachers’ Private Lives

  7. Energizer Bunny Autopsy – Dissecting the Pink Menace

  8. Exploring the Flame-Retardent Aspects of Principal Barnes’ Toupee

  9. The Use of Marijuana for Glaucoma Prevention Among High Schoolers

  10. Beans: Magical, Menacing or Merely Musical?

  11. Backseat Cloning: Three Steps to Knocking up Debbie Sanders

  12. Tic Tacs or Mentos? Hiding Vodka Breath

  13. Qualitative Analysis of Acme Products And Their Effects On The Laws of Cartoon Quantum Mechanics

  14. Uranus: Mighty Gas Giant!
And the Number 1 Losing Science Fair Project…

  1. Repetitive Sound-Induced Violence, Non-Spontaneous Human Combustion & the Disappearance of Billy Ray Cyrus
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CREDITS
Selected from 117 submissions from 46 contributors.
Today’s list authors were:

  • John Voigt, Chicago, IL — 1 (7th #1)
  • Mitch Patterson, Atlanta, GA — 2
  • Paul Paternoster, Redwood City, CA — 3, 9
  • Christopher Troise, New York, NY — 4, 12
  • Don Horton, Sacramento, CA — 5
  • David W. James, Los Angeles, CA — 6
  • Ed Smith, Chattanooga, TN — 7
  • Bob Mader, Knoxville TN — 8
  • Jennifer Hart, Arlington, VA — 10
  • Bruce Ansley, Baltimore, MD — 11
  • Peg Warner, Derry, NH — 13
  • Meredith Ogden, Ithaca, NY — 14
  • Jeffrey House, Detroit, MI — 15
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