What makes a good paper airplane?
Moment of Um
American Public Media
4.4 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 29 April 2024
⏱️ 7 minutes
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Summary
If you fold a sheet of paper just right, you can create a paper airplane that zooms through the air! But how do you make sure that your plane zooms across a room instead of nose-diving into the couch cushions? What makes a good paper airplane? We asked physics grad student Angie Huerta to help us find the answer.
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| 0:00.0 | Today's episode is sponsored by Green Light. Did you know that 27 states don't require a personal |
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| 0:39.3 | From the brains behind brains on, this is the moment, um. Moment of um, |
| 0:54.0 | uh, uh, uh, |
| 0:55.0 | uh, uh, uh, um, |
| 0:58.0 | uh, |
| 1:00.0 | Um, um, um. |
| 1:02.0 | Moment of Um, um, Moment of Um, come to you from APM Studios. I'm Molly Bloom. |
| 1:06.0 | Today is Monday and every Monday I try to become the best that I can be at something new. |
| 1:15.0 | On Tuesdays I polish my doornob collection and on Wednesdays I make mystery flavor muffins |
| 1:20.9 | but I'm getting off topic. Today I'm trying to perfect my paper airplane |
| 1:25.6 | folding technique. I've got some scrap paper here from last Monday's |
| 1:29.0 | haiku writing practice and I'm working on nice crisp folds. |
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