Beakman's World Balance, Beakmania & Camouflage (1992– ) Online

Beakman's World Balance, Beakmania & Camouflage (1992– ) Online

After revealing that there are five hundred different species of meat?eating plants, Beakman gets some help from Professor Boring to answer a question about balance. After the professor dryly defines as it "a state of equilibrium or parity characterized by cancellation of all forces by equal opposing forces," Beakman becomes Balance Man, a strange visitor whose mission is to remind us that people and nature must stay in balance. Explaining that it is all about a relationship with gravity, Balance Man uses Lester, Liza and a seesaw to illustrate the center of gravity or balance point. Then, after Liza demonstrates the location of her own balance point and how it moves when she does, Beakman uses some wire, a piece of styrofoam, a cork and two old batteries in a demonstration of his own. In "Beakmania," Beakman reveals that hairs on the head grow for two to five years before falling out; that there is enough iron in the human body to make a rod strong enough to hold your weight; and ...