Kuya Kim the Magician? Or Kuya Kim the Mad Scientist?

How about a bit of both and a whole lot of Matanglawin?

And this time around, he’s got Plasmic Patrick and Kinetic Kerwin from Mad Science to back him up!

Discover science in a way you’ve never encountered it before: through mind-blowing experiments and tricks that seem like magic. Believe your eyes because you can actually do some of these experiments right at home or in school. Who would have thought science could be this cool?

Two brothers in Canada named Ariel and Ron Shlien obviously did, and way back in 1990, they made a group called Mad Science.

Their goal? To make science not only educational, but entertaining, too. Flash forward to the present and around 29 countries have a Mad Science franchise.

From fireballs out of baking soda to a powder called sodium polyacrylate that turns water instantly into gel, Kuya Kim will explain how these “magic tricks” work.

Kuya Kim even pierces a balloon with a bamboo barbecue stick without popping it. The secret? Petroleum jelly rubbed on the stick to lessen the friction against the rubber balloon.

Now, how is rubbing a balloon similar to lightning?

Both have static electricity, and this type of electricity made Kuya Kim’s hair stand on end when he touched the Van de Graaff machine.

But if you’re looking for more electrical wonders, the plasma sphere looks like a lightning show inside a glass globe with different gases inside.

Household materials become Kuya Kim’s teaching partners as he explains how car engines work using only methanol and a lighted candle. He even builds a device to show Isaac Newton’s principles of gravity, force and the center of gravity with books, wooden sticks and two funnels attached with electrical tape.

And when it comes to displaying the third law of motion, just watch a rocket balloon go and a seesaw candle rocking back and forth.

Kuya Kim also does the seemingly impossible: peel the shell off a raw egg without breaking it. How did he do it? Just soak the egg in vinegar and let the acetic acid dissolve the calcium carbonate in the shell, leaving you with a rubbery egg membrane.

Psychedelic milk takes center stage when Kuya Kim breaks the surface tension of milk using liquid detergent. He also makes fountains out of vinegar-baking soda and menthol candy-soda combinations; how cool is that?

Chemistry? Physics? With Matanglawin and Mad Science, these aren’t boring at all!