When I was in high school, my 11th grade science teacher challenged us for extra credit to explain how the drinking bird worked. My stepmother was a teacher at another school so she hooked me up with their science teachers. Three of them could not explain this toy. The closest they came was Boyle's law. I never got that extra credit, and no one else did either. Damn bird.

These toys didn't work well in Houston in the summer, this is a *quality explanation of the *science involved

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Just because he said thermodynamics at the start, it reminded me of a story my friend told me, while he was in university taking engineering.

One day a prof was lecturing about thermodynamics and he accidentally said thermogoddammits and the class just lost it and the prof turned red. They used the word thermogoddammits for the rest of the semester, much to the consternation of the prof.

"The reason the bird drinks whisky faster than water is because the rate of evaporation is greater. "

Yeah, nice excuse bird.