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HAAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! GODAMN THIS PEOPLE ARE FUCKED!!!!!!!!!!! HAHAHAHAHAHHA!!!!!! BUT THIS SHIT MAKES ME LAUGH MY ASS OFF!!!!!!!! HAHAHHAHA!

i think you need shot in the face cearamm

Someone's on the rag...

people like cearamm...i could kick your face in till your brain oozes out the cracks in the side of your head and i wouldent care.

You couldent fuck with these guys, they would kick the fuck out of you and your emo buddies and boyfriends.

it takes a certin person to listen to death metal, no mommy huggin queery boys that listen to a certin type of music to think you are cool.

If you had any intrest in music at all you wouldent even start to judge CC.

volitile responses don't get you anywhere. yes, i like cannibal corpse. yes, i usually listen to something like the Doors or The Beatles before i listen to Corpse or Carcass or other death/grindcore/whatever metal.. yes, i highly dislike emo and 'hardcore' metal. but i still like Cannibal Corpse. Why? i really don't know. i just do, and if i didn't like it, i wouldn't listen to it and i CERTAINLY WOULDN'T BE ON HERE, DISSING PEOPLE WHO LIKE IT. SO SURE, SAY YOU HATE CC IF YOU DO. FREEDOM OF SPEECH AND ALL. AND THEN MOVE ON. DON'T START HUGE ARGUMENTS AND DEFINETLY DON'T INSULT PEOPLE'S SEXUAL IDENTITY, PREFERENCES, AND HABITS. TAKE PUNISHMENT AND WALK ON. GIVE A REASONABLE BIT OF PUNISHMENT AND WALK ON. JEEZ, SOME PEOPLE DON'T KNOW WHEN TO STOP.

shut up. i think 5 posts from me isnt close to the 100s of posts like mine. i like lots of music too you ignorant fool. pink floyd led zepplin, stp, alice in chains, but i love death metal too. your post was compeletly sensless due to the fact that the post that should be critisized here is the ones who misjudge. yes callings omeone gay is misjudgeing, but its also a habbit. where i come from we just do...so shut the fuck up FAG (directed at grungemonky cause hes GAY) lol

wats with all these assholes saying the guys in cc are fucked up?? just b/c they're lyrics are a bit on the disturbing side don't mean they're fucked in the head! i think they're champs for writing this stuff coz they seem like they dont care wat people say about them and just remember people, all the gorey stuff they go on about is made up anyway.

thank you my pms habits are none of your business and shitbomb .. dude he would have to have a brain in order to kick him til it oozes out...curb kick him .. and let me watch =) please?

I disagree, I think the public has a right to know, when n0kturnaldoll gets a visit from aunty flow.

lol .. ah well.. sure why not... ill make sure i announce it next time

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Cannibal Corpse is an American death metal band from Buffalo, New York. Formed in 1988, the band has released twelve studio albums, one box set, and one live album. Throughout the years the band has been established, they have had little radio or television exposure, although a cult following began to build behind the group with the release of albums such as 1991's Butchered at Birth and 1992's Tomb of the Mutilated which both reached over one million in worldwide sales by 2003, including 558,929 in the United States, making them the top-selling death metal band of all time in the US. more »

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Column: What kind of prosecutor was Kamala Harris? The answer could be pivotal to her campaign

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The presidential campaign is shaping up to be a tale of two prosecutors, both named Kamala Harris.

Harris’ record as a tough-on-crime prosecutor was a constant refrain through much of this week’s Democratic National Convention.

On Monday, the convention featured an ad parodying the television series “Law & Order” that asserted, “We need a president who has spent her life prosecuting perpetrators like Donald Trump.” Tuesday’s program was even more blunt, including a five-minute video showcasing Harris as a crusading prosecutor who unflinchingly locked up murderers, rapists and child molesters.

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A series of speakers echoed that theme, touting Harris’ lock-’em-up bona fides. In his headlining speech Tuesday, former President Obama cast Harris, a former San Francisco district attorney and California attorney general, as an uncompromising prosecutor. As with the string of speakers making similar points, Obama focused on red-meat invocations of rapists, child molesters and other sexual predators.

Harris’ experience as a law woman has been the leading theme of her young campaign since she made her debut and rolled out the reliable applause line, “I took on perpetrators of all kinds. … So hear me when I say: I know Donald Trump’s type.”

It all sounds like a vintage campaign for district attorney — and the kind of rhetoric much more frequently deployed by Republicans.

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Yet even as Harris is selling her prosecutorial credentials, the Trump campaign is trotting out a vision of her as feckless and soft on crime — indeed, “one of the worst prosecutors in history,” according to Trump’s characteristically fact-free hyperbole.

This struggle over Harris’ prosecutorial identity is for now the core of the campaign, an unusual feature for a presidential contest. But given Trump’s complete familiarity to supporters and opponents alike, the main variable in the campaign may well be whose vision of Harris prevails.

Trump’s caricature of Harris’ record relies on a series of deceptive and false claims. He has asserted with no basis whatsoever that as district attorney, she “ wouldn’t arrest murderers . She wouldn’t arrest anybody.”

Trump also tells his supporters that Harris “supports mandatory gun confiscation” that would leave Americans “defenseless.” That refers to a mandatory assault weapons buyback program that Harris once supported but no longer does.

On immigration law, Trump’s line is that Harris wanted to give “mass amnesty and citizenship” to “all illegals.” The basis for this claim is her past support for a path to citizenship and amnesty for limited groups such as the so-called Dreamers brought into the country illegally as children.

Or Trump accuses Harris of redefining “child sex trafficking, assault with a deadly weapon and rape of a unconscious person … as nonviolent,” a whopper that apparently refers to a 2016 California voter referendum that enabled early release consideration for those convicted of “nonviolent felonies.”

Trump also argues that Harris “supports abolishing cash bail,” which is in fact true. But his conclusion — “which means bloodthirsty criminals that just killed somebody can immediately leave custody, go out and kill somebody else” — is false. Rather, Harris and others support replacing traditional bail with other standards for detaining violent offenders before trial.

You get the idea: Combine the emotional politics of violent crime with Trump’s indifference to truth, and you get a volatile brew of sensationalist accusations that make the George H.W. Bush campaign’s infamous Willie Horton attack look like beanbag. But as the Horton episode demonstrated, deceptive claims about crime can be sticky.

And Harris has a complicated track record on the subject. When she first ran for president, in 2020, she adopted the identity of a “progressive prosecutor,” more or less the opposite of the portrait the convention painted this week. That drew fire from the left based on her past support of initiatives that might strike progressive voters as overly punitive, especially in the wake of that year’s police killing of George Floyd. She also encountered opposition from police groups based on her long-standing opposition to the death penalty.

Four years later, having suddenly acquired the nomination in the wake of President Biden’s disastrous debate, Harris is no longer shying away from the characterizations that undermined her candidacy with the left as she competed in the crowded 2020 primary.

In fact, Harris’ enthusiastic donning of the mantle of tough prosecutor is of a piece with a broader theme of the convention that likely will carry on into the campaign: the Democrats’ self-conscious effort to reclaim an array of traditional American virtues. The first half of the convention was marked by appeals to a throwback, “ Ozzie and Harriet ” world of Little League games and church socials. Obama put it best in his patent appeal to swing or even Trump voters, saying the majority of the American people “do not want to live in a country that’s bitter and divided.”

Harris is embracing that communitarian vision even as she is presenting herself as a zealous prosecutor of those who would disrupt it. Whether she can maintain that image in the face of Trump’s darker vision may be the central drama of the campaign ahead.

Harry Litman is the host of the “Talking Feds” podcast and the “ Talking San Diego” speaker series. @harrylitman

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'Left-wing radicals.' Name-calling best MAGA Republicans like Jim Renacci can do.

Jim renacci thinks everyone is a left-wing radical .

Re: Jim Renacci's opinion piece August 8 in the Dispatch, "Citizens not politicians a con. Flawed amendment must be rejected."

Just as to a hammer, everything looks like a nail, so apparently to MAGA Republicans, everyone not in step with them is a "left-wing radical." 

I guess when you're so far off center, out of the mainstream of American thinking,the center looks like a left wing. It must be the party line, since they all seem to parrot it ad nauseam.

Is labeling and name-calling the best MAGA Republicans have to offer?

Samantha Willow, Westerville

What about Kamala Harris' bad policies

Here is the other side of two front page articles from our fair and balanced Columbus Dispatch. Ex-president Donald Trump calls Vice President Kamala Harris names.  Trump has been called a threat to democracy and Hitler. Hitler?   

The reason U.S. Sen. JD Vance is discussing Harris' race and 'cat ladies"  is because that is all the mainstream media ask him about. 

What about the issues and the policies she and our lame duck president have supported for 3½ years. What about the liberal policies Kamala has supported since she was a senator: an open border, getting rid of ICE, getting rid of fracking, Medicare for all, and eliminating private insurance. 

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At least Vance attempts to talk about the issues facing our country to the left-wing media. I'll say one thing for Kamala . . . she sure can smile and read a teleprompter .

Stan Fulk, Dublin

I will file attempted murder charges

Re "What does attempted murder mean?" Aug. 7: The reason I would charge people with attempted murder when it involves shooting at a person is to send a message, and because it is the right charge.

If people in Franklin County understood they will get charged with attempted murder if they shoot at someone, it may make a few think twice.

This policy will help deter future shootings as the public hears more about attempted murder, opposed to felonious assault. I also feel prior administrations avoided charging attempted murder to make it look nicer for the public.

If people were hearing the truth, they may take more action as evidenced by a few organizations in Franklin County combating gun violence. Organizations like We Are Linden recognize the danger; now we need a county prosecutor like myself who also recognizes the danger.

We looked at the data. Why isn't attempted murder charged more often in Columbus?

I am not looking to make the public safer by false perception, but by prosecuting crimes that meet certain fact patterns.

John Rutan, candidate Franklin County prosecutor, Columbus

Renacci should meet the dustbin of history

Jim Renacci’s August 8, opinion piece in The Columbus Dispatch regarding redistricting reform would be laughable if it were not so frightening and pathetic. 

Of course, Renacci, a failed career politician wannabe, who has twice been rejected by the voters and his own Republican party, cannot understand Maureen O’Connor could have the interests of the citizens of Ohio at heart during her long and distinguished public service career because he himself cannot conceive of such a thing.

What is, to use his words, “beyond belief,” is the idea that the members of Citizens Not Politicians — who include educators; the League of Women Voters, who encourages voting and participation in the political process; and some Republicans who dare have the audacity at times not to march in lockstep with the party line and support candidates and issues of the Democratic party — would simply be fraudsters in supporting this citizen initiative.

The world has seen people like Renacci and his ilk who embrace one-party rule and unfair elections while stifling voter rights and citizen participation in their own government.

In the past, they have been relegated to the dustbin of history in the evolution of democracy. Let’s hope it happens again in November.

Mahlon Nowland, Worthington

Harris far superior to GOP's an angry old man

I take exception to the August 8, Dispatch opinion column "Harris was an unlikable, ineffective VP; why are we giving her a pass?" by Ingrid Jacques.

Jacques’ main point is a sulky complaint that in the three weeks since being thrust into the spotlight as the Democratic presidential contender, Harris hadn’t taken time to hold a press conference. Maybe she’s been too busy locking up the nomination within her party, selecting a vice-presidential candidate, putting together her campaign team, and developing her own agenda.

Regarding the characterization of Kamala Harris as “an ineffective flop of a vice president," I have a very different view. 

For the first two years of the Biden presidency, with a Senate split 50-50 between Republicans and Democrats, Harris was tethered to the Washington, D.C., area so she could cast the deciding votes on the administration’s major initiatives.

Ingrid Jacques: Kamala Harris seems 'unburdened' by her lackluster past. She can thank the media for that.

With a Democratic Senate majority coming into play in January 2023, Harris was able to successfully take on additional assignments. Following the Supreme Court’s Dobbs decision, she became the administration’s spokesperson on reproductive rights, and her command of the facts is impressive.

Compared to an angry old man, who is seemingly sinking into dementia, the choice is clear.

Vote for Harris-Walz.

Tom Baillieul, Columbus

Vance's "thought experiment" stinks

U.S. Senator and Republican vice presidential nominee J.D. Vance (if that's his real name) was interviewed by ABC's Jonathan Karl regarding his previous support for a “policy proposal” to give extra votes to people with children. Vance stated that this was not a policy proposal but rather a  “thought experiment.”

In my day this so-called "thought experiment" would have been called a "brain fart," a term that could also apply to the Project 2025 document that forms the basis of the MAGA Republican election platform.

Harry Farkas , Columbus

There are solutions to 1-party rule

In the August 4, editorial "1-party rule by Democrats and GOP dominates all corners of Ohio, hurts our democracy," no solutions were proposed for Columbus. But reforms can be made to promote competitive elections in the city.

One way to help would be to ensure that all candidates can appear on television. Shortly before longtime Columbus City Attorney Rick Pfeiffer retired in 2018, he indicated to "Columbus Monthly" that TV exposure is hugely important for successful campaigns. Political consultant Dale Butland likewise told Channel 4 last year: "Television is vital in any campaign . . . "

Under Columbus' present system, candidates backed by big money flood the TV airwaves with political ads. Meanwhile their opponents can't afford to buy ads and have no chance of winning.

Some possible ways to alleviate this problem would be to bring back public access TV so candidates can appear on TV for free; provide public funding for campaigns to enable candidates to buy TV time; broadcast candidate debates and forums on the government TV channel; and encourage the city's commercial TV stations to televise debates.

Other helpful measures would be to lower the number of signatures needed to get on the ballot; and reduce the wealthy's influence over elections by lowering the amounts they can give to campaigns. 

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Also, adding district elections for city council, instead of having all council members elected citywide, would lower the cost of campaigns and enable more people to run.

When six of the nine Columbus City Council races were uncontested last year, and the city's four school board races had no ballot opposition, I emailed council members and the mayor's office to ask how they intend to strengthen democracy in the city. No response was provided. 

As columnist Tom Suddes wrote last year, "competitive elections are the last thing an incumbent of either party wants." This means the media and public must lead in addressing the issue.   

Joseph Sommer, Columbus

Ohio pays prisoners

I did not think the August 12 article, “States move to ban prison “slavery,” was an appropriate article to publish in the Dispatch.

Ohio is not one of those states.

We do not have a problem with prison labor not being compensated here in Ohio.

Ohio pays, as the article says, $2.80 per hour for jobs done by prisoners, which the article says is one of the highest rates in the country. The Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Corrections should get a pat on the back. 

Pay for Ohio prisoners is not mentioned in the article until the eighth paragraph, when many readers by then have already stopped reading and say, here goes the state ripping off prisoners. I also dislike the word “Slavery” in italics. I think it was done for sensationalism. 

Also, I think the article is written for non-paying states. The article is written by an author at Thomas Reuters Foundation, not a Columbus company who knows Ohio or Columbus.

Please check your articles written by outside sources that do not know our state or Columbus history.

Pete Kienle, Powell

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Groundbreaking police drama 'Homicide: Life on the Street' is finally streaming

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'Homicide: Life on the Street' is available to stream on Peacock

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If you were too young to watch NBC’s groundbreaking police drama, Homicide: Life on the Street when it first debuted in 1993, you may wonder why there’s still so much fuss about the show more than three decades later.

That’s because so much of what Homicide presented was stuff you just didn’t see on network television back then: shaky, kinetic camera work; working stiff police detectives cracking jokes at gruesome murder scenes instead of solemnly vowing justice; serialized stories that arced over several episodes; heart-rending killings that never got solved. It was a cop show without gun battles or car chases, with a bracing shot of street-level realism, filmed mostly in Baltimore.

TV fans can step back in time Monday, when NBCUniversal rights a longtime injustice and makes all seven seasons of Homicide: Life on the Street available on its streaming service, Peacock – along with 2000's Homicide: the Movie . There’s a total 122 episodes, plus the TV movie.

One person glad to see these episodes finally arrive on streaming is Tom Fontana, who served as executive producer and showrunner for Homicide , helping develop its singular storytelling style.

He wasn’t directly involved with bringing the series to Peacock, though Fontana says he and fellow Homicide producers Barry Levinson and Gail Mutrux had been bugging the company to put the show online for years.

“We could never understand why they [didn’t do it sooner],” adds the producer, who created the prison drama Oz , HBO’s first original drama series, and most recently co-created the AMC drama Monsieur Spade . “We kept getting different reasons from different NBC executives.”

In a tweet in June, Homicide producer and writer David Simon – a former Baltimore Sun cops reporter who wrote the book the show was based on, Homicide: A Year on the Killing Streets – hinted that music rights were central to the delay.

Word is that NBC has managed to finally secure the music rights necessary to sell Homicide: Life On The Streets" to a streaming platform. Andre, Richard, Yaphet, Ned, and so many others who labored on that wonderful show on both sides of the camera will soon regain a full share… — David Simon (@AoDespair) June 17, 2024

In an emailed statement to NPR, NBCUniversal noted that it took “many years” for NBCUniversal Global TV Distribution and Universal TV to secure the rights and clearances needed and to remaster the series for HD and 4K, noting the HD versions will be available Monday with the 4K version to follow. The show’s crossover episodes with another classic NBC police drama, Law & Order , will not be included on Peacock. But the episodes on streaming will include “most” of the original music.

Resurfacing groundbreaking 1990s TV

Watching Homicide episodes reveals a series seriously ahead of its time, created by Paul Attanasio and focused on recreating Simon’s incisive look at the city’s murder police.

Here, viewers were introduced to The Box, the interrogation room where detectives often solved cases by cajoling confessions from suspects, like canny used car dealers pushing wary customers to sign on the dotted line.

Or The Board, a large, dry-erase display with every detective’s name, followed by the case number and last names of the murder victims in the crimes they were working – solved cases written in black, open cases in red. “You look up there, you know exactly where you stand,” says Yaphet Kotto’s world weary, Italian African American squad leader, Al Giardello. “About how many things in life can you say that?”

The Homicide series was where Simon learned to write TV scripts before creating his own groundbreaking shows for HBO, including The Wire . Fontana recalls, “I remember saying to [Simon], on the first day, ‘You know how in a newspaper article, you have to answer who, what, when, where in the first paragraph? TV writing is the opposite; you put off answering those questions as long as you possibly can.’…I think that was probably the only really good advice I gave him.”

Fontana’s notes to Simon may also explain why the structure of Homicide ’s episodes were so unusual for network TV. Characters didn’t directly say what was happening every moment, unlike so many police procedurals back then, which seemed to fear confusing audiences. Fontana says they would stick little “easter egg” style moments in episodes – with little regard for whether the audience understood them or not. In one story, for example, a man accused of racism seems to perceive color differently watching a TV set.

Given that viewers couldn’t watch the episodes on demand, or stop and rewind to catch things they might have missed, it was a bold choice. It also meant Homicide emerged as a series perfect for streaming, made long before streaming platforms actually existed.

The cast of Homicide: Life on the Street. NBCUniversal hide caption

‘A community of detectives’

The new episodes retain the show’s signature look in screeners provided by Peacock; songs by Miles Davis and the band Bleach seem to appear intact. Still, there is one longtime fan of the show who won’t be watching the new episodes on streaming: Fontana himself.

“I’m told the show holds up really well, but I’m not brave enough to watch it again,” he says. “I think the show feels real because we were talking about a community of detectives. And we didn’t want them all to sound like Dick Tracy or whatever. ”

Everyone from Oscar winner Melissa Leo to legendary indie film director and Baltimore institution John Waters appeared on the show. Robin Williams guested in a landmark episode called “Bop Gun,” playing the husband of a woman killed while they were visiting the city, horrified to overhear detectives joking about her murder with the easy familiarity of those who work close to death. (Williams’ appearance, Simon later wrote on his website , likely saved the show and cemented his TV writing career).

Vincent D’Onofrio also pops up in an episode Fontana cites as one of his favorites, called “Subway,” playing a man pushed onto a subway platform and pinned between the platform and the train. As the episode progresses, he slowly realizes he will die the moment they move the train car away.

Catching up on the work of departed acting legends

Perhaps best of all, fans can now see a long line of powerful actors who have since died – performers who delivered some of their best work on Homicide – including Kotto, Ned Beatty, Jon Polito, Richard Belzer and Andre Braugher.

Braugher shone as Det. Frank Pembleton, a hotshot known for closing cases by pushing suspects to confess in The Box. “What you will be privileged to witness is not an interrogation, but an act of salesmanship – as silver-tongued and thieving as ever moved used cars, Florida swampland or Bibles,” he tells a rookie observer in Homicide’s first episode. “But what I am selling is a long prison term. To a client who has no genuine use for the product. ”

Andre Braugher was a pioneer in playing smart, driven, flawed Black characters

NBCUniversal says fan reaction over the deaths last year of Belzer and Braugher – beloved actors whose later work included Law & Order: SVU and Brooklyn Nine-Nine – “was just another indicator that we should continue on our path” to bring Homicide to streaming now. Fontana notes it doesn’t hurt that Netflix also recently saw success with episodes of older series such as USA Network’s Suits and Showtime’s Your Honor , hinting that NBC’s Peacock might also benefit from elevating a classic series the company already owns.

But ask him why people are still interested in the show, about 25 years after the series ended, and the notoriously modest Fontana comes up short. “I’ve been trying to figure it out,” he says. “It’s unfortunate that the stories we told are still relevant. But it might engage a younger audience, because they can say, ‘Hey, prejudice, and misogyny and inequality are still part of day to day life.’”

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Homicide: Life on the Street Makes Its Streaming Debut 25 Years After Series Finale

'Homicide: Life on the Street' is available to stream on Peacock

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Homicide: Life on the Street is officially available to stream!

25 years after the show's finale, longtime fans will finally be able to watch the NBC police drama on Peacock. Starring Andre Braugher , Daniel Baldwin, Richard Belzer, Melissa Leo, Giancarlo Esposito and more, all seven seasons — including a TV movie and Law & Order crossover episodes — are available to stream.

The groundbreaking police series ran from 1993 to 1999 and followed the brutal detective work of a Baltimore homicide department, according to the official logline. Because of licensing and copyright issues, it took years of NBCUniversal to secure a deal to bring Homicide to their streaming platform.

In a tweet shared to X in June, Homicide  producer and writer David Simon revealed that the rights to the show "were negotiated long ago before streaming existed as a viewing platform" and that "fair compensation for the new use needed to be negotiated."

He updated excited fans and shared that NBC had "managed to finally secure the music rights necessary to sell Homicide: Life On The Streets to a streaming platform" and the series would be returning soon.

"Andre, Richard, Yaphet, Ned, and so many others who labored on that wonderful show on both sides of the camera will soon regain a full share of their legacy," he added.

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The announcement comes eight months after Braugher's untimely death from lung cancer in December.

His portrayal of Det. Frank Pembleton became one of his most most iconic roles. In 1998, he won his first Emmy Award for outstanding lead actor in a drama series before going on to rack up 11 nominations and two wins over the course of his career.

Shortly after his death, Barry Levinson, former Homicide executive producer, called Braugher “one of the really exceptional actors” to have come along in his career.

“What interesting is that as an actor, he almost invariably exceeded what you thought you might get,” he shared at the time. “That's what was, I think, unique about him in his very simple way without a lot of to-do. He delivered and exceeded your expectations.”

"That's how he functioned as an actor, as an individual. I don't know that you can give more praise to a person who I think was a terrific individual and a marvelous actor," he added.

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Homicide: Life on the Street is available to stream on Peacock.

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Many people think science is difficult and needs special equipment, but that’s not true.

Science can be explored at home using everyday materials. Everyone, especially children, naturally ask questions about the world around them, and science offers a structured way to find answers.

Misconceptions about the difficulty of science often stem from a lack of exposure to its fun and engaging side. Science can be as simple as observing nature, mixing ingredients or exploring the properties of objects. It’s not just for experts in white coats, but for everyone.

Don’t take my word for it. Below are three experiments that can be done at home with children who are primary school age and older.

Extract DNA from bananas

DNA is all the genetic information inside cells. Every living thing has DNA, including bananas.

Did you know you can extract DNA from banana cells?

What you need: ¼ ripe banana, Ziploc bag, salt, water, washing-up liquid, rubbing alcohol (from a pharmacy), coffee filter paper, stirrer.

What you do:

Place a pinch of salt into about 20ml of water in a cup.

Add the salty water to the Ziploc bag with a quarter of a banana and mash the banana up with the salty water inside the bag, using your hands. Mashing the banana separates out the banana cells. The salty water helps clump the DNA together.

Once the banana is mashed up well, pour the banana and salty water into a coffee filter (you can lay the filter in the cup you used to make the salty water). Filtering removes the big clumps of banana cells.

Once a few ml have filtered out, add a drop of washing-up liquid and swirl gently. Washing-up liquid breaks down the fats in the cell membranes which makes the DNA separate from the other parts of the cell.

Slowly add some rubbing alcohol (about 10ml) to the filtered solution. DNA is insoluble in alcohol, therefore the DNA will clump together away from the alcohol and float, making it easy to see.

DNA will start to precipitate out looking slightly cloudy and stringy. What you’re seeing is thousands of DNA strands – the strands are too small to be seen even with a normal microscope. Scientists use powerful equipment to see individual strands.

Learn how plants ‘drink’ water

What you need: celery stalks (with their leaves), glass or clear cup, water, food dye, camera.

• Fill the glass ¾ full with water and add 10 drops of food dye.
• Place a celery stalk into the glass of coloured water. Take a photograph of the celery.
• For two to three days, photograph the celery at the same time every day. Make sure you take a photograph at the very start of the experiment.

What happens and why?

All plants, such as celery, have vertical tubes that act like a transport system. These narrow tubes draw up water using a phenomenon known as capillarity.

Imagine you have a thin straw and you dip it into a glass of water. Have you ever noticed how the water climbs up the straw a little bit, even though you didn’t suck on it? This is because of capillarity.

In plants, capillarity helps move water from the roots to the leaves. Plants have tiny tubes inside them, like thin straws, called capillaries. The water sticks to the sides of these tubes and climbs up. In your experiment, you will see the food dye in the water make its way to the leaves.

Build a balloon-powered racecar

What you need: tape, scissors, two skewers, cardboard, four bottle caps, one straw, one balloon.

• Cut the cardboard to about 10cm long and 5cm wide. This will form the base of your car.
• Make holes in the centre of four bottle caps. These are your wheels.
• To make the axles insert the wooden skewers through the holes in the cap. You will need to cut the skewers to fit the width of the cardboard base, but leave room for the wheels.
• Secure the wheels to the skewers with tape.
• Attach the axles to the underside of the car base with tape, ensuring the wheels can spin freely.
• Insert a straw into the opening of a balloon and secure it with tape, ensuring there are no air leaks.
• Attach the other end of the straw to the top of the car base, positioning it so the balloon can inflate and deflate towards the back of the car. Secure the straw with tape.
• Inflate the balloon through the straw, pinch the straw to hold the air, place the car on a flat surface, then release the straw.

The inflated balloon stores potential energy when blown up. When the air is released, Newton’s third law of motion kicks into gear: for every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction.

As the air rushes out of the balloon (action), it pushes the car in the opposite direction (reaction). The escaping air propels the car forward, making it move across the surface.

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