We all miss one or two life lessons. Some people, like Lifehacker reader izzysanime, never learned how to blow up a balloon. It’s actually kind of tricky until you learn it! So we’ll teach you.

EXPLANATION: All of this experiment is possible because of air pressure. When you blow up a balloon, the air goes from your lungs and hits the walls of the balloon – this creates air pressure that ...

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) – This year’s annual Burning of Zozobra marked the event’s 100th anniversary. To celebrate, the Kiwanis Club, City of Santa Fe, and City of Albuquerque joined efforts to ...

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How much air does a car engine really use? To demonstrate this, I attached balloons to the exhaust of my Honda S2000. The slight back pressure from the balloon is minimal—after all, if your lungs can ...