Professor Flannigan is the character used on this site to teach young people about science in a humorous, unbiased setting.
Flannigan himself is a somewhat absent-minded, often accident-prone, yet extremely brilliant scientist and inventor who looks like a steampunk hobo. Who knows what machines he'll cook up next?
A blue potato is a marker used on this site to remind young scientists to remain safe in the lab! Why is it called a "blue potato", though? It's what happens when iodine gets into starch! If you had a baked potato you were going to eat, and if it was in your lab, and if you were working with iodine, and if the potato came in contact with the iodine by accident, you would essentially get...
A blue potato.
A blue potato.
Noteboxes
Noteboxes are like blue potatoes, only they serve other purposes... Including fun ways of remembering information, warnings, or other fun notes, like in the "Flannigan Says" boxes.
Particularly juicy bits of information may be in bold font, and, if the information is COMPLETELY AMAZING AND AWESOME, it may be marked by a mindboggle Flannigan icon.
Particularly juicy bits of information may be in bold font, and, if the information is COMPLETELY AMAZING AND AWESOME, it may be marked by a mindboggle Flannigan icon.