From the brains behind brains on, this is The Moment of Um, um, um, um, um, um, um.

Moment of Um comes to you from APM Studios. I'm Molly Bloom.

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Today is Monday, and every Monday I try to become the best that I can be at something new.

On Tuesdays, I polish my doorknob collection, and on Wednesdays

I make mystery flavor muffins, but I'm getting off topic. Today, I'm trying to perfect my paper

airplane folding technique. I've got some scrap paper here from last Monday's Haiku writing practice,

and I'm working on nice, crisp fold. I'm not sure what shape of

airplane I should go for though. I wanted to zoom through the air and go really far or maybe do

a loop-to-loop. Hmm, do I go long and sleek like a fighter jet or big wide wings like a hang glider?

Should I give up on airplanes and try to fold a blimp instead?

No, come on, Molly, you got this.

You're not alone.

Lincoln was just asking the same thing.

Hi, my name is Lincoln and I live in Terrace BC, Canada.

My question is, what makes a good paper airplane?

So there are two many things that we need to think about whenever we were making a paper airplane.

My name is Angie Werthe and I'm a graduate student at the University of Notre Dame studying physics.

Those two things are the lift and the weight.

So lift is the force that makes an airplane go up,

and weight is the force that pulls that airplane down.

So we have to balance that.

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