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Watch Bill Nye Teach Science Using Tacos for Fun Fun Fun Fest

Double the tacos for all the fun.

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Nadia Chaudhury is the editor of Eater Austin covering food and pop culture, as well as a photographer, writer, and frequent panel moderator and podcast guest.

For Fun Fun Fun Fest’s lineup announcement video released today, Bill Nye the Science Guy delved into the science of, well, fun. This includes tacos of course. The very scientific Venn Diagram depicts festival-goers’ favorite things: tacos, convenience, and more tacos. The overlapping area results in the festival’s famous taco cannon. Under the "quantitative bummer observations" is a Mario Batali dig: "old guys in Crocs" aren’t fun, according to Nye.

In April, Fun Fun Fun Fest had to defend its claim on the world’s original taco cannon when other publications wrote that Omaha’s Voodoo Taco and the University of Nebraska-Omaha were creating the first artillery. Then there was the Taco Cannon Wars of 2013, when the festival switched its edible projectiles from Torchy’s to Tamale House.

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