Featured image: Stars Over Mountains - Photo by Casey Horner on Unsplash The Concept Friday Night Experiments are those experiments and off-hand projects which actually involve doing something but that are tangential to my “real” work; or experiments I just expect to fail badly. The term comes from Andre Geim and Kostya Novoselov who frequently held what they termed “Friday night experiments” – sessions where they would try out experimental science that wasn’t necessarily linked to their day jobs.