A not-terribly-exciting video that demonstrates a terribly exciting thing you’ll shortly be trying yourself (please be careful) to see whether or not it’s a troll.
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Tag Archives: water
A 2011 short for the NTR KORT! program directed by Frodo Kuipers:
Burning in the desert sun, Eduardo – a lemonade seller with a small stand – is fighting the urge to drink his last and final bottle of refreshing lemonade. Then, a thirsty customer comes crawling towards his stand…
Architecture and design critic Oliver Wainwright steps into the London Barbican’s Rain Room: where 2,500 litres of water falls at 1,000 litres per minute but you won’t get wet.
Created by art studio rAndom International, the free installation (which opened last week) runs until 3 March 2013.
Why Go Bald?
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Water Wigs by Tim Tadder who explains:
We found a bunch of awesome bald men and hurled water balloons at their heads, to capture the explosion of water at various intervals. The result a new head of of water hair! We used a laser and sound trigger to capture the right moments for each subject to create just the head of hair that fit best with the face.
This is not just another cute animal video compilation, sez Nature, this is science.
David Hu and colleagues at the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta filmed 33 wet mammals as they shook themselves dry. Some furry animals are aided by loose skin, which “whips the fluid around much faster than if the skin was tight”, says Hu. This generates forces of between 10 and 70 times that of gravity — high enough that the animals have to close their eyes to prevent damage from the extreme centrifugal forces.
Fact of the day: a drenched dog can rid itself of 70% of the water on its fur in four seconds.
Yikes! It’s like Sandycove on a Thursday afternoon.
National Geographic photographer Michael Yamashita tells My Modern Met:
It seems a number of viewers are horrified, appalled, nauseated and generally grossed out by the sheer number of swimmers squeezed into these mega-pools. There’s no question that given the heat, humidity, and population of Tokyo in the summer, the throngs at any swimming pool there are going to, by definition, test the limits of crowd control and sanitation….[But] Japanese people, by tradition and habit, are arguably the cleanest – not to mention the most cleanliness-conscious – in the world. The water in these pools is clean enough to drink!”
Ri-ight.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xWu19Tk8k-4
Stick around for the last one.
It defies reason.
My two spaniels (Mel and Lou) drink rainwater in preference to tap water containing fluoride. Animal instinct is worth noting when even the dogs in the street are aware of something unnatural grouped with bromine, chlorine and iodine in our drinking water.
Their teeth, by the way, are in perfect condition! – Yours, etc,Dermot Carberry
Ardclough,
Straffan,
Co Kildare.
Problems With Fluoride (Irish Times letters)
(Picture posed by models)
The first video shows what happens when water droplets are applied to a superhyrdrophobic surface (in this case, paper rubbed with aerogel powder).
The second shows two 2-4mm droplets from the first experiment, now coated with hydrophobic material, (waterproofed water droplets) refusing to unify.
You there at the back. Wake up. There’ll be a test.