Category: Science
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David Blaine at TED: How I held my breath for 17 min
Oldie but goodie – “In this highly personal talk from TEDMED, magician and stuntman David Blaine describes what it took to hold his breath underwater for 17 minutes — a world record (only two minutes shorter than this entire talk!) — and what his often death-defying work means to him. Warning: do NOT try this…
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Irish Swimming goes high-tech with kinematic sensing system
Read Galway Independent, siliconrepublic and Swim Ireland Swim Ireland has teamed up with NUI Galway with a view to developing a new high performance analysis system for competitive swimming. The development work is well under way on the new system which utilises innovative kinematic sensing technology. The new technology which is in test mode is…
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TED-Ed Explains Why Fingers Get Pruney When Wet
Via Geekosystem As far as mysteries of the universe go, “Why do our fingers get pruney when they’re wet?†isn’t exactly the most pressing. It is, however, among the most persistent and just plain weird.
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Learn Anything in 20 Hours
A fun and thought-provoking TEDx Talk by Josh Kaufman, author of The First 20 Hours: How to Learn Anything . . . Fast!, via Lifehacker
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Google I/O 2013 – Dive Into Underwater Street View
30+ minutes of geekdom, bear with me Google and Catlin Seaview Survey‘s Richard Vevers have partnered together to bring the first ever underwater street view imagery to Google Maps. Learn how Catlin Seaview Survey has built a special camera to collect this spectacular surround imagery.
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TV Ad: Dara Torres, Knee Surgery, Cartilage Regeneration
When five-time Olympic swimmer Dara Torres found that knee osteoarthritis was keeping her out of the pool and unable to play with her young daughter, Torres chose Brigham and Women’s Hospital for an autologous chondrocyte implantation (ACI), or cartilage regeneration, which takes a patient’s own healthy cartilage to repair unhealthy cartilage. BWH is one of…
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Behind the scenes at the EnergyAustralia Swimming Championships
A glimpse of the work that sport scientist and analysts do behind the main scene. Also: Ice baths :-)
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Underwater Record Gets Examined On ‘Outrageous Acts Of Science’
See Huffington Post In November 2002, Tim Yarrow set a world record for most time spent underwater. He was underwater for 240 hours, beating out the previous record, 212 hours and 30 minutes, set in 1986 by Michael Stephens of Britain. Yarrow, was 30 when he dropped into the water for a week and a…