Category: Science
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Nanotechnology in Competitive Swimming
Learn about what nanotechnology has to do with swimming. http://youtu.be/3lq_MAH1y10
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Marine Scientists use Google Street View to share images
Philippe Cousteau joins scientists using Google Street View to share their incredible underwater images online. See also Catlin Seaview Survey.
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Swimming pool as physics classroom
See wbng “The kids have been preparing for about three weeks now for the Great Cardboard Race,” said middle school science teacher Deidra Bigelow, “And they’re very excited. We’ve been talking about buoyancy and floating and sinking in science class.”
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Weight loss by (extreme) ice bathing ?
Read the Wired Cronise got the idea back in 2008 while watching a TV program about Michael Phelps. The coverage claimed that, while training, the Olympic swimmer ate 12,000 calories a day. At the time, Cronise was on a diet of 12,000 calories per week. (He was carrying 209 pounds on his 5’9″ frame and…
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Your body language shapes who you are
“Body language affects how others see us, but it may also change how we see ourselves. Social psychologist Amy Cuddy shows how “power posing” — standing in a posture of confidence, even when we don’t feel confident — can affect testosterone and cortisol levels in the brain, and might even have an impact on our…
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Underwater tourist photos help scientists track individual whale sharks
Wow, posting your underwater holiday photos online could help conservationists track the movements of whale sharks, a new study finds, led by a researcher from Imperial College London. They compared results using tourist images with results based on surveys by marine researchers specifically aiming to track the sharks, and found that individual whale sharks could…
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What Happens When You Put A Red Hot Nickel Ball On Ice?
Awesomeness, that’s what
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1 kg of this polymer could turn an Olympic pool to jelly
Dutch researchers have developed a gel-forming polymer so effective that a kilogram of the stuff sprinkled across an Olympic sized swimming pool would turn the entire thing to jelly. All you have to do is add a little heat, which is sort of the opposite of what you normally do with gels. Read Nature via Popsci
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How long could you swim in a spent nuclear fuel pool?
An interesting science blog post here on What if?, via Chron What if I took a swim in a typical spent nuclear fuel pool? Would I need to dive to actually experience a fatal amount of radiation? How long could I stay safely at the surface? Read it to the bottom, there’s a cheeky joke…