Category: Science
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Behold, Dana Vollmer’s gold-winning butterfly technique captured in 3D
Computer scientists at Manhattan Mocap have together with New York University’s Movement Laboratory and The New York Times isolated the movements of London 2012 triple gold medalist Dana Vollmer and diver Abby Johnston, through a cutting-edge technique that reveals their motions above and below the water’s surface. A system called AquaCapâ„¢, which captures underwater motion…
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Prestigious academic journal apologizes to Ye Shiwen for controversial article
No, settle down, it wasn’t John Leonard / ASCA, but the (for some of us) lesser Nature, hit hard for attacking Ye Shiwen in the article “Why great Olympic feats raise suspicions“, to the point where their comment system broke down. Having had to change their subtitle because (and I quote) “the original version of…
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The horrific consequences of being Aquaman
Straight facts on our favorite superhero, courtesy of Southern Fried Science, for instance on how Aquaman couldn’t survive the temperature even in the hottest ocean because he is way too thin: Aquaman is not just a human, he is an incredibly buff human. Look at his picture. If the man has more than 2% body…
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Tracking the wave of success for Team GB’s swimmers
Training sessions for Team GB’s swimmers have been getting a helping hand from a new system incorporating cutting-edge movement tracking and sensor technologies. Read more here on phys.org and watch the video below.
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Paddle vs. Propeller: Which Olympic Swimming Stroke is Superior?
The age-old question (maybe) answered, Rajat Mittal, A Johns Hopkins fluid dynamics expert, has found that the deep catch stroke, resembling a paddle, has the edge over sculling, the bent-arm, propeller-inspired motion.
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Can you swim as fast in syrup as in regular water?
The age-old question, Mythbusters to the rescue !
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What happens when you crack an egg 20 meters underwater?
The Bermuda Institute of Ocean Sciences presents “The Egg”, a video short from the 2011 BIOS Explorer program’s “Water Moves” series. For more information about why the egg behaves like it does, as well as further videos in the series, visit www.bios.edu
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See heart rates in plain sight with “Eulerian Video Magnification”
Researchers at MIT have developed a process called “Eulerian Video Magnification” to ‘reveal temporal variations in videos that are difficult or impossible to see with the naked eye and display them in an indicative manner. In real-time, code soon to be released so that we one day might get this technology for instance with Google’s…