“We asked scientist Dr Glenn Platt from the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) to go in to a swimming centre to offer handy tips on how to reduce energy usage. See what advice he has to give for swimming pools and other small businesses.”
“Going for a quick dip in Fernie’s partially iced over river”
“Two years of training paid of!!!”
“Swimming Freestyle is all about Balanced, Coordinated Movement. Often times, when we work with a new swimmer for the first time, we see that they rotate their body way to much, resulting in an unbalanced stroke with little coordination, and this leads to a lack of power and overall endurance in the stroke. Watch this video for some easy tips to make sure that you are keeping your rotation in check.”
Swimmers Sun Yang and Ye Shiwen came out the big winners at the recent 2012 China Central Television Sports Personality Awards.
Hungary’s Katinka Hosszú happy after winning the women’s 100 meter individual medley at the FINA 2012 World Swimming Championships (25m) in Istanbul, Turkey. See the result list here.
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.
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 hidden there :-)
