Love the Exploratorium.

They have a great example of this in the Exploratorium in SF, but in a rotating/flipping clear plastic tube with a feather and a plastic army man and a button to turn on the vacuum.

Just posted an Exploritorium video and haven't been there since i was a kid. Have you been recently? I'm now thinking i should take a trip to the city to check it out. Maybe learn me some sciency stuff http://videosift.com/video/How-Cool-Is-This-Concave-Mirror-Exploratorium-San-Francisco

Cool, did not know that. The one we get to hear most often is the ghoti = fish example for unphoneticness of English.

In reply to this comment by oritteropo:
How about Ladle Rat Rotten Hut?

Your point about the sounds shifting is interesting, I've noticed that if I watch a long enough (subtitled!) Dutch movie, by the end I can pick up a few words which are similar or the same as English once a few sounds are changed a little.
In reply to this comment by DerHasisttot:
I've onyl read ballads and such from these periods, I can read middle english Ok, old english: Not really, only if I really get into it and learn some symbols again. Reading frisian is far easier than understanding it by hearing, the same probably goes for swabian. Most of the times you just have to shift some different sounds to certain letters and you've got an approximation of a more standard german.
The northern german intonation (of their dialect) however is hell for me to understand, that's completely different, as you said. Swabian is spoken more softly and sonorant in the back of the throat, whereas northern german sounds 'headier' and nasal to me.

How about Ladle Rat Rotten Hut?

Your point about the sounds shifting is interesting, I've noticed that if I watch a long enough (subtitled!) Dutch movie, by the end I can pick up a few words which are similar or the same as English once a few sounds are changed a little.
In reply to this comment by DerHasisttot:
I've onyl read ballads and such from these periods, I can read middle english Ok, old english: Not really, only if I really get into it and learn some symbols again. Reading frisian is far easier than understanding it by hearing, the same probably goes for swabian. Most of the times you just have to shift some different sounds to certain letters and you've got an approximation of a more standard german.
The northern german intonation (of their dialect) however is hell for me to understand, that's completely different, as you said. Swabian is spoken more softly and sonorant in the back of the throat, whereas northern german sounds 'headier' and nasal to me.

The only opinions I hold in high regard on this matter are expert opinions, the opinions of people who are intimately familiar with at least a part of the global climate change research, and those people are unified in their opinion that human factors (primarily a high output of carbon dioxide and methane) are driving climate change, and disorganized in their opinion of how scared we should be for future generations.

http://www.exploratorium.edu/climate/

I could give a shit what my boss has to say about a human part in global climate change; his PhD is in biomedical engineering, he knows what Nature and Scientific America have published on the matter and not a drop more.