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YouTube description: Kerosene Creek is a natural hot spring near Rotorua, on the North Island of New Zealand. And there have been official warnings for years: don't put your head under water. It turns... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 5 years 4 months 3 weeks ago • 423 views • 3:42Nestle, the world’s largest food and beverage company, bottles Michigan’s water for next to nothing and sells it at great profit. And the state has just approved its request to pump even more, despite... continue reading
posted by Mordhaus 5 years 5 months 1 week ago • 772 views • 12:07YouTube description: Dams serve a wide variety of purposes from hydropower to flood control to storage of water for municipal and industrials uses. But when a dam’s useful purpose fades away, the... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 5 years 6 months ago • 1,291 views • 8:40YouTube description: Engineers at MIT and Penn State University have found that under the right conditions, ordinary clear water droplets on a transparent surface can produce brilliant colors, without... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 5 years 7 months ago • 399 views • 3:03"... Today's Adventures! Wren uses visual effects to show you how much water is actually on Planet Earth! ..."
posted by ant 5 years 7 months ago • 54 views • 6:38YouTube description: A microscopic examination of dirty water before boiling and after boiling. The magnification in each shot is shown in the bottom right hand corner. Camera - Nikon D3300 ... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 5 years 7 months 4 weeks ago • 1,736 views • 4:33YouTube description: Engineers need to be able to predict how water will behave in order to design structures that manage or control it. And fluids don’t always behave the way you’d expect. On this... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 5 years 8 months ago • 752 views • 8:43YouTube description: It's a terrible idea to try to extinguish burning metal with a water or CO2 fire extinguisher. Steve Mould shows why.
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 5 years 8 months 2 weeks ago • 1,518 views • 7:25YouTube description: Motherboard meets Kevin Vaughan, a 28-year-old vet and amputee as he tries his new amphibious water prosthetic, "The Fin,” a 3D printed prosthetic engineered for swimming.... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 5 years 8 months 3 weeks ago • 169 views • 5:02YouTube description: Comparing modern concrete to that of the western Roman empire. In this video, I discuss a few modern techniques that help improve design life of concrete, including roller compacted... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 5 years 11 months ago • 495 views • 9:34YouTube description: Their skeletons are prized by beachcombers, but sand dollars look way different in their lives beneath the waves. Covered in thousands of purple spines, they have a bizarre diet... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 5 years 11 months 3 weeks ago • 510 views • 4:23Romans used sealed aquaducts to span valleys too large for raised aquaducts.
posted by newtboy 6 years 1 week ago • 1,045 views • 1:36YouTube description: For thousands of years, the people of Hungary have soaked in the rich, thermal waters that lie below the country’s surface. From Roman emperors to Turkish kings, Budapest’s... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 6 years 3 months 1 week ago • 422 views • 2:45YouTube description: A metal alloy spoon melts in tea. Featuring Professor Sir Martyn Poliakoff and Senior Technician Neil Barnes. Why not use Gallium? Well - besides the fact it's not what we... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 6 years 4 months 2 weeks ago • 1,324 views • 4:27