There is abundant charm in this video about an experiment “to figure out where to best place a fan to optimally air out the house to cool it down at night”: (Thanks to Chris Hill for bringing this to our attention.)
Tag: air
Tracking the Air Exhaled by an Opera Singer
“Tracking the Air Exhaled by an Opera Singer” [by Philippe Bourrianne, Paul R. Kaneelil, Manouk Abkarian, and Howard A. Stone, Physical Review Fluids, vol. 6, no. 11, 2021] is one of the studies featured in “Viruses Research Review: Group Sex, Singer, Saint, Count“, which is a featured article in the special Viruses and Pandemics issue […]
Effect of Air Pollution on Professional Baseball Umpires
Professional baseball umpires are not supposed to make errors, yet they sometimes do. That happens more often on days when the air is badly polluted, suggests a new scientific study. If umpires make more bad decisions on bad-air days, then maybe so does anyone who has to make rapid judgment calls. As the saying goes: […]
Leaf blowers as medical ventilators (for giraffes)
If you were tasked with anaesthetising a giraffe with a high-potency fast-acting opiod-based drug-combination (in order to perform essential veterinary work) you might have an urgent need for a suitable mechanical ventilator. But where could you find one? A unique and imaginative solution has been devised by Dr Scott B. Citino, DVM, Dipl ACZM, of […]
