Here are 5 of the 6 Alkali metals reacting to air and water. When reacting to air, the metals seem to simply change color, but when they touch water, each one becomes a small explosive. [via]
Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd receives a climate wakeup call
November 18, 2009 @ 9:05 pm
Photo: REUTERS/Mick Tsikas
From The Big Picture comes this amusing photo of a person dressed as Australia’s Prime Minister Kevin Rudd sitting on the beach and waking up with water around him. The stunt was organized by Oxfam Australia on September 21, 2009 and was aimed to bring awareness to global climate change.
Water droplets bounce on the surface of water
November 9, 2009 @ 9:04 pm
At 2000 frames per second, this video shows a droplet of water bouncing on top of the surface of liquid that it touches. According to science, this happens because there is a very thin layer of air between the droplet and the surface of the water which gets pushed out as the weight of the droplet pushes downward. When the air between the droplet and the surface gets squeezed away, the water droplet pops and the resulting wave on the water pushes the droplet upwards causing it to bounce. This happens several times until the water droplet is small enough to be absorbed by the water. [via]
MY MIND IS BLOWN.
Time for a drink at the watering hole
October 30, 2009 @ 9:11 am
Photo: Kevin Frayer/AP
A dog takes a drink from a livestock watering hole in Rajasthan, India during an annual local festival that attracts livestock dealers and thousands of animals. What a great photo! [via]
Canon EOS 7D drenched in water
October 27, 2009 @ 12:28 am
At about 1:35 of this DigitalRev Canon EOS 7D review, you can see them literally drench the camera in water. As you may or may not know, the Canon EOS 7D is one of the better equipped weatherproof cameras that Canon has in its SLR line. But even if my camera could do this, I would never ever do it on purpose just for testing. That’s pretty ballsy.
Writing In The Air by Shinichi Maruyama
October 13, 2009 @ 10:30 pm
Reader Sergio sent in this link today to Shinichi Maruyama, a Japanese artist who writes and paints in the sky by photographing black ink with water. Maruyama’s series, some of which are shown here, is called “Kusho” and it literally could mean any number of things alluding to emptiness, the sky, space and calligraphy or handwriting.
To photograph the images in “Kusho”, Shinichi Maruyama uses advanced photographic strobe technology to capture movement at 7500th to 20,000th of a second. Check out the images below and see more from this amazing photo series at Shinichi Maruyama’s website.
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