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andrewducker) wrote2011-11-21 11:00 am
andrewducker) wrote2011-11-21 11:00 am
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Interesting Links for 21-11-2011
- OWS in an alternate universe
- The co-op business model: share whatever you've got
- A very nice visualisation of a Bach cello piece. Click the "?" in the corner for an explanation
- Oddly, Texas can teach the UK a thing or two on criminal justice
- Go on tour? How old fashioned! Mariah Carey broadcasts holograms instead.
- It looks like setting targets for schools and hospitals is actually a good thing
- What happens when you crack an egg 100ft under water?
- The longest, strangest forgery spree the American art world has known
- Walking through doorways causes forgetting
- Self-Help for Nerds. (Cue numerous disagreeing comments over the definitions of "nerd", "geek" and "dork")
- Amazon leaves girl gamers out in the cold. (Message to marketing departments - please _think_)
- Brent Spiner on perceptions of Star Trek
- Interesting stuff on The Great Dying, when volcanos nearly wiped out all life on Earth.
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"When the divers broke the egg, the result was not a gloppy mess, but rather the egg remained in a ovoid shape until it, well, disappeared!"
That seemed unlikely and you couldn't really see from the video -- you could see a whole yoke but not really the white -- the source claims "The reason that the egg looks yellow is the fact that raw egg whites are nearly transparent, so it’s hard to make them out on video". Alas, if you check on youtube there are other, better focussed, underwater egg videos and you can see that the white actually becomes a bit of a gloppy mess but the yolk stays whole. (which tallies with my expectations from numerous attempts to make great poached eggs).
I'm going to have to try this but it's going to be a while before I'm diving anywhere where I can get to 30 or 40 metres depth with any kind of good light.
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And the idea of diving somewhere dark and probably cold fills me with dread. I loved Cyprus and Israel for the warm water and excellent viewing distance.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scapa_Flow#Scuba_diving
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