Interesting Links for 23-01-2023

[andrewducker]

1. The Broom Method of telling if you're about to walk into a cloud of burning hydrogen

(tags:hydrogen fire history NASA )

2. How much would you need to sell a shirt for in the USA if you paid your employees a living wage?

(tags:clothes economics USA )

3. Scientists Discover Species of Gut Microbes That Can Boost the Motivation To Exercise (in mice)

(tags:microbiome bacteria exercise mice )

4. How our microbiome is shaped by family, friends and even neighbours

(tags:microbiome bacteria )

5. How the 'deal' between the monarchy and the media really works

(tags:monarchy media journalism uk )

Comments

1.

[channelpenguin]

Comments somewhere mention steam - very nasty too. Invisible (see §), and capable of near-instantly slicing bits off you whilst cauterising at the same time. My dad used to *listen* for steam leaks - he did lose a fraction of skin off the top of one ear as I recall. All old steam turbine engineers (ship's engineers) have horrible tales of people getting limbs chopped off. How true? I dunno, but the several I have known have told me tales.

§"Steam is invisible, that stuff from the kettle is WATER VAPOUR" - My Dad, approx 1,000,000 times in my childhood.

Re: 1.

[danieldwilliam]

I've heard of some nasty cutting injuries from high pressure water cleaners. I can believe that high pressure steam would be worse.

I used to work for a power company who ran CCGT's and we had a steam pressure blow out in the low pressure system which blew some chunks of metal through two metal walls.