My dude, this answer is so easy. I would have exactly zero problems getting through that day. It would be just like my days now, except that I would not be constantly harassed by software trying to shovel AI down my throat.

Alexander Glass@alexanderglass.bsky.social · 14h ago

I have one answer.

If you put a thumb over your hose's outlet, you get a faster jet, but how does that affect the flow rate? That's the question Grady starts from in this Practical Engineering video exploring pipe flow physics. https://fyfluiddynamics.com/?p=31337

Snoring and sleep apnea--a condition where aeroelastic flutter obstructs the airway and stops breathing during sleep--often go hand-in-hand. Researchers are developing an audio screening technique for potential sleep apnea sufferers. https://fyfluiddynamics.com/?p=31290

Of the more than 9 billion metric tons of plastic that's been produced, a mere 9% has been recycled. About 12% has been incinerated, and the remainder is just out there--in our homes, our landfills, and, unfortunately, in our oceans. https://fyfluiddynamics.com/?p=31688

A supercell thunderstorm in New Mexico appears almost otherworldly in this photo from Dennis Hualong Zhang. Glowing from within and stacked like a layer cake, the storm menaces the nearby road and fields. https://fyfluiddynamics.com/?p=26683

Uranus and Neptune--known as our system's ice giants--are our least explored planets. "Ice giant" is one structure that matches the limited measurements we have from these planets, but, as today's preprint study points out, it's not the only one. https://fyfluiddynamics.com/?p=31585

It's the summertime, so Gav and Dan of the Slow Mo Guys are back to experimenting with giant water balloons. In this video, they send several careening down a slope into Dan's face. https://fyfluiddynamics.com/?p=31603

Sad news this morning. The Frames were my favorite band all through college, and Glen's whole-hearted love for music was a big part of that. I only met him once, decades ago, after a show, and he was unfailingly kind to the starstruck teenager I was then. Sharing some of my favorites below:

Stereogum@stereogum.com · last wk.

Glen Hansard has died in a motorcycle crash at age 56

When pulling a shot of espresso, there are complicated physics at play. Here, researchers used X-ray tomography to visualize how and when water moves through the bed, which affects how flavors extract. https://fyfluiddynamics.com/?p=30959

Today's fun new vocab word: eruciform, meaning shaped like a caterpillar. You're welcome.

For much of the year, Cañon Fiord in the Canadian Arctic lies under ice and snow, but in the summer melt season, colors peek out. Here sea ice and sediment swirl in the fjord in eddies that are kilometers wide. https://fyfluiddynamics.com/?p=30687

What a weird feeling to take a break from *actually writing my book using my brain* to see something like this. Prompting a machine to barf up the regurgitated remains of other people's thoughts is not writing a book.

Damon Young@damonyoung.com.au · 2w ago

Nope. No, you haven’t.

Iceland's Múlajökull glacier is prone to sudden surges, where rapid ice flow is interspersed between periods of quiescence or retreat. #geophysics #glacier #physics #science https://fyfluiddynamics.com/?p=31457

Most of what we know about Earth's interior comes from observing how seismic waves--mostly from earthquakes--bounce around. https://fyfluiddynamics.com/?p=31424

Walter, a young African penguin at the New York Aquarium, loves soap bubbles. In fairness to Walter, so do most people I've met. There's just something that feels a bit magical about these ephemeral rainbow spheres that pop at a (dry) touch. https://fyfluiddynamics.com/?p=31695

The classic theory of steady wave motion predicts a phenomenon called Stokes drift. But in the real world, ocean waves aren't quite so neat and unchanging. A new study looks at what happens when waves are decaying in strength. https://fyfluiddynamics.com/?p=31590

Today's reminder that I'm still a huge nerd: I got super excited reading a paper because the authors were advocating for the usefulness of the (ever awesome!) linear stability analysis.

NASA's X-59 aircraft is intended to demonstrate supersonic flight without the boom. Although we haven't yet heard its "sonic thump," we do have a glimpse of what to expect, thanks to wind tunnel tests. https://fyfluiddynamics.com/?p=31735

The Odyssey's Charybdis is real. 🧵

Bethany Brookshire@beebrookshire.bsky.social · 3w ago

Thank you @wwrfd.bsky.social for letting me haul out my Wilson Odyssey translation and get super nerdy for Nat Geo. Esp because I talk to talk about the REAL PLACES behind the Odyssey. www.nationalgeographic.com/science/arti...

Life in Venice Beach lends itself to wave-watching, or so it seems for photographer Craig Hubbard. https://fyfluiddynamics.com/?p=31447

Our largest space telescope, JWST, has a 6.5-meter reflector, the largest we could manage given manufacturing constraints and the need to launch it in a rocket. To reach even larger sizes, researchers are considering a new type of reflector: one made of liquid. https://fyfluiddynamics.com/?p=31563

In cold weather, a new geological feature has shown up at Utah's Great Salt Lake in the last decade. These salty mirabilite mounds form terraced crystals that resemble Yellowstone's Mammoth Hot Springs. https://fyfluiddynamics.com/?p=31419

Here, researchers explore what happens when the droplet can dissolve the fiber it's suspended on. As the authors note, a lumberjack who cuts the branch they sit on makes a fatal choice. The droplet sees a different outcome. https://fyfluiddynamics.com/?p=31524

In the early twentieth century, Los Angeles had capital and political willpower, but not water. So it built an engineering marvel, the LA Aquaduct, to guide water from the Sierra Nevadas down to the growing city. https://fyfluiddynamics.com/?p=30835

Good morning. Today is the LAST DAY to comment on the proposed OMB rule that will, honestly, destroy science in the US. And it will do FAR MORE THAN THAT. www.theverge.com/science/9576...

The war against ‘woke’ could end US science as we know it

‘Everyone will be affected, not just scientists. Every community in the country.’

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With AI slop rotting our information landscape, we have to rely more than ever on the skills that make us experts, I argue in my op-ed, out today at @physicsworld.bsky.social: physicsworld.com/a/in-the-age...

In the age of AI, we must double down on the skills that make us experts – Physics World

Nicole Sharp says that our scientific judgement has never been more important

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In this short film, videographer Maxwel Hohn follows the migration of western toad tadpoles in British Columbia, showing their daily underwater journey from deep waters, where they can hide, to warmer, shallow waters, where they eat. https://fyfluiddynamics.com/?p=31435

Sad news. I had the pleasure of meeting her 15 or so years ago. Such a warm, vibrant woman with incredible stories to share.

The Associated Press@apnews.com · 4w ago

Wally Funk, an aviation pioneer who was the oldest woman to launch into space, has died. She was 87.

To enhance the burn-off of marine oil spills, researchers are looking at the possibility of triggering large-scale fire whirls. https://fyfluiddynamics.com/?p=30819

Okay, now accepting suggestions on the best way to open this box when my (popular science) book comes out next summer. Also, also: I gotta get this book, pronto.

John Wiswell@wiswell.bsky.social · 4w ago

Unboxing my new Fantasy novel the only way I know how: WITH A SWORD.