Thursday

repost day

The Leidenfrost Effect is a pretty cool science article I linked two years ago, on a previous blog. It's still a good read, I looked it up again when I saw a semi related post on MeFi.

If only the science we studied in class was as engaging as this, eh.

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

Holy crap that guy is insane putting liquid nitrogen in his mouth... and yes a very interesting read Mark.

aetherfox said...

the picture is the most interesting... the one with him splashing his hand all the way to the bottom of a metal container containing molten lead at 400 degrees, and watching the lead spray everywhere.

Ash said...

lol. that was a really cool article

xenobiologista said...

Is that the guy who wrote The Flying Circus of Physics? sounds familiar.