Tuesday, January 15, 2013

Notifiblog: Baby, It's Cold Outside (Worldwide Version)

Actually, this morning felt ever-so-slightly warmer than yesterday morning did.  Recently, though, I was inspired to change my computer's ​wallpaper to what I like to call "Ice Feathers."   Ice can be pretty amazing when you're not trying to walk or drive a car on it.

Have you ever seen ice feathers on a car's windscreen?  Beautiful.

In the realm of cool kid science projects, one can demonstrate displacement--and that ice dropped into a glass of water displaces exactly its own volume and no more.

And, of course, one can't have ice hockey without ice!  Did you see that coming?  You know I manage to make it about hockey whenever possible, right?  Photos of fighting hockey players make good blood drive posters.  The bumper sticker/t-shirt slogan goes, "Give Blood:  Play Hockey!"  (In my favorite hockey fight photo, Portland Winterhawks' Luca Sbisa lands a good right on Spokane Chiefs' Kyle "Dives More Than Greg Louganis" Beach.)


Keep your stick on the ice!

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