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Rather than stopping and turning around, athletes could somersault under the water and get going right away in the opposite direction.
This second cliff, the introduction of gutters on the side of the pool that allows water to splash off, rather than becoming turbulence that impedes the swimmers as they race.
The average length of the forearm of a water polo player in relation to their total arm got longer, all the better for a forceful throwing whip.
It's like the long hull of a canoe for speed over the water.
More people in Kenya, and in sub-Saharan Africa, have access to a mobile phone than they do clean running water.
We can talk about the role of vegetation in transporting water from the soils back into the atmosphere.
You get a beautiful representation of what's going on in the climate system, where each and every one of those emergent patterns that you can see, the swirls in the Southern Ocean, the tropical cyclone in the Gulf of Mexico, and there's two more that are going to pop up in the Pacific at any point now, those rivers of atmospheric water, all of those are emergent properties that come from the interactions of all of those small-scale processes I mentioned.
Deforestation changes the climate by changing the surface properties and how water is evaporated and moved around in the system.
You invite me to the same expensive restaurants the two of us have always enjoyed, but I order mineral water now with a twist of lemon, not the 12-dollar glass of chardonnay.
In the desert, operating costs are high because water is scarce, and the seed-eating ants that I study in the desert have to spend water to get water.
So an ant outside foraging, searching for seeds in the hot sun, just loses water into the air.
But the colony gets its water by metabolizing the fats out of the seeds that they eat.
On dry days, some colonies forage less, so colonies are different in how they manage this trade-off between spending water to search for seeds and getting water back in the form of seeds.
Over the time of the study, and especially in the past 10 years, there's been a very severe and deepening drought in the Southwestern U.S., and it turns out that the colonies that conserve water, that stay in when it's really hot outside, and thus sacrifice getting as much food as possible, are the ones more likely to have offspring colonies.
And I think it's pretty likely that the invasive species, the ones that come into our buildings, are going to be really good at this, because they're in your kitchen because they're really good at finding food and water.
After a free fall of four to five seconds, the body strikes the water at about 75 miles an hour.
Those that don't generally flail in the water helplessly, and then drown.
There was no running water.
And in fact, it heats the water a lot more quickly.
I mean the world where women and children spend 40 billion hours a year fetching water.
That's as if the entire workforce of the state of California worked full time for a year doing nothing but fetching water.
Amy Smith: Some of the other things we're working on are ways to do low-cost water quality testing, so that communities can maintain their own water systems, know when they're working, know when they treat them, etc.
One of the really exciting things is looking at solar water disinfection and improving the ability to be able to do that.
And it doesn't need a lot of fresh water.
It uses a lot less fresh water than, for example, cattle, where you have to irrigate a field so that you can grow the food to graze the cattle.
We know that we can produce healthy meals for hundreds of millions of people that don't use the land, that don't use much water, have a low carbon footprint, and are cost-effective.
We need a terrestrial planet in that just right "Goldilocks zone," where water flows as a liquid.
The basic building blocks of life aren't unique to Earth: amino acids have been found in comets, complex organic molecules in interstellar dust clouds, water in exoplanetary systems.
That she was birthed in sandalwood-scented river water, sweet sapphire honey-touched tongue, she was too much of a mouthful for the greedy.
For example, if one actor says, "Here is a pool of water," and the other actor says, "No, that's just a stage," the improvisation is over.
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