Try The McGurk Effect! - Horizon: Is Seeing Believing? - BBC Two. Tree. MASSIVE NEWS UNDER STRICT EMBARGO - edyong's posterous. Flu Attack! How A Virus Invades Your Body. Powering the Cell: Mitochondria. The Animators of Life. As Freezing Persons Recollect the Snow--First Chill--Then Stupor--Then the Letting Go. Even today, scientists can't predict who hypothermia will strike down and who it will spare. Photo: Zastol`skiy Victor Leonidovich/Shutterstock The cold remains a mystery, more prone to fell men than women, more lethal to the thin and well muscled than to those with avoirdupois, and least forgiving to the arrogant and the unaware. When your Jeep spins lazily off the mountain road and slams backward into a snowbank, you don't worry immediately about the cold.
Your first thought is that you've just dented your bumper. Your second is that you've failed to bring a shovel. Your third is that you'll be late for dinner. Friends are expecting you at their cabin around eight for a moonlight ski, a late dinner, a sauna. Driving out of town, defroster roaring, you barely noted the bank thermometer on the town square: minus 27 degrees at 6:36. But now you're stuck. You check your watch: 7:18.
Breath rolls from you in short frosted puffs. Others are less fortunate, even in much milder conditions. David Gallo shows underwater astonishments.