Re:Researchers solve mystery of odd behavior by droplets of ...
by teekert on Friday November 20, 2020 @04:39AM
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I agree, it would be nice if they just explained where the energy comes from and how it flows to drive this, imho the most interesting question. But I guess "a mystery" draws a bigger public. For me it just means frustration after watching the movie.
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Re:Researchers solve mystery of odd behavior by droplets of ...
by TeMPOraL on Friday November 20, 2020 @04:46AM
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I guess it's a difference in the target audience. They're writing for the people who will look at it and exclaim, "oh, how beautiful deep and profound this Science is".
Myself, I look at science articles with questions that boil down to "how can we make use of it to build something cool?". I look for explanations, even coarse, of what's going on - what are the critical conditions that need to be preserved for the phenomenon to appear? What are the hard constraints? So yeah, I prefer less artistic but confusing analogies.
Re:Researchers solve mystery of odd behavior by droplets of ...
by xbar on Friday November 20, 2020 @10:32AM
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I think you are right. These are marketing pieces, not journals. I do not think that's not bad at all. I am certain the journal article for this story satisfies demands of rigor.
But I like being able to take this piece to my 10 year-old who may focus her 5th grade science project on yogurt and getting her inspired to be curious about the fluids she plays with every day.
Re:Researchers solve mystery of odd behavior by droplets of ...
by teekert on Friday November 20, 2020 @03:18PM
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Exactly, I mean you can just add a small animation of how evaporation in 1 component is faster and pushes the two-bubble structure in one direction. It runs untill it gets too cold (endothermic reaction). Or something like that.. but correct ;)