Chapter 4:

Striking At The Heat In The Night

To access the pdf file for all the video links and journal citations for the items in the book, click on the pdf icon for "Chapter References & Comments” at the top of the page, next to Armando Armadillo. (Go to www.Adobe.com for a free pdf reader.) To access the updates and new items (not in the book), click on any "update" or "new" in the following list.

• 4.1 Dead rattlesnakes  update Jun 2009
• 4.2 Fire-detecting beetles
• 4.3 Bees kill hornet   update Oct 2007
• 4.4 Huddling animals   update Feb 2009
• 4.5 Space walking without a spacesuit    update Jan 2014
• 4.6 Drops on a hot skillet, fingers in molten lead    update Nov 2006  Apr 2007  May 2007
• 4.7 Short Story: A rather dreadful swallow
• 4.8 Walking over hot coals
• 4.9 Short Story: Fire-walking accounts
• 4.10 Freezing and supercooling water
• 4.11 Eating sea ice     update Oct 2006
• 4.12 Cooling rates of initially hot and warm water  update Jul 2009
• 4.13 Water frozen by the sky
• 4.14 Saving the stored vegetables with a tub of water
• 4.15 Spraying an orchard to preventing freezing
• 4.16 Throwing hot water into very cold air    update Feb 2008
• 4.17 Icicles    update Jan 2007   Feb 2011
• 4.18 Ice dams at eaves     update May 2012
• 4.19 Rime ice and glaze ice on cables
• 4.20 Ice spikes and other ice formations  update Aug 2010
• 4.21 Cloudy ice cubes
• 4.22 Figures inside melting ice
• 4.23 Freezing of ponds and lakes
• 4.24 Freezing carbonated drinks   update Dec 2008
• 4.25 Bursting pipes
• 4.26 Touching or licking a cold pipe  update Mar 2010
• 4.27 Bumps in winter, pingos in permafrost
• 4.28 Arctic ice polygons
• 4.29 Growing stones in a garden, and patterned ground
• 4.30 Ploughing boulders
• 4.31 Short Story: Dead-cat bomb and a frozen disappearance
• 4.32 Snowflake formation
• 4.33 Skiing
• 4.34 Ice skating and making a snowball
• 4.35 Ice walking
• 4.36 Igloos
• 4.37 Snowrollers     update Jan 2008
• 4.38 Snow avalanche
• 4.39 Patterns formed by melting snow
• 4.40 Salting icy sidewalks
• 4.41 Homemade ice cream
• 4.42 Drinking hot coffee, eating hot pizza
• 4.43 Boiling water
• 4.44 Boiling an egg
• 4.45 Cooking in a stove or over flames
• 4.46 Campfire cooking
• 4.47 Cooking pizza
• 4.48 Heating in a microwave oven     update June 2013
• 4.49 Popping popcorn   update Feb 2012
• 4.50 Cooking scrambled eggs
• 4.51 Geysers and coffee percolators
• 4.52 Toy putt-putt boat   update Jan 2011
• 4.53 Thermal effects on lengths
• 4.54 Collapse of railroad storage tank    update Feb 2009
• 4.55 Drying of hanging laundry
• 4.56 Warm coats
• 4.57 Warm plants
• 4.58 Polar-bear hairs
• 4.59 Black robes and black sheep in the desert
• 4.60 Cooling rate of a cup of coffee
• 4.61 Cool water from porous pottery    update Nov 2010
• 4.62 Dunking bird
• 4.63 Short Story: Large dunking birds
• 4.64 Heat pipes and potato stickers
• 4.65 Foggy mirrors
• 4.66 Condensation on eyeglasses
• 4.67 Water collection in arid regions
• 4.68 Mud cracks
• 4.69 Inflating juice containers on airplanes
• 4.70 Inflating bubbles and balloons
• 4.71 Making cakes at high altitudes
• 4.72 Champagne in a tunnel
• 4.73 Short story: Stuck in a bottle
• 4.74 Wintertime thunder
• 4.75 Stack plumes
• 4.76 Smoke signals and mushroom clouds
• 4.77 Fire in a fireplace
• 4.78 A candle flame  update Mar 2011
• 4.79 Spraying a fire
• 4.80 Cooking oil fires     update Nov 2007
• 4.81 Brush fires and forest fires
• 4.82 Firestorms    update Oct 2012
• 4.83 Temperature regulation in mounds and buildings
• 4.84 Warmth of greenhouses and closed cars
• 4.85 Heat islands
• 4.86 Rubber-band thermodynamics
• 4.87 The foehn and the chinook
• 4.88 The boiling water ordeal
• 4.89 Energy in a heated room
• 4.90 Icehouse orientation
• 4.91 A radiometer toy and its reversal
• 4.92 Water wells and storms
• 4.93 Insect and shrimp plumes       Click on new to get the following new items (not in the book)
• 4.94 Rubber bands and the direction of time  Oct 2006
• 4.95 Tunnel fires   Jan 2007
• 4.96 Frost circles and the danger of sinkholes  Jan 2007
• 4.97 Cooking on sidewalks and dashboards   Aug 2007
• 4.98 Baked Alaska and frozen Florida   Dec 2007
• 4.99 A cartoon, MIT, and corn starch  Feb 2010
• 4.101 Cell phones popping popcorn  Mar 2010
• 4.102 Lava lamps  July 2010
• 4.103 Pub trick --- making a coin rattle  Sep 2010
• 4.104 Pub trick --- lifting shot glass with the palm  Sep 2011
• 4.105 Pub trick --- burnt wood stick   Mar 2012
• 4.106 Solar prominences and filaments   Feb 2012
• 4.107 Setting fire to an orange    July 2012
• 4.108 Pub trick --- wine moving up into an inverted glass     Apr 2013   
• 4.109 Exploding manholes    May 2013
• 4.110 Pub trick -- picking up a shot glass with your hand    Nov 2012
• 4.111 Window frost flowers   Feb 2014