"My Prof Got Run Over by an iPod"

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Liquid mountaineering.

Photo source.

Curiouser and curiouser...

Intrigued by your interests on ScienceBlogs, I did an experiment.

I took a look at what you were searching for a year ago, during the month of June 2010 and uncovered some curious things. As in my last post {Inquiring Readers Want to Know: "Why Is My Poop Green?}, I focused on your top 500 keywords (out of 343,309.) Lists such as these could provide endless possibilities of topics for blog posts. There's simply not enough time - anyone want to help write some of these?

  • My prof got run over by an iPod
  • Liquid mountaineering
  • Goats on fire
  • The god equation
  • Crackergate
  • Fecal transplant
  • Obesity panacea
  • Micronaps
  • Dr. Emoto fraud
  • Starfart
  • Organic cigarettes (Is that akin to organic dry cleaning?)
  • Perfectionism and depression
  • Worst physics article ever written
  • The ultimate proof of creationism
  • Methyl iodide strawberries
  • Failed postdoc

More like this

Last week Ben Young Landis, the 2010 editor, and I had a great first meeting about Open Lab and how we are going to do the whole thing this year. In the meantime, dig through your archives or the archives of other blogs you like and submit the best posts. The Submission form is here. Under the fold…
The list is growing fast - check the submissions to date and get inspired to submit something of your own - an essay, a poem, a cartoon or original art. The Submission form is here so you can get started. Under the fold are entries so far, as well as buttons and the bookmarklet. The instructions…
The list is growing fast - check the submissions to date and get inspired to submit something of your own - an essay, a poem, a cartoon or original art. The Submission form is here so you can get started. Under the fold are entries so far, as well as buttons and the bookmarklet. The instructions…
The list is growing fast - check the submissions to date and get inspired to submit something of your own - an essay, a poem, a cartoon or original art. The Submission form is here so you can get started. Under the fold are entries so far, as well as buttons and the bookmarklet. The instructions…

No such thing as liquid mountaineering. The videos were made by placing a bridge made out of plexiglass or another see-through material under the water, and using a camera angle that did not show the bridge. The guys then ran across the bridge, making it look like they were walking on water.

Mythbusters recreated this on their show a few months back.