{"id":8730,"date":"2011-05-18T03:00:41","date_gmt":"2011-05-18T08:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/?p=8730"},"modified":"2011-05-18T03:00:41","modified_gmt":"2011-05-18T08:00:41","slug":"swimming-upstream","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/8730","title":{"rendered":"Swimming Upstream"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.technologyreview.com\/blog\/arxiv\/26771\/\">Contaminants Can Flow Up Waterfalls, Say Physicists<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>They found that the leaves (and also chalk powder) were able to navigate upstream if the waterfall was less than about a centimetre in height. &#8220;For distances of the order of 1 cm or less, some of the floating particles eventually start to &#8220;climb up the stream&#8221;,&#8221; they say.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This apparently refers to particulates; solutes could presumably do this via diffusion to some extent without setting up a counterflow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Contaminants Can Flow Up Waterfalls, Say Physicists They found that the leaves (and also chalk powder) were able to navigate upstream if the waterfall was less than about a centimetre in height. &#8220;For distances of the order of 1 cm &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/8730\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8730","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8730","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8730"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8730\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8730"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8730"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8730"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}