I have an oxygen hose connected here.

For other people, it's a guy with a garden hose.

If you press on a hose pipe in a sealed system, it bulges someplace else.

You just drive to the nearest lake, stick your hose in it, and you've got your car filled up.

Using this technology, the specialists at UCLA Medical Center were able to identify where that compression in the hose pipe was occurring.

People thought that was crazy. A coat on a fence would make them balk, shadows would make them balk, a hose on the floor ...

If your high pressure hose pipe, or your high pressure hydraulic line, bulges a little, you just wrap some tape around the outside of it.

The wackiest plan and I'm not making this up would put what is essentially a garden hose 18 and a half miles high into the sky, suspended by balloons, to spew sulfur dioxide.

Five months earlier, more than 200 gallons of oil had spilled into the sea at Pockwood Pond, Tortola, during a ship to shore hose operation from an oil tanker to a gas station.

Light water reactors (LWRs) like those at Fukushima, which use water as a primary coolant, produce most of the world s nuclear power. The huge quantities of local water that LWRs consume for their operations become hot water outflows, which are pumped back into rivers, lakes, and oceans.

SINGAPORE Japan s nuclear crisis is a nightmare, but it is not an anomaly. In fact, it is only the latest in a long line of nuclear accidents involving meltdowns, explosions, fires, and loss of coolant accidents that have occurred during both normal operation and emergency conditions, such as droughts and earthquakes.

For the Fukushima nuclear power plant, a 1,000 year flood and ordinarily innocuous design defects combined to deprive the reactors of circulating water coolant and cause serious radiation leaks. In financial markets, an unexpected collapse in real estate securities and design defects in the derivatives and repo markets combined to damage core financial institutions ability make good on their payment obligations.

Fortunately, organized Muslim leaders so far have not aggravated the rioting. Of course, the government s reduction of community policing in favor of paramilitary forces stationed in quasi military barracks, and the Minister of Interior s description of the young rioters as scum who should be washed away with an industrial power hose, has not helped.

A good narrative is a great source of soft power, and the first rule that fiction writers learn about good narrative is to show, not tell. Franklin Roosevelt used the fictional story of lending a garden hose to a neighbor whose house was on fire to explain his complex lend lease program to the American people before World War II.

So what we've done is actually gone up to tag salmon shark in Alaska, met salmon shark on their home territory, followed them catching salmon and then went in and figured out that, if we take a salmon and put it on a line, we can actually take up a salmon shark This is the cousin of the white shark and very carefully note, I say very carefully, we can actually keep it calm, put a hose in its mouth, keep it off the deck and then tag it with a satellite tag.