{"id":7051,"date":"2016-12-07T23:26:31","date_gmt":"2016-12-08T05:26:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=7051"},"modified":"2016-12-07T23:26:31","modified_gmt":"2016-12-08T05:26:31","slug":"video-of-the-day-18","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2016\/12\/07\/video-of-the-day-18\/","title":{"rendered":"Video of the Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>Stanford<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0scientists are trying to work out how birds fly:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Stanford researchers debunk popular flight models by flying birds through lasers\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/OSAdkAI3hgc?start=115&#038;feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>From the <a href=\"http:\/\/news.stanford.edu\/2016\/12\/05\/birds-flying-laser-light-reveal-faults-flight-research\/\" target=\"_blank\">press statement<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>As a graduate student working with Stanford mechanical engineer <a href=\"https:\/\/profiles.stanford.edu\/david-lentink\" data-vivaldi-spatnav-clickable=\"1\">David Lentink<\/a>, Eric Gutierrez trained this member of the second smallest parrot species in order to precisely measure the vortices it creates during flight. Their results, published in the Dec. 6 issue of <a href=\"http:\/\/iopscience.iop.org\/article\/10.1088\/1748-3190\/12\/1\/016004\" data-vivaldi-spatnav-clickable=\"1\"><em>Bioinspiration and Biomimetics<\/em><\/a>, help explain the way animals generate enough lift to fly and could have implications for how flying robots and drones are designed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe goal of our study was to compare very commonly used models in the literature to figure out how much lift a bird, or other flying animal, generates based off its wake,\u201d said Diana Chin, a graduate student in the Lentink lab and co-author of the study. \u201cWhat we found was that all three models we tried out were very inaccurate because they make assumptions that aren\u2019t necessarily true.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Fortunately, it only took a goggle-eyed mini-monster to show them the way.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stanford\u00a0scientists are trying to work out how birds fly: From the press statement: As a graduate student working with Stanford mechanical engineer David Lentink, Eric Gutierrez trained this member of the second smallest parrot species in order to precisely measure the vortices it creates during flight. Their results, published in \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2016\/12\/07\/video-of-the-day-18\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7051","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7051","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7051"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7051\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7052,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7051\/revisions\/7052"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7051"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7051"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7051"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}