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  2. File:The Engineering of the Drinking Bird.webm - Wikipedia

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    English: Bill reveals the operation and engineering design underlying the famous drinking bird toy. In this video he explores the role played by the water the bird "drinks," shows what is under the bird's hat and demonstrates that it can operate using heat from a light bulb or by "drinking" whiskey.

  3. Drinking bird - Wikipedia

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    Video of a Drinking Bird. The drinking bird is a heat engine that exploits a temperature difference to convert heat energy to a pressure difference within the device, and performs mechanical work. Like all heat engines, the drinking bird works through a thermodynamic cycle. The initial state of the system is a bird with a wet head oriented ...

  4. Eka Pada Rajakapotasana - Wikipedia

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    In Aerial yoga, Flying Pigeon Pose is a hammock-supported variant with one foot hooked across the front of the hammock. [12] The pose can be practised with the rear knee against a wall, the lower leg vertical with a strap around the foot, working towards the full pose. The strap is grasped with both hands, the arms reversed so that the elbows ...

  5. List of asanas - Wikipedia

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    A single asana is listed for each main pose, whether or not there are variations. Thus for Sirsasana (Yoga headstand), only one pose is illustrated, although the pose can be varied by moving the legs apart sideways or front-and-back, by lowering one leg to the floor, by folding the legs into lotus posture, by turning the hips to one side, by placing the hands differently on the ground, and so on.

  6. Asana - Wikipedia

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    An āsana (Sanskrit: आसन) is a body posture, originally and still a general term for a sitting meditation pose, [1] and later extended in hatha yoga and modern yoga as exercise, to any type of position, adding reclining, standing, inverted, twisting, and balancing poses.

  7. Bakasana - Wikipedia

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    Bakasana (Crane pose) (Sanskrit: बकासन, IAST: bakāsana), and the similar Kakasana (Crow pose) (Sanskrit: काकासन, IAST: kākasana) are balancing asanas in hatha yoga and modern yoga as exercise. [1] In all variations, these are arm balancing poses in which hands are planted on the floor, shins rest upon upper arms, and ...

  8. Postures of Bikram Yoga - Wikipedia

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    The postures include 24 asanas (poses in modern yoga as exercise), one pranayama breathing exercise, and one shatkarma, a purification making use of forced breathing. Bikram Yoga was devised by Bikram Choudhury around 1971 when he moved to America.

  9. List of Internet challenges - Wikipedia

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    The challenge is recorded and posted on YouTube or other forms of social media. [49] [50] [51] This challenge has caused many burns as a result. [48] Yoga Challenge – A continuing YouTube video trend that first went viral during the summer of 2014 involving participants who attempt to perform a series of acroyoga poses that are taken from the ...