Hi JustMe: You mention that boiling the water will aerate it. Actually, just the opposite is true: Heating the water drives out the dissolved air, since gases are more soluble in cold liquid than hot liquid. Think of a carbonated soda, which is bubbly when it comes out of the fridge, but goes flat as it warms up.

The bubbles you see in water at a roiling boil is actually water vapour, the water itself turned to gas. If this gas cools it just becomes liquid water again. When you let boiled water cool down to drinking temperature it has a peculiar flat taste, which I think is because it has less dissolved air than fresh water from a mountain stream.  If you vigorously stir previously boiled water with a whisk it'll re-aerate it, and remove some of that peculiar flat taste.

Thanx for the episode!

--Bob, who needs to record his own HPR episode