Junk Drawer

Ahoy!  Thar’s gold in that junk drawer! This is Sandra Tsing Loh with the Loh Down on Science… saying… At least keys, old cell phones, those weird little IKEA joints to—argh!—assemble your Bilsbo’s. All are metal, of increasing demand today, and expensive to mine. Enterprising? You could be like Vancouver’s

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Freezing Hot

Iced water stalactites

Sick of waiting for your ice cubes to freeze? Maybe the water is too cold! This is Sandra Tsing Loh with the Loh Down on Science. Did you know that hot water FREEZES much faster than cold water? This paradox was first observed by Aristotle centuries ago. It became known

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