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How come ice is so slippery? asks Rebecca Anderson, a student in Brookville, NY. If you’ve ever careened into the sink on your way across the kitchen in the morning, you know a patch of spilled water is slippery. On a dry floor, the friction between your shoes and the floor’s surface keeps you from [...] How do the body’s own electric currents work? asks a reader. In “I Sing the Body Electric,” a story by Ray Bradbury, an “electric grandmother” arrives to take care of a family of motherless children. This “grandmother” was a robot, but human grandmothers–and children–are electric, too. In fact, every body is electric. Just as the [...] |
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