Why Is It Slippery?

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Turbulence is the kind of like beautiful thing that we should never figure out. I find there's comfort in the fact that the captain in his Chuck Yeager voice is like a experience and a little bit of turbulence. There's something about ice that makes us able to skate on it. If we understand why ice is slippery, we can understand a little bit better how glaciers move.

Our game show is back! This week, Avery Trufelman, host of the Articles of Interest podcast, tries to guess which of these three mysteries of movement have been solved and which are still unexplainable.

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