Cling has been around for at least 500 years and started in Scotland. It's relatively big in New Zealand as well, where we had a lot of Scottish settlers down at the bottom of the South Island. Mother Nature just organically produces this pebbling, these ice bumps, as Laurie calls it. The teams even have like these wooly hats with the bubble on them that they still wear. So it's still very much seen as a Scottish sport.
What makes ice slippery? Neil deGrasse Tyson and co-hosts Chuck Nice and Gary O’Reilly uncover the complex physics of ice and cool facts we’re still learning about it with physicist and author, Laurie Winkless.
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