Slippery Science: The Physics of Ice
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Curling in Africa?
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.
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