Re: Hot vs. Cold

[ven@physics.purdue.edu (Van E. Neie)]

> somewhat akin to the claim that toilet water vortices
> are caused by the Coriolis effect and go the other way in the
> Argentine.

According to a friend, revolving doors in Australia turn in the opposite
direction to those in North America!  (After he let that soak in for a bit,
he commented that people enter the buildings to the left, as in Britain and
other places where they also drive on the left.)

Van Neie

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