Re: Hot vs. Cold

["Margaret Mazzolini" <mmazzolini@swin.edu.au>]

Yep, we tend to preferentially pull the other leg, too.

Incidentally,  water-down-the-plug-hole going in the opposite 
sense depending on which hemisphere you are in seems to be a bit of 
an urban (or bathroom?) myth too. Apparently, in practice,
 boundary effects and initial  conditions generally  count 
for a lot more than the coriolis effect on such a small area of 
water.

Antipodeanly yours
Margaret Mazzolini
> >
>
> 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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