Re: scientific literacy

[herbgottlieb@juno.com]

 Martha Takats  writes:

> Re Alex Burr's message

> > In the Rocky Mountain News in an article about static electricity
> > an electronics salesman was quoted as saying "as we're standing
> > and talking right here, little ohms are jumping out of our bodies,
> > just little critters going everywhere..."
>
> Maybe they think Coulomb is the diminutive form of ohm?
We are always looking for ways to apply the concepts of physics to 
other areas, such as economics, advertising, merchandising and 
even love.  Now we learn that static electricity can lower someone's
resistance.  Hm-m-m-m-m.

Herb Gottlieb from New York City
(Where our Madison Avenue is the center of the country's advertising )