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Click for video: The sport of curling lends itself to a discussion of physics in a video presented by NBC Learn in cooperation with the National Science Foundation. Click on the image to see the full video series. |
Science and sports aficionados are using the Winter Olympics as a teachable moment, for subjects ranging from the mechanics behind a curling freeze to the meteorology behind Vancouver’s non-freeze.
The geeks and the jocks may be on opposing sides in the battle for high-school supremacy. By the time you get to the Olympic-scale level of excellence, however, geeks and jocks definitely need each other.
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