Spinning Toilets, Stingrays, and St. Thomas Shores - Part 4
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In episode 127 of I Hate Talking, the hosts revisit the Coriolis effect after a previous discussion about the direction of a spiral staircase at Blackbeard’s Castle. They separate fact from fiction, explaining that Earth’s rotation affects large-scale moving systems such as weather patterns, ocean currents, and hurricanes—but does not determine which way water spins in toilets or household sinks. They also discuss French mathematician Gaspard-Gustave de Coriolis, whose work on rotating systems gave the effect its name, and reflect on the disappointing discovery that the…
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