Tag: Dr. Suess

I was sitting around a few days ago, chewing the fat with a buddy of mine, whom I’ll call Tim (not his real name), and the topic of weather came up. This inevitably led to a post that I wrote years ago, even before the Emedics days.

Here in The Department of Lateral Thinking we (well me, mostly) think laterally about a lot of stuff including Materials Science.  For those of you who don’t know, Materials Science is the study of materials, and this includes materials like Oobleck. 

Anyone who has ever been a child whose parents read Dr. Suess books (and also read them to their kids) knows that Oobleck was the tenacious  green goo that fell out of the sky after bored King Derwin commissioned his magicians to conjure up a new kind of weather:

A young lad named Bartholomew played a key role in the narrative as he finally had to go back to the magicians to undo their spell. Things were getting too sticky.

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