Now I get to do something with that force scale I built. I had a request some time ago to talk about friction. Friction is surprisingly complicated. When two surfaces rub against each other, why is ...

Beth Harris, a Raleigh mom and long-time science educator, returns with a fun and easy experiment where kids can test their strength with friction. Beth Harris, a Raleigh mom and long-time science ...

Everybody knows how a yo-yo works. It's two disks mounted on an axle attached to a piece of string, and it goes up and down if you throw it right. But what about when the two disks and the axle aren't ...

(Nanowerk News) If you even bother to think about friction at all, you might think about rubbing your hands together to warm them up. But friction is a big problem out in the world. Parts that rub ...

Stanford’s Bob Sutton and Huggy Rao on how to boost efficiency and satisfaction while also improving innovation and decision-making. Organizations too often subject their employees and customers to ...

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Customer effort is both the most important and the most overlooked factor in building true customer loyalty. Unnecessary effort, a.k.a. friction, is particularly damaging. Starting a friction log will ...

Some months ago, I wrote about “Frictionless Learning”. The idea is that too many of us miss opportunities because we can’t get past the friction which we perceive or create in the process of trying ...