Little Scientist - 3: Ice, Ice, Baby!
As a huge Calvin and Hobbes fan, I’ve absolutely loved this strip: The idea, the drawings, the choice of words… it’s what they call perfection. As a parent, on the other hand, I’ve shuddered at the prospect of my daughter being that way. And then, I got a chance to do exactly that comparison! She’s 6 now, the same as Calvin. And the incident in question too involved ice melting! Recently, she was doing this experiment described in one of those S.T.E.M. (Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths) kits involving 3 ice cubes. (You know what they say about catching them young, right?) Anyway, here’s the experiment: you leave the first ice cube as-is; on the second one, you put salt; and on the last one, you put sugar. And then she sat back to observe: which one melts the fastest? (You may think this is as interesting as watching grass grow, but you can make a kid interested in anything by throwing in the words “race”, “first” and “winner”!) Outcome: the one with sa