Sloshing Around in my Car

It's very strange to feel air sloshing around while driving. When making a hard turn with the heater on, the change of air currents is especially noticeable.

Watched Pots Boil More Slowly

The saying "a watched pot never boils" is obviously untrue, however, I realized that a watched pot will boil more slowly, all other things being equal.

Why is this? Your pupil appears black because very few photons are reflected out of the interior of your eye, especially compared to the iris and sclera. By watching a pot, you are allowing the maximum amount of photons from the pot into your pupil (compared to looking away). This, in turn, means that fewer photons are reflected back at the pot. Since the pot is not 100% reflective, it will absorb some of the photons which hit it and convert that energy to heat.

Therefore, a watched pot will receive slightly less energy, causing it to take an infinitesimally longer amount of time to boil.

Museums

Museums are encyclopedias with an emphasis on examples.

Klompen and Onomatopoeia

I love that "klompen" is both the name of dutch wooden shoes AND what you do when you wear them.

Is it really Onomatopoeia? Or do we just associate "clomp" with the sound, because of the name of the shoes? Does the sound inform the word or the word inform the sound?