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The
"Hot Chocolate Effect"
by Shawn Carlson
So far as I know, this effect was first
described by my friend and colleague Frank
Crawford. Frank was a professor of physics
at UC Berkeley, and a very colorful character.
Sometime I should tell everyone the story
of how he got shot down over occupied Europe
during World War II and spent the next few
months evading the Nazis to rejoin his unit
in England. His adventures (especially his
encounters with lovely French lasses in
the underground, which he bragged about
incessantly) could have made for a best-selling
biography. More.
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