What makes some things get cold and other things get hot in the same room at the same time?

Hello kiddos,

This is Professor Mordy Maven, Thinker, Wonderer, and Figure-Outer of all things Science-ish. What that basically means is I try really hard to figure stuff out. I do the hard work, so you don’t have to!

The other day, I woke up as hungry as a lion. I raced down the stairs to discover my loving and wonderful mother standing in the kitchen. “Hungry, Mordy?” she asked. “ROOOAAARRR!” I responded. (Actually, I said, Yeah, Ma. But my stomach grumbled so loud it sounded like I was roaring.)

My mother realized that the situation was serious. She quickly whipped up two eggs just the way I like them, with pineapple chunks, fried mushrooms, and Gouda cheese. (Hey, I don’t judge what you eat! Don’t judge me either.) Then she poured me a tall glass of cold, frothy milk.

I was all ready to sit down and dig in when I suddenly remembered that I’d left my electromagnoscopic fidget spinner pop-it in my room and I’d promised that I would bring it to school to show Chaim. I left the food on the table and ran back upstairs to find it.

I was almost 100 percent sure that I had left it on my night table, but it wasn’t there. I rummaged around in my drawers, looked in my closet, searched in my bookcase and eventually found it under my bed wrapped carefully in my sister’s Shabbos robe to protect it from dust. Then I ran back down to my delicious breakfast.

I took a quick bite of my hot, steaming eggs and…. they were cold. I spit them out and reached for my cold, frothy milk, but it was warm!! My yummy delicious breakfast… WAS RUINED!!! That got me wondering — how is it possible that my milk got warm while my eggs got cold?

Here are some fascinating facts about temperature:

Rubber bands last longer when they’re kept refrigerated. Weird, right?

When lightning strikes it can reach up to 54,000 degrees Fahrenheit (3,000 degrees Celsius)! YOWZA!!

The coldest city in the world is Yakutsk in Siberia, where temperatures sometimes reach minus degrees Fahrenheit. I bet they never get warm eggs there!