Greg Kestin: What's going on here? Every time I throw the ball straight, it seems to bend to the side. No matter what I throw, no matter how straight I throw it, the ball seems to be curving. Maybe it ...

The rotation of the earth has major, fundamental effects on the motion of fluids on the planet. Fluid motion is what we would call "decoupled" from, or only weakly coupled, to the solid earth. Wind ...