i am amused! i've just been asked, in the kitchen, for the twentieth time this semester, how my rice cooker works. it just does, i say. the physicist laughs and laughs when she heard that. it rather reminds me of julian's first stage of the history of science - it's a magic pot! - how does it know when the water is gone? how does it know when the rice is cooked? it just does! i say again. how very intellectually uncurious of me. ah well. cindy?