Daniel Engber is a columnist for Slate. The fourth-graders were unanimous: Quicksand doesn't scare them, not one bit. If you're a 9- or 10-year-old at the P.S. 29 elementary school in Brooklyn, N.Y., ...
Quicksand is not just the stuff of old Tarzan and Wild West movies. It’s a natural phenomenon lurking in Southern California, in or along creeks and rivers, dry washes and lakes where groundwater is ...