Why do curling stones curl?

Some theories out there:

• microscopic roughness of the stone by researchers at Uppsala University published in Wear: The asymmetrical friction mechanism that puts the curl in the curling stone
• liquid friction idea from Canadian physicist curlers
• The Straight Dope Scottish glaciologists diss Canadian physicists
• Australian journal of physics
• Curling research from 2000
• Assessment of the Sliding Motion of Curling Delivery in Elite and Subelite Curlers
• 41 page paper
• Science of sweeping
• Scottish curling ice group
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