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Books
Have Refrigerators Spoiled Everything?
FROSTBITE: How Refrigeration Changed Our Food, Our Planet, and Ourselves,byNicola Twilley Consider the improbable fact of the supermarket banana. In “Frostbite,” an exploration of the vast system known as the cold chain, the journalist Nicola Twilley ...
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Science
Why You Can Hear the Temperature of Water
A science video maker in China couldn’t find a good explanation for why hot and cold water sound different, so he did his own research and published it.
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US
Sweating Buckets, and Loving It: Minnesotans and Their Saunas
ACROSS THE COUNTRY Sweating Buckets, and Loving It: Minnesotans and Their Saunas Saunas in the state, part of a tradition with roots in the 1800s, have been especially popular since the pandemic as more people seek a communal experience. Sauna ...
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World
Cold Snap Grips China After Snow in Beijing Causes Havoc
President Xi Jinping urged “all-out efforts” to ensure safety amid wintry conditions after a subway crash left hundreds injured in the capital.
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Newyork
Across the Northeast, Officials Warn of a Dangerous Arctic Blast
Cold temperatures and fierce winds are expected to intensify throughout Friday and into Saturday.
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World
Asia Has Had a Really Cold Month, Courtesy of the Polar Vortex
Mohe, China’s northernmost city, recorded a temperature of minus 63.4 degrees Fahrenheit this week. That was the coldest in its recorded history, and cold enough to cause hypothermia within minutes in anyone who wasn’t dressed properly. “It has never ...