FWIW
Even in humans, a correlation between body temperature and lifespan has been reported. Normal human body temperature is between 36.5 and 37 degrees Celsius. While an acute drop in body temperature below 35 degrees leads to hypothermia, human body temperature fluctuates slightly during the day and even reaches a cool 36 degrees during sleep. Interestingly, a previous study reported that human body temperature has steadily declined by 0.03 degrees Celsius per decade since the Industrial Revolution, suggesting a possible link to the progressive increase in human life expectancy over the last 160 years.
I think it’s likely the causation is the other way around, in the past, people were more likely to have low-grade infections that slightly increased their body temp and otherwise put a strain on the system.
Maybe.
But the experimental evidence, including in mammals, is pretty good that causation seems to go from higher body temperature to shorter life and cooler with longer.
My assumption was that such was related to metabolic rate, but that article suggests not.
Dunno but the discussion here reminded me of this stuff.
Great shirt. I need one.
And yes, @thorny_locust’s point is very true.
A challenge w my not-quite-ex-wife (1 more week!) was here in warm FL she’d dress heavily at home and want the AC blasting and I’d want to dress lightly and have almost no AC.
In both our cases our clothing choices increased our incompatibility. Which was already about 5F when we dressed the same.
I believe the context is topology of digestive systems.
If my mother were still alive, I’d have her birthday present.
(She lived to 89, for what that’s worth in the statistics.)
In Florida, the battle between my weak AC unit (admitted to me by the head maintenance guy in a moment of frankness) and the summer temps would result in the floor being several degrees cooler than the height of the thermostat, not helped by my unit facing west. I had to aim a fan from the carpet to the thermostat to blow the cooler air up to the thing, else the thing would have run all day long and even after the sun went down.
Couldn’t you just have turned the thermostat down a bit?
Distracting myself from election data, @puzzlegal, it’s cool to be cool. Some prospective human data:
Several demographic factors were linked to individual level temperature, with older people the coolest (–0.021°C for every decade, P<0.001) and African-American women the hottest (versus white men: 0.052°C, P<0.001). Several comorbidities were linked to lower temperature (eg, hypothyroidism: –0.013°C, P=0.01) or higher temperature (eg, cancer: 0.020, P<0.001), as were physiological measurements (eg, body mass index: 0.002 per m/kg2, P<0.001). Overall, measured factors collectively explained only 8.2% of individual temperature variation. Despite this, unexplained temperature variation was a significant predictor of subsequent mortality: controlling for all measured factors, an increase of 0.149°C (1 SD of individual temperature in the data) was linked to 8.4% higher one year mortality (P=0.014).
Bolding mine.
The durned thing was so inefficient that turning it down couldn’t cool things down further at all on especially hot and sunny days; it would just keep running all day long until it burned itself out. Turning it up (by contrast) just meant sweating myself to death every night as I tossed and turned. The issue is that the cooler air close to the floor was in an eternal battle with the hotter air nearer the ceiling, with the frontal boundary never reaching the thermostat, tho running the ceiling fan helped a bit (the floor fan was still a better choice).
My Cleveland flat’s AC AND heater are immensely more efficient and powerful, and combined with the superior insulation all around thanks to the winters here, my bills here have been MUCH lower than in Florida.
Much of 1970s & prior construction in booming FL, CA, and AZ were woefully energy inefficient. Lousy or absent insulation, leaky windows & doors, undersized HVAC systems, no thought to vent or thermostat placement or sizing, etc.
There was enough of a land rush on, and energy was cheap enough, that nobody gave a thought to efficiency or to adequacy.
but then again, who doesn’t love a temp. measuring system which dynamically changes its output with altitude.
… or air-pressure
The other day, I surpresed Wifey - by no means the scientific type - using a scale expanding device outside of a lab and in our own house.
Who would have thinked?
Not wuite, since STP is part of the definition. Now. Admittedly not when it was being defined originally a couple hundred years ago.
Pretty much standards get more rigorously defined when the need arises. As long as “the temperature of boiling water” was close enough for purposes that was fine. As soon as <1° accuracy started to make a difference they added the stipulation of standard atmospheric pressure. Then the purity standard of the water, etc.
Hmmmm.
Oil is at the time of this posting selling for $67.26 per 42-gallon barrel, or $1.60 per gallon.
I’m currently sitting in a hotel room with two 1/2 liter bottles of Aquafina water. If I crack one of them open, I’ll be charged $6.00 when I check out. Price (retail): $45.42 per gallon.
So by this one highly cherry-picked measure, the water is over 28 times more valuable than the oil. Perhaps it’s the water, rather than the free fuel, that you can sell for a lot of money instead?
Location, location, location.
We’re also looking into branching out into the mining and fracking industries.