SciShow Tangents23 Feb 2021

Climate Control

This episode of SciShow Tangents was created in partnership with Bill Gates, inspired by his new book “How To Avoid A Climate Disaster,” available now. To learn more, visit http://gatesnot.es/3qNsH4k

From roaring fires to air conditioners to fuzzy slippers, humans have a knack for inventing things to keep them at just the right temperature. Unfortunately, they also have a knack for messing up the temperature of the planet…

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[Fact Off]

Skinner Air Crib

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1037/1089-2680.3.3.155

https://www.psychologicalscience.org/observer/skinner-air-crib

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/innovation/history-cribs-other-brilliant-bizarre-inventions-getting-babies-to-sleep-180972138/

https://psychology.fas.harvard.edu/people/b-f-skinner

Mountain goat cooling

https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0225456

https://www.vice.com/en/article/epggvp/americas-iconic-mountain-goats-are-being-threatened-by-melting-ice-and-snow

https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2019-12/wcs-mga121019.php

[Ask the Science Couch]

Varied climates on planets

https://climate.nasa.gov/news/2948/milankovitch-orbital-cycles-and-their-role-in-earths-climate/

https://www.universetoday.com/35796/atmosphere-of-the-planets/

[Butt One More Thing]

Racecar butt air conditioning

https://jalopnik.com/the-nismo-gt-r-gt3-has-air-conditioning-for-your-butt-1682925080

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