Word: warmness
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...Scott. It seems to be more prevalent with people who are freezing to death very quickly - say, a mountaineer who's lost. He still has plenty of food, but it's so cold that his body can't change the food into glycogen long enough to keep him warm and functional. Eventually his body temperature crashes very quickly. (Read about Greenland's melting...
...working on a book now with the working title Heat: A Natural and Unnatural History. It takes the other direction on the thermometer and starts out looking at extreme heat with hydrogen-weapons testing that occurred here in Alaska, and works through things like the development of warm-bloodedness in animals, forest fires and that sort of thing. (See TIME's top 10 Alaskans...
...with swimming. Or rather, the novel isn't. Swimming really is like breathing for Pip--so integral to her life that it goes virtually unnarrated. What that means for readers is that we can relate to her; she may be amphibious to the outside world, but inside she's warm-blooded...
...banks that were capable of doing the most lending to individuals didn't actually do it. We had to wait until Bank of America, for instance, got into business and a lot of the companies like Household Finance that started making consumer loans for this thing to actually warm...
...research, published in the journal Nature, would suggest that the mass movement of marine animals - even tiny zooplankton like krill - may play a significant role in churning the ocean. It may help mix cooler water with warm, and disperse salts, nutrients and pollutants across the various layers of the ocean, which is critical to the strength of ocean currents and the health of the marine ecosystems. Although ocean-mixing is largely attributed to winds and ocean tides, scientists say those factors cannot account for all the energy required to power, for example, the complete circulation of cold and warm water...