It’s not any snake, but some species that are adapted to living on trees. It’s also not really flying. Gliding would describe what they do better. As they jump, they flatten their body and make slither movements through the air, gliding maybe at a 45 angle downwards.

Interesting. Even so much that after a 14 hour road trip I read a little more about it.

The first thought was “hearing?” but then I remembered that I heard electricity before, standing next to a transformer.

According to what I read this is something different, though. High voltage is audible due to ionized air in close vicinity, while home appliances can be audible due to AC power shifting magnetic fields and that can make internal components vibrate.

Anecdotally, I believe I have heard close hitting lightnings - just before happening - in my power grid.

Sounds plausible, both. I also like to just chew things.

Didn’t read the article, but there was the worry mentioned in the title, that the rodents could have messed with the electrical wiring.

Can anybody explain why mice like wires so much? Do they look like worms to them or do they have a electrocution kink or can they sense electricity somehow or something? Genuinely interested.

Aren’t these changes, because there are just have bones to look at, so skin properties etc are a guessing game?

But how did that jaw bone double in length in 2001? Was the skull a missing part until then?

As I understood it, the dashed line is just the 35°C wet bulb temperature line.

I think it’s the “old assumed border of survivability” and don’t know if it is based solely on mathematics or on other experiments as well.

I also don’t know on how many individuals the new line is based and what age group the older people one is.

The article is about an experiment, where people are exposed to 35°C wet bulb temperatures, but in different settings. Sometimes lower temperatures but higher humidity, sometimes vise versa, but always 35°C wet bulb temperature.

So far the assumption was, that humans can’t survive a 35°C wet bulb temperature for longer than 6 hours. And at current warming this is unlikely to be naturally the case within this century.

However the experiment gives hints to believe that humans can’t survive at lower wet bulb temperatures either. It looks like with lower temperatures and higher humidity, humans can get very close to that 35°C wet bulb temperature, however people seem to struggle more with higher temperatures and lower humidity.

A possible explanation could be, that while more sweat evaporates in lower humidity, the body has a limit for how much sweat it can produce. And if you keep raising the temperature, that the human body simply can’t produce enough sweat to cool itself.

That’s pretty much what I took away from the article. They mentioned they experiment with several people, however the article was mainly about on person in the experiment, a 30ish year old, athletic male.

Edit: add some graphs from the article. Sorry for low quality, but as you said, the layout is quite atrocious and on my phone it keeps jumping around on it’s own, so I lost patience.

Ironically education is a good way for people not to radicalize, I believe.

Someone help this poor bear get some education!

Totally agree. I just witnessed my sister delivering her baby a few days back.

I see, you’re referring to that specific album. It’s just that extremely experimental including all kinds of sounds and styles that it seems very difficult to say what genre it is.

Thank you for that small interaction, it lead me to change my last night’s plans, getting my headphones out and listen to Mr Bungle and other Mike Patton bands like FNM and Fantomas. Was a great night!

In case you didn’t know, there are some badass recordings from earlier days or cut together tapes like this one.

I don’t know about the other artists, but why remove Mr Bungle? In my opinion they’re metal af!

I’m curious. What happens to the medium? Does it simply get pushed aside? Or pushed along? Or will it eat up some energy and react to something else?

Hate it, when you’re just going with the flow doing nobody any harm and the pigs appear and want to drug check you.

Maybe it’s enough to be highly intoxicated when outdoors. 🤷‍♂️

“luckily”

They are. They use their neck and head like a mace. (YouTube)

I also thought about wet bulb and checked the humidity in Delhi, which seems to be just 7 % or so. According to wet bulb calculators that’s still good, like around 23 °C wet bulb.

Interestingly the wet bulb temperature calculators that I tried only work until 50 °C, so that was what I put in.

At 50 °C you need about 35 % humidity to get to 35 °C wet bulb.

Regarding your second point: If I’m not mistaken, the hottest month in the region is around May. The temperature is influenced by monsoons, and although the sun peaks higher in summer, it is generally also more cloudy and rain cools of the surface. That’s why usually temperatures peak just before rain season.

Thank you!

Do you have a link to source of that? I’m pretty sure there are many sensors measuring the temperatures in a city that size.