Tag: Heat

“Braiding Sweetgrass,” and a Lesson in Extreme Heat

[ad_1] Listen and subscribe: Apple | Spotify | Google | Wherever You Listen Sign up to receive our weekly newsletter of the best New Yorker podcasts. Robin Wall Kimmerer is an unlikely literary star—a botanist by training, specializing in moss. But she set out to bridge the gap between Western science and Indigenous teaching with… Continue reading “Braiding Sweetgrass,” and a Lesson in Extreme Heat

What a Heat Wave Does to Your Body

[ad_1] On a sweltering day in June, 2019, David Kim, a third-year medical resident, was working in a Bay Area emergency department when he received a dispatch. The temperature outside was ninety-nine degrees—nearly unprecedented for Northern California—and a woman in her eighties had just been found lying on the ground in a parking lot. Her… Continue reading What a Heat Wave Does to Your Body

Surviving the Phoenix Heat | The New Yorker

[ad_1] For thirty-one days in a row, the temperature in Phoenix hit at least a hundred and ten degrees. It was one-nineteen on one day, one-eighteen on another, and one-seventeen on a couple of others. People got third-degree burns from sustained contact with pavement. The sun, not an oven, melted crayons for an art project.… Continue reading Surviving the Phoenix Heat | The New Yorker

‘Heartstopper’ Recap, Season 2, Episode 5: Heat

[ad_1] Heartstopper Heat Season 2 Episode 5 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** Photo: Netflix/Teddy Cavendish/Netflix “Heat” feels like exactly what it is: the middle chapter in season two’s Paris arc, a holiday where new relationships are born and old ones are tested. It’s a good episode, for sure, continuing the mostly-good vibes of the last… Continue reading ‘Heartstopper’ Recap, Season 2, Episode 5: Heat