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• https://curiosity.com/topics/you-can-zoom-in-on-a-fractal-forever-curiosity?utm_source=androidapp

  

  Nadja Bester

  Aug 8, 2017
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  Nadja Bester

  

  How Air-Conditioning Conquered America (Even the Pacific Northwest)

  The New York Times - By EMILY BADGER and ALAN BLINDER

  Air-conditioning has been remarkably good at creating demand for itself. It enabled the sweeping postwar development of the South, where all new single-family homes today include central air. In automobiles, it made the commutes between air-conditioned homes and air-conditioned offices possible. In …

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  Nadja Bester

  

  Climate change to cause humid heatwaves that will kill even healthy people

  The Guardian - Damian Carrington Environment editor

  If warming is not tackled, levels of humid heat that can kill within hours will affect millions across south Asia within decades, analysis finds Extreme heatwaves that kill even healthy people within hours will strike parts of the Indian subcontinent unless global carbon emissions are cut sharply …

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  Nadja Bester

  

  Climate Change Will Make Parts of South Asia Unlivable by 2100, Study Says

  TIME - By Justin Worland

  Temperatures in heavily populated South Asia will exceed habitable levels by the end of this century without efforts to stem manmade climate change, according to new research. Researchers behind the study, published in the journal Science Advances, found that 4% percent of the South Asian population …

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  Nadja Bester

  

  How New York's Roosevelt Island Sucks Away Summer Trash Stink

  NPR - George Bodarky

  Summer brings heat, humidity and — in a city like New York — nasty odors. The warmer months can intensify the smell of garbage on the streets. That is, unless you live on a narrow island that sits in the East River between Queens and Manhattan. Roosevelt Island is home to a trash disposal system …