As temperatures rise, some creatures pick fights while others struggle to learn.
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They call it stupid hot for a reason: Heat muddles animal brains
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Great article!
Before I clicked the cover image I 100% thought it was a picture of a dog failing to identify which card was his card.
Before I clicked the cover image I 100% thought it was a picture of a dog failing to identify which card was his card.
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Is this why most Americans in the south are so stupid? It might also explain why most of the people in Queensland, AU are also stupid.
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While I share the long-term concerns for ecosystems in a slightly heating environment, I am more worried about global superpower nation leaders (won't name names) and the incoming summer
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A common misconception. It's actually caused by the nauseatingly high volume of sugar in the five gallons of sweet tea they drink each day.
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As expected, it is true for humans too: https://newsroom.ucla.edu/releases/high-temperatures-worker-injury-risk
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This is one of those "We already knew/suspected it was true but now we're formally studying it" kinda things... which sometimes ends up completely contradicting "common sense".
But not in this case, apparently!
But not in this case, apparently!
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Florida Man is unfortunately not a suitable subject for this research due to the lack of a brain to study.
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My immediate first thought upon reading the title, I’m in one of those moods upon reading of the general (mishaps) news this morning, compliments of the current administration, but I was going to refrain. Interesting connection though, isn’t it?
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The dog on the far left is cheating. He has three cards up his paw.
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Perhaps. The one main difference is residents in Queensland didn’t launch a civil war over slavery.
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Excellent. Now if they could check whether the heat also affects chicken and beef production the US might take climate change seriously
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Even worse, it was about expanding slavery to new areas of the country.
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They tend to be naturally stupid, because they rarely go outside when the temperature is too hot and can afford to live off of the taxpayer's money by staying in AC-frosted comfort.
It's their moronic acolytes who support them that you have to be worried about. With the standards of living going down, and the costs going up, they're going to be blaming the liberals and non-white races for all of it anyhow. The heat just makes them double down on it and do even more stupid things.
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I don't like how your post (and others in this thread) also implies that people in countries closer to the equator, who are predominantly black and brown, are stupider than people in countries towards the poles, who are predominately white. Or are you intentionally saying things like, for example, Somalians are stupider than British?
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This is also conjectured to be one of the reasons why IQ scores are lower in sub-Sahsrian Africa and other hot places that cant afford air conditioning.
I know im an extreme case but anything 25C or over and my brain is mush. I constantly need to put my head under the sink to cool down.
I know im an extreme case but anything 25C or over and my brain is mush. I constantly need to put my head under the sink to cool down.
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solarbonite
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If the spoon doesn't stick up straight after adding the sugar, it's not sweet enough!
Note: the proper way to drink sweet tea is about a 1:10 ratio in my not-so humble, non-Southern Floridian brain. Ask any Southerner: only north Florida is part of the South. In my Floridian opinion more than 1:10 ratio is icky!
That said it would be interesting for them to research heat conditioning: if you heat condition yourself the weather still feels terrible but you can still think even while running in the full sun. It takes about 3 runs to trigger the heat conditioning in my experience. Most folks hate heat conditioning but it's actually not terrible. Just a little dangerous because heat stroke is very much possible.
Running in 85° sun-rain, however, just broke me the other day. So mileage may vary...
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I once met a German guy who wanted to know when we had all the wars in Australia. He had seen how the borders between states drastically changed over the years and his only conclusion was war.
OTOH Banana benders have always been a bit strange.
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A funny expression to use, considering that mercury on the brain would do the same.
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There's an old observation that a Kalahari bushman would think that it's strange that an IQ test doesn't include knowing how to find water.
It's an insight pointing out that in general IQ tests are biased towards western thinking.
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Which kinda makes sense? Cannot have your brain fried by heat if you don't have one.
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It's almost like a climate feedback loop. It sounds kind of Inconvenient. Who could have known?
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Racist Republicans will just keep on trying to burn everything in the supremely ironic name of Conservatism. Everything is backwards day to those suicidal insecure imbeciles.
Shit will eventually get bad enough that it will be impossible to ignore, but it seems Racist Republicans still have a long way to go and a lot of heat coming to addle there brains even more.
It's almost like a climate feedback loop. It sounds kind of Inconvenient. Who could have known?
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Racist Republicans will just keep on trying to burn everything in the supremely ironic name of Conservatism. Everything is backwards day to those suicidal insecure imbeciles.
Shit will eventually get bad enough that it will be impossible to ignore, but it seems Racist Republicans still have a long way to go and a lot of heat coming to addle there brains even more.
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I couldn’t tell from the article if in hot weather they became equally scared of both items, or just became equally less scared of both the genet and the box.
I looked at the research paper so you don’t have to, and it appears to be the latter. Due to the heat, they became less reactive to both items. The authors speculate that vigilance and reacting also has an energetic cost, which is more difficult to sustain in hot weather. So it might be that, or the impact on the brain from the heat, or a combination of both.
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I 100% relate to this. When it’s too hot for me I can’t even do 1+1. My brains just freezes, of all things.
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Maybe.
Now, if a study showed increasing heat adversely affected oil production, every Republican in office would go into brain-lock...
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Average temperature varies by 20 Celsius or so over different latitudes. And at least ten degrees between summer and winter in many places.
Pretty sure it's more about what you are used to, short term and long term.
Global warming isn't going to scramble our brains.
Pretty sure it's more about what you are used to, short term and long term.
Global warming isn't going to scramble our brains.
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You're just asserting things blindly.
Have you heard of... clothing and shelter? These two things help to regulate the human body's temperature in those wildly varying conditions.
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Yes, we adapt to heat, and those are among the ways we do it, but not the only ones.
In the '80s I worked with a Somalian girl and I remember noticing how when hot May weather had Irish people staggering around in their shirts gasping for air and babbling about the excessive heat (it would probably have been all of 28C) she would still be wearing her woolly jumper. It's not genetic - or not much - lots of people from Africa wear similar amounts of clothing at the same temperature as the Irish. She was just used to heat. [Granted she was tall and thin, which is arguably adaptational - but tall thin people exist in every climate.]
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Narrator: It does but it won't make an impact in people's approach to climate change.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/apr/22/world-food-systems-extreme-heat-farming-un-report
https://www.theguardian.com/environ...y-decline-milk-production-farming-environment
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0168169925012499
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Or it could be indicating:
A: a bias toward knowledge vs thinking.
B: the nigh universal belief that 'tests' should be asking you the things you know...
C: the truth that, in the Kalahari, knowing how to find water is the primary survival skill, up there with, "remember to breath".
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I once knew a woman from the UK. We were talking about going to the beach and she said that once it gets to be around 28°C, it's too hot to be on the beach, so it's time to go home. My perspective was that once it gets to around 28°C then it's time to be going to the beach.
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