Kleptotherms

Radiolab

WNYC Studios

Science, Natural Sciences, History, Society & Culture, Documentary

4.6 • 43.5K Ratings

🗓️ 5 May 2021

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, we break the thermometer watch the mercury spill out as we discover temperature is far stranger than it seems. Five stories that run the gamut from snakes to stars. We start out underwater, with a snake that has evolved a devious trick for keeping warm. Then we hear the tale of a young man whose seemingly simple method of warming up might be the very thing making him cold. And Senior Correspondent Molly Webster blows the lid off the idea that 98.6 degrees Farenheight is a sound marker of health.

This episode was reported by Lulu Miller and Molly Webster and was produced by Lulu Miller, Molly Webster, and Becca Bressler.

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0:00.0	Wait, you're listening to radio lab from WNYC.
0:16.0	Hey, how are you feeling?
0:23.0	I mean, I feel fine.
0:24.0	I think I still am like a dashed nasally.
0:26.2	Hi there, it's Radio Lab. I'm Luzam Miller here with Senior Correspondent, Molly Webster.
0:32.0	So can you humor me and close your eyes?
0:35.1	Yes, eyes closed in my closet.
0:39.0	So now journey with me, me and you are on a trip.
0:42.0	We've got our bagpies and our hiking boots.
0:45.4	Okay.
0:46.4	And we've come across this site, an archaeological dig, and they are, they're like, unersing
0:52.0	this ancient library and we're like looking all around and you're over there and I don't
0:57.3	know, you find like a old globe and then we come across this book that's like covered
1:04.1	in dust and we blow the dust off and the dust like it turns into like snowy frosty snowflakes
1:14.6	and little tiny flames.
1:16.8	Oh, it's like.
1:19.8	And then it says in silver letters, klepto thirms.
1:25.4	And then we were like, what's the way?
1:30.4	What?
1:31.4	And we cracked the book and it's like, are we open it?
1:35.2	And there's five chapters and we turn the page in the first chapter.
1:40.4	There's just a picture of a snake in a coil.
	...

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