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It's Monday, July 18th, 2020. I'm Jackson Bird. Today, heat waves around the world are so extreme this week that one of them matches a projected forecast for 2050. Plus, MIT engineers have found a more efficient method for boiling water.

And the winners of the World Emoji Awards, as well as all the new emojis drafted to hit Unicode 15 in September.

Here's some cool stuff for your ride home.

Substantial heat waves are baking parts of Western Europe, Central Asia, and the Central

U.S. this week, contributing to wildfires, killing hundreds, and straining resources in many

places that simply were not built for these high temperatures.

About a dozen locations from Western France up into the UK

saw all-time record high temperatures today,

with dozens more breaking daily or monthly record highs.

Various maps showing high-temperature anomalies over time in Europe

and around the world are truly gobsmacking.

Now, while the heat wave in the central U.S. will be stifling and still deadly,

the majority of towns and households there have experienced these temperatures before.

In the United Kingdom, it's a different story.

You might have seen a lot of headlines saying how England is expected to hit

40 degrees Celsius for the first time since weather records started being kept. That's 104 degrees

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