Smologies #10: BODY HEAT with Shane Campbell-Staton

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Alie Ward

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🗓️ 1 February 2022

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

Bundle up for a smol, classroom-friendly episode with Princeton University evolutionary biologist and Thermophysiologist Dr. Shane Campbell-Staton. You’ll learn about everything from heat tolerance to frostbite, anti-freeze woodfrogs to icy alligators, why some people run hot, why your toes run cold, how a fever is like a honeybee, how geography influences our body composition, why mammoths are big, and why you should grab your hat before running out the door. Also: what counts as “balmy” in Alaska.

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0:00.0	Oh, hey, it's a tangled pair of headphones.
0:02.9	You just found in your winter jacket pocket.
0:05.9	It's a alleyward.
0:06.6	Hey, speaking of jackets, check in with your bod right now.
0:09.3	Are you cold?
0:10.5	Are you hot?
0:11.2	How are your feet?
0:12.6	Are they sweating?
0:13.4	Is this too many questions?
0:14.7	OK.
0:15.2	Well, I'm back with another Smaller Gs episode.
0:17.8	I'm sure right now you know what a smaller G is.
0:20.8	Right, of course you do.
0:21.7	For the people that are just joining,
0:24.2	Smaller Gs are these bite-sized, kind of sampler
0:27.2	episodes of our regular, untray sized, allergies episodes,
0:31.5	but in a little digestible 20 to 30 minute format.
0:34.6	Oh, and they're also g-rated.
0:36.8	So they're kid and they're classroom friendly.
0:39.0	So we took out all the swears in the innuendos,
0:41.2	and we left them on the cutting board.
0:42.9	And we've probably taken this meal metaphor far enough.
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