Okay Luke Vanderpulg, today explain producer. We're here at mattress firm in Brentwood DC

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SignRisnek, science reporter here at Vox.com. You've requested my presence here for some sort of experiment.

Yeah, we're going to do a little science demonstration for you. What do we do first?

We're going to grab a glass from the cabinet. Okay great. I have a glass. You have a glass. What's next?

Let's get some ice. Ice. Ice. Ice. Baby. We have one of these fridges that makes ice for us.

It looks like we have like two regular sized glasses about filled with ice cubes, but now what are we going to do?

Fill your glass up with water. It just says here at the top. Okay now we're heading to the studio, huh?

Let's do it.

Okay, Brian. I've got my glass of water. I got mine. I've got a marker. Do you have yours?

Yep, purple. Okay. What happens now? So draw a line where the water level is.

I am drawing a line on a glass that belongs to Vox media. I hope they don't mind. So what's next?

We wait.

Why don't we do an interview while we're at it? Sure. Sure. What do you want to know?

Tell me what's going on in the Arctic right now. So the Arctic has had one of its warmest wildest winters in recent history, perhaps in recorded human history.

Could you take me there? Tell me what it looks like. Set a scene for me.

Arctic in winter. It is a desert. It is cold. It is blank. It is white. It is frozen.

And in the winter, you know, due to the seasons and the tilts of the earth, there's no sunlight up there. Like the sun doesn't rise on the North Pole into the equinox.

All of a sudden done, this winter was the warmest winter on record for the Arctic that we know of.

And this week, actually on Tuesday, nature communications came out with a study that's finding an association actually between those warm Arctic winters and weirdly cold weather we're having in the United States.

So if you think the Arctic is this far away place, the weather up there impacts weather all around the world.

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