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From sugary snow cones to WWII plans for an aircraft carrier made of ice and wood pulp, humans have had big dreams for frozen water. So this week, we’re exploring the science of snow and ice across the globe. Turns out, there are ancient refrigerators in the dry Iranian desert and abandoned military bases under the Greenland ice sheet. And even though Japanese snow monkeys seem all cozy and chill in their hot springs, what mischief do they get up to in their free time?
Sources:
[Truth Or Fail]
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10329-015-0492-0
https://www.researchgate.net/blog/post/japans-monkeys-wash-their-potatoes-and-ride-deer-like-horses
[Fact Off]
Camp Century:
http://www.iceandclimate.nbi.ku.dk/research/drill_analysing/history_drilling/drill_bedrock/
http://www.iceandclimate.nbi.ku.dk/about_centre/history/
https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Features/Paleoclimatology_OxygenBalance
Iceboxes:
http://eartharchitecture.org/?p=570
[Ask the Science Couch]
http://www.ccmr.cornell.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/11/Ice-Alloys.pdf
[Butt One More Thing]
https://www.livescience.com/61018-turtles-breathe-through-butt.html
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From sugary snow cones to WWII plans for an aircraft carrier made of ice and wood pulp, humans have had big dreams for frozen water. So this week, we’re exploring the science of snow and ice across the globe. Turns out, there are ancient refrigerators in the dry Iranian desert and abandoned military bases under the Greenland ice sheet. And even though Japanese snow monkeys seem all cozy and chill in their hot springs, what mischief do they get up to in their free time?
Sources:
[Truth Or Fail]
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10329-015-0492-0
https://www.researchgate.net/blog/post/japans-monkeys-wash-their-potatoes-and-ride-deer-like-horses
[Fact Off]
Camp Century:
http://www.iceandclimate.nbi.ku.dk/research/drill_analysing/history_drilling/drill_bedrock/
http://www.iceandclimate.nbi.ku.dk/about_centre/history/
https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Features/Paleoclimatology_OxygenBalance
Iceboxes:
http://eartharchitecture.org/?p=570
[Ask the Science Couch]
http://www.ccmr.cornell.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/11/Ice-Alloys.pdf
[Butt One More Thing]
https://www.livescience.com/61018-turtles-breathe-through-butt.html
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