Posted on 07/12/2018 1:49:07 PM PDT by BBell
BOSTON, Mass. (CBS Local) – With many states dealing with record-high temperatures and massive heat waves, many people are probably sick of summer already.
A new study says that your brain may hate the heat more than you do.
Researchers at Harvard University have discovered that a person’s brain works 13 percent slower when it has to operate in extreme heat. According to their report in PLOS Medicine, scientists studied 44 college students living in Boston during a 2016 heat wave.
That July heat wave was reportedly one of the hottest in the city’s history. 22 of the students lived in a brick-based buildings with no air-conditioning. The other 22 undergrads were living in air-conditioned dorms during the 12-day experiment.
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I was 98 degrees outside today.
And I’ve been posting on Stormy threads today.
They don’t get dumber. They perform more poorly. That has been obvious for years. Lack of sleep, dehydration. Get a life and stop doing stupid studies.
I’ve been to Washington, DC in August. Sure explains a lot.
“Researchers at Harvard University have discovered that a person’s brain works 13 percent slower when it has to operate in extreme heat. “
That explains so much about Guam!
“The team from Harvard’s T.H. Chan school of Public Health found that the students in non-air-conditioned buildings performed over 13 percent worse on both math and memory tests than their air-conditioned classmates.”
Could be because the students in the UnAC dorm were not getting good sleep? DOH
Explains why central America are all idiots and never created anything. I’ve always said the closer to the equator the lazier you are. But then along came AC and people could move south.
Interesting - I wonder if longer term exposure could have a longer term impact.
Living dry hot areas of Texas and Southern California heat doesn’t seen to change people around me. Maybe it’s a east coast thing.
With such a low baseline, how could they tell ?
whut?
Maybe lethargic is a better word? We all slow down a bit in the heat.
Wow, an explanation for global warming.
explains much posting behavior
They get dombererer use propar gramma please. Dam it hot today
This partly explains Chicago shootings.
It’s Stormy where you are ? It’s a nice day to be out plowin the garden here. Lots of large hills and holes to knock down and fill in.
Grants=studies=money
The answer to floridians problem. We have 2 seasons........
Hot and very hot
This explains alot
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