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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
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/chilling-out-hot-springs-may-help-japans-snow-monkeys-reduce-stress-180968686/
[Fact Off]
Camp Century:
http://www.iceandclimate.nbi.ku.dk/research/drill_analysing/history_drilling/drill_bedrock/
https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2016/08/mysterious-ice-buried-cold-war-military-base-may-be-unearthed-climate-change
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
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/journal-of-glaciology/article/description-of-the-iceberg-aircraft-carrier-and-the-bearing-of-the-mechanical-properties-of-frozen-wood-pulp-upon-some-problems-of-glacier-flow/BE12BCCE68FE5D9C307299A2F1F2DFC6
[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
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/chilling-out-hot-springs-may-help-japans-snow-monkeys-reduce-stress-180968686/
[Fact Off]
Camp Century:
http://www.iceandclimate.nbi.ku.dk/research/drill_analysing/history_drilling/drill_bedrock/
https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2016/08/mysterious-ice-buried-cold-war-military-base-may-be-unearthed-climate-change
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
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/journal-of-glaciology/article/description-of-the-iceberg-aircraft-carrier-and-the-bearing-of-the-mechanical-properties-of-frozen-wood-pulp-upon-some-problems-of-glacier-flow/BE12BCCE68FE5D9C307299A2F1F2DFC6
[Butt One More Thing]
https://www.livescience.com/61018-turtles-breathe-through-butt.html
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