Weather Influences by Edwin Grant Dexter audiobook.

Genre: science

First published in the early 1900s, Edwin Grant Dexter's Weather Influences sets out to test a question most people think they already understand: how much do day-to-day meteorological conditions shape what we feel and what we do? Dexter begins by surveying the rich tradition of weather lore - proverbs, folk beliefs, and literary portraits of 'skyey influences' - then pivots to a rigorously empirical challenge. Using meteorological records for temperature, humidity, wind, barometric pressure, and seasonal changes, he compares shifts in the atmosphere to real-world human outcomes drawn from schools, courts, police records, financial activity, and public health statistics. Chapter by chapter, Dexter follows weather's possible fingerprints across attention and classroom behavior, crime, mental illness, suicide, drunkenness, and other social indicators, always wrestling with a central problem: how to separate coincidence and cultural storytelling from patterns that can be measured. Written in a clear, methodical style, Weather Influences offers an early model of data-driven behavioral science, inviting listeners to question their assumptions, examine evidence, and consider how subtle environmental forces might nudge individuals and societies alike.

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 00

(00:38:59) Chapter 01

(00:52:19) Chapter 02

(01:15:48) Chapter 03

(01:34:17) Chapter 04

(02:01:15) Chapter 05

(02:35:47) Chapter 06

(03:01:18) Chapter 07

(03:37:38) Chapter 08

(04:18:35) Chapter 09

(04:54:33) Chapter 10

(05:10:12) Chapter 11

(05:40:48) Chapter 12

(06:10:14) Chapter 13

(06:28:27) Chapter 14

(06:49:37) Chapter 15

(07:20:50) Chapter 16

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