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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HUMIDITY in the South and east.
Good grief the usually 85 or,lower iq kmobs get even dumber in the heat.
No wonder they riot in the summers. Frigging idiots.
Also good most legislatures have summer breaks.
I think the proof is that most equatorial countries are sh!tholes.
People actually get dumber doing studies that are dumb to begin with.
Well that explains Hollyweird.
I hear you in MA.
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