temperature

Cars

Are sunshades effective in reducing the temperature in your parked car?

Sergio Grisaldi/Shutterstock It seems self-evident that a sunshade on the inside of a car windshield would be quite effective, for the same reason that blinds or curtains in your home keep the interior from getting too hot. Even ancient people understood cooling, and accordingly smithsonian magazineThe Romans

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Outdoors

Here’s why you shouldn’t fish for muskie or trophy pike when the water temperature is over 75 degrees

Sign up for the Quick Strike newsletter The latest fishing news, tips and tricks In July 2017, I was guiding a group of kayak bass fishermen Lake WanahueA flood control reservoir in southeast Nebraska that was built in 2012. The lake is stocked with bass, panfish, blue catfish, walleye, and northern pike, which flourished in

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Outdoors

Graphene, airgel sleeping bag ‘adapted to temperature’: Graphene-X Tardigrade Light first look

Sleeping bag insulation generally comes in two forms: down or synthetic. -Each has its own advantages. However, both are static insulators, meaning they do not adapt to changing temperatures. Recently, Graphene-X launched a new sleeping bag on Kickstarter that uses “Weather Adaptive Insulation” (WAI), which it claims can “think for itself” and adapt to hot

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