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Cake day: June 11th, 2023

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  • This has come up for years. In some circumstances you will be cooler, if the humidity is high you’re fucked. Hot and dry, sweat more, hot and wet, heat stroke.

    Their answer, in short: Yes, a hot drink can cool you down, but only in specific circumstances. “If you drink a hot drink, it does result in a lower amount of heat stored inside your body, provided the additional sweat that’s produced when you drink the hot drink can evaporate,” Jay says.












  • There is an app https://github.com/trynoice (F-droid, Playstore, on the web) that

    Noice is an app that allows you to create personalised sound environments. It enables you to combine different sounds at different volume levels to create perfect ambient atmospheres. These custom sound surroundings let you drown out distractions and allow you to concentrate. You can also use it to generate a serene, peaceful aura that encourages you to relax and fall asleep.’

    As well as nature sounds there are things like ‘conversation’ and ‘coffeeshop’. You might try that


  • Quite an interesting article

    the differences in the flavour notes and other characteristics of coffee varieties from around the world are not down to variations in individual genes, a study has found. Rather, they seem to be mainly the result of wholesale swapping, deletion and rearrangement of chromosomes.’

    And

    Most genetic variation in living organisms comes from hybridization with other species. However, that is a relatively rare event for C. arabica because it has more than two copies of each chromosome — a phenomenon called polyploidy. Coffea canephora has two copies of each chromosome, but C. arabica contains multiple copies. This makes it much more difficult for arabica to interbreed with other species.’