38°C in Britain is more dangerous than 45°C in Phoenix, and it comes down to one number: your body sits at 37.
Once the air outside is hotter than your skin (around 35°C), heat stops flowing out of you. Radiation and convection reverse. The air starts heating you instead. At that point your body has exactly one cooling system left: sweat turning to vapor and pulling heat off your skin.
Phoenix is built to protect that system. Around 90% of US homes have AC, the air is bone dry so sweat evaporates the instant it forms, and the whole city is designed around triple digits.
Britain is built to defeat it. Roughly 5% of homes have air conditioning. About 92% overheat during a heatwave. Half the housing stock went up between 1930 and 1982, with thick walls and small windows meant to trap warmth through a damp winter. The same features that keep a house cozy in February turn it into an oven that won't release heat in July.
Then the sun goes down and nothing changes. A real heatwave brings tropical nights where the temperature never drops below 20°C. Your body resets by dumping the day's heat overnight. Remove that recovery window and the strain stacks, night after night.
That's why London's heat death rate rivals Rome's, and why the UK loses more than ten times as many people to heat as Sweden does. The 2022 heatwave killed around 3,000. At one point the Central Line was running hotter than the legal limit for transporting cattle.
Phoenix planned for the heat. Britain assumed it would never arrive. 38 stays a small number right up until it's one degree above the one inside you.
Trying to put together a video featuring all the Yu-Gi-Oh! Cards with the Anime Characters in them!
If you know any feel free to reply with an image and the name of the card :D
Hey everyone! Professional dog trainer and certified animal behaviourist here!
This is absolutely a very precious Great Dane puppy.
But let's talk about the thing everyone is confused about... His ears.
Ear cropping is a surgical procedure that involves cutting away the outer pieces of the ear (called the pinna) to remove the floppy bits. The remaining cartilage gets forced upwards using tape, bandages, and flat wood as support (similar to thick popcicle sticks). A process that is called "posting".
Ear cropping today is almost entirely done for aesthetic purposes, and there is absolutely no health benifits to doing it.
It had originated for breeds that were expected to face injury. Dogs used in dog fighting (which is now illegal) and less nerfarious things such as livestock guardian dogs.
Think of it like "No capes!" except the cape is two pieces of long floppy skin attached to the animal...
Do you know the breed Doberman Pinscher? The beautiful "Anubis" looking dogs? Well... What if I was to tell you they too are born with beautiful floppy ears!
Pitbulls and other bully breeds are all born with floppy ears. Dogo Argentino, Cane Corso, Mastiffs, and even Schnauzers are all dog breeds that are born with floppy ears but commonly get them cropped.
Ear cropping and tail docking are almost one in the same. There are MANY dog breeds that get their tails docked as well! HOWEVER tail docking has more reasons behind it than just dog fighting and aesthetics that humans place on animals. But that's a whole other topic...
I'm personally heavily against ear cropping, unless there's a medical reason that it had to be done in the first place, which is HIGHLY unlikely.
It doesn't help prevent ear infections. That's a myth.
Anyone who is comfortable doing, what is essentially, cosmetic surgery to their dog, while at the same time not being comfortable neutering their dog, shouldn't have a dog.
Ear cropping is slowly becoming outlawed in may vet practices. Please love your animals for how they are, and not how you want them to be perceived.
If you have any other questions about dog breeds or ear cropping, feel free to ask in the comments!
HAPPY BIRTHDAY NOZOMI!
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This year I wanted to celebrate Nozomi in one of my favourite costumes: Fairytale! 👑💐
I also gathered all of my plush to take a big family photo! 💜
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Are you scared about buying fake Pokémon cards?
Well, you better be, because the level of detail that fakes in this hobby have reached is quite scary.
Yes, seasoned collectors may not fall for this, but what about new collectors coming into the hobby?
Thanks to @yagimaru_t sensei for putting together a cheat sheet during an in-person workshop on one of the most sought-after cards of recent eras: the Van Gogh Pikachu.
Make sure you bookmark the below for future reference 👇🏼
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It's going to be gross and🔥HOT🔥 in the UK soon, what you need to know to prepare:
~YES we WILL be complaining about the weather.
~YES it's going to be insufferable.
x NO we don't have AC.
x NO we will not shut up about it.
SHREK 2 was released 22 years ago today.
The filmmakers reportedly fought hard to secure the rights to “Holding Out for a Hero,” and once they got it, the entire finale was reshaped around the song helping create one of the most iconic animated climaxes.