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A discovery in weather in the 1990s was the Atmospheric River. They’ve been around for pretty much ever though – one of them bankrupted California in 1862, and another dumped lots and lots of water onto Brisbane, in February 2022.
For 50 years air conditioning in commercial buildings has been set using the Standard 55 guidelines. But many workplaces aren’t staffed solely with 40-year-old men dressed in 60s business suits, and that’s left women out in the cold, as Dr Karl Kruszelnicki argues.
What happens when we run out of oil? How long does the human brain last? How do anaesthetics knock us out? Dr Karl answers these questions and more on triple j Mornings, with host Lucy Smith.