Episode 426 - "Hard K Sound is Hilarious"

About this episode

The episode discusses temperature scales, their origins, and the variety of scales available.

This week, we continue to talk about temperature with a discussion of temperature scales, where they came from, and why there are so many! Fun Paper Friday Kaiser, Caspar, and Andrew J. Oswald. "The scientific value of numerical measures of human feelings." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 119.42 (2022): e2210412119. Contact us: Show Support us on Patreon! www.dontpanicgeocast.com @dontpanicgeo dontpanicgeocast@gmail.com John Leeman www.johnrleeman.com @geo_leeman Shannon Dulin @ShannonDulin

People in this episode

Hosts: John Leeman, Shannon Dulin

Topics covered

• temperature
• temperature scales
• scientific measures
• human feelings
• research

Keywords

• temperature
• temperature scales
• human feelings
• scientific value
• research paper

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

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