Kleptotherms
Radiolab
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The Importance of Redundant Clothing
Dr. Tautagata Mahintamani a psychiatrist in India noticed that people with schizophrenia would walk into the hospital wearing tons of layers. A bunch of doctors were seeing this, but nobody really knew why. Dr. Mahin Tamani wanted to figure out if something else was going on. So he got a group of people with schizophrenia, some of whom wore layers and some of whom didn't. He did like cognitive tests and psych tests and physiological tests and basically long, long,. long, long,Long, long, long story short. They called their blood pressure dropping way lower on certain tests. And when he analyzed blood samples, he found that their T3 and
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