SciShow: Why People are Always Fighting Over the Thermostat

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Content of the Lesson: Negotiating thermostat settings can be really frustrating, but your officemate isn't trying to freeze you out on purpose. Stefan explains the science behind why people experience temperatures differently. Fun fact: Stefan wears a jacket inside year round. Hosted by: Stefan Chin SciShow has a spinoff podcast! It's called SciShow Tangents. Check it out at http://www.scishowtangents.org ---------- Support SciShow by becoming a patron on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/scishow ---------- Huge thanks go to the following Patreon supporters for helping us keep SciShow free for everyone forever: Matt Curls, Sam Buck, Christopher R Boucher, Avi Yashchin, Adam Brainard, Greg, Alex Hackman, Sam Lutfi, D.A. Noe, Piya Shedden, Scott Satovsky Jr, Charles Southerland, Patrick D. Ashmore, charles george, Kevin Bealer, Chris Peters ---------- Looking for SciShow elsewhere on the internet? Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/scishow Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/scishow Tumblr: http://scishow.tumblr.com Instagram: http://instagram.com/thescishow ---------- Sources: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0306456518303164 https://cris.maastrichtuniversity.nl/portal/files/974288/guid-5ed3bb54-b934-4af8-9825-c490cebd0233-ASSET1.0.pdf https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24715568 https://risweb.st-andrews.ac.uk/portal/en/researchoutput/hot-or-not-thermal-reactions-to-social-contact(441ac119-cc69-4b38-901a-72407fc58dee).html https://www.health.harvard.edu/diseases-and-conditions/the-lowdown-on-thyroid-slowdown https://medlineplus.gov/raynaudsdisease.html https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0216362 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0360132306000242 https://www.nature.com/articles/nclimate2741 https://www.physiology.org/doi/full/10.1152/ajpheart.00871.2002 https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs004840050123 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1357384/?page=1 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0306456501000493 https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/BF00236062 https://escholarship.org/uc/item/3f4599hx https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.4161/temp.29702


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