Okay, Miami boy here, born and raised, in a house w/o A/C. The statement "Experts suggest that the most conducive temperature for sleep is around 65 degrees Fahrenheit" really rubs me the wrong way. The lows now in Miami are 77F. That's a conducive sleeping temperature - if your body is used to it. As Ebben points out in the linked-to article, for most people it's not worthwhile to acclimate because they live up north where heat doesn't last long, and/or they are used to A/C both at home and work.
I know a bunch of northerners who don't feel comfortable sleeping without some sort of blanket, like the model in the picture used in the article. Instead, learn to sleep on top of the bedclothes, or under the thinnest sheet you have. The article mentions cotton PJs (or sleeping nude) - our family all slept in our underwear, which wasn't mentioned.
The classic pre-A/C option for northerners was to spend the summer in the mountains. Now that A/C insulates us from the climate, there's more pressure to stay in the city and work.
Living in Miami w/o A/C worked because I was in a 1940s house designed to co-exist with the heat. The vernacular Florida cracker style, for example, uses design elements to let the breeze through, which is incompatible with running A/C in the heat, where you want a well-insulated house. Having some airflow really helps, both for its cooling ability, and to keep the humidity down. Sure, in winter when it was 40F outside, it was also 40F inside, but frigid temperatures like that only lasted for a week or so.

Already by the end of page 1 I was chucking. "Surprisingly, no one has ever done any research on naming strategies (so long as you conveniently ignore [4, 5, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 13, 14, 15, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 23, 24, 25] and likely other work)."
Then page 2, "This set-up gives us convenient parameters for the model and just enough Greek letters to sound smart enough for publication." And how myopic parents with "perfectaccess to baby name data" is "a realistic assumption".
Oh, and citation 6 ("They would be wrong.") is a SIGBOVIK (a satirical computer science conference organized by Carnegie Mellon students) presentation by the authors themselves!
Thanks for the pointer!

If anyone wants a paper general encyclopedia (I have been tempted), the World Book Encyclopedia is still being published yearly. The 2024 set is 22 volumes and costs $1,099. https://www.worldbook.com/encyclopedias.aspx

I knew a few of those but definitely not most. The one I'll be pondering the most is #9, about the stone.

Saturday Morning Breakfast Cartoons had Superman as the world's energy source. https://www.smbc-comics.com/?id=2305

I've yet to stay in a very expensive hotel. My last trips have been on the definite low end, where you hear the drunk neighbors come in at 2am. I could go up a few notches before I enter the global capitalist monoculture.
My experience is that 20% of the tourists I meet visiting the US are Germans. Haven't met many Australians, as per #23.
My favorite jet lag (#37) was on our honeymoon in Rome. Went for a jog at 4am. Was an excellent way to avoid the crowds while going by the Colosseum, etc.

I wondered, at first, why they used the same answer for each square. Then I realized that, no, I likely didn't want 20 answers to the question "Who was Alex Trebek?" - they decided wisely.

I think that, technically speaking, "airplane" requires a fixed wing and powered thrust, which excludes balloons (and dirigibles and ornithopters), as well as 19th century fixed-wing gliders.

Archive.org's copy at https://archive.org/details/rage-stephen-king-richard-bachman_202405

I enjoyed the graphical style, sounds, and menu system. I sucked at the game itself.

I'm feeling 3 on the horse scale.

I'm beginning to think this whole Internet thing was a mistake.

Neat investigation, neat story - thanks Neatorama!

I had a friend who had a phobia about driving over bridges, matching the feelings of some of the Reddit commenters. I'm scared of heights, but can manage bridges by looking straight ahead. Were things a bit worse, I could see paying someone to help. Like, the last time I was on an aerial tramway I had to keep my eyes closed for the first 30 seconds.