Arctic, Antarctic vets offer warm advice for surviving the polar vortex
by Robert McCoppin, Chicago Tribune
Jan 30, 2019
3 minutes
CHICAGO - As she bikes or walks to work at Chicago's Field Museum on especially cold days, Akiko Shinya sometimes sniffs and feels the inside of her nostrils freeze, or blinks and feels her eyelashes briefly freeze together. That's when she flashes back to fossil-hunting in Antarctica.
"I kind of like that sensation for an instant," she said. "It takes a little tug to open your eyes."
It was at the bottom of the world where Shinya, the museum's chief
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