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COLD CALCULATION

“And now for the morning weather report. The daytime high will reach 68 degrees Fahrenheit. That’s 20 degrees Celsius. Or for you real science types, that’s 293.15 Kelvin.”

Temperatures and Thermometers

In science, numbers help us better understand our world. So, it’s not surprising that we understand the experiences of hot and cold by turning them into numbers, which we call . But sometimes this cool idea can also put us in hot water. Because unlike other measurements,

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