Toady Hawk
@toadyhawk.eth
mildly mind-blowing fact of the day for you: we don’t actually have the ability to feel temperature with our skin. Instead we feel heat transfer. That’s why when you get in a cold pool, it eventually stops feeling cold; the temperature of your skin and the water has equalized and you no longer feel heat transfer.
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Stuart
@olystuart
It's important for folks to understand this to help people dealing with fevers or hypothermia too. You have to treat their temperature not their subjective experience of the temperature they're telling you
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