Comment It's almost as if... (Score 2) 153
people have a hard time living in environments that would be impossible without air conditioning.
I'm surprised this hasn't been mentioned; just last week RadioLab/NPR ran a segment on this subject.
"As part of the decades-long Johns Hopkins Precursors Study, Gallo found himself asking the study's aging doctor-subjects questions about death. Their answers, it turns out, don't sync up with the answers most of us give."
"Ada is PL/I trying to be Smalltalk. -- Codoso diBlini