Hot, Sometimes Bothered
Bill Streever Explores the Mystery of Heat and Humankind
We might love to spend our vacations at the beach and buy winter homes in places like Arizona, but humans are a lot like Goldilocks when it comes to temperatures. “We don’t like it too hot; we don’t like it too cold,” biologist and nature writer Bill Streever told an audience at the Arizona State University Art Museum. Nevertheless, said Streever, author of Heat: Adventures in the World’s Fiery Places, even if most of us don’t like experiencing extremes of heat, we’re fascinated by stories of them. (Some in the …
