cold-stupid

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MaryW commented on the word cold-stupid

The main core storage (at the National Ice Core Laboratory in Denver) is at a bone-chilling -38 degrees Celsius — the kind of temperature that renders people what Hargreaves (the curator) calls 'cold-stupid'. Reflexes slow down, talking seems difficult and thinking just as arduous.
Alexandra Witze & Jeff Kanipe, Island on Fire: The Extraordinary Story of a Forgotten Volcano That Changed the World (New York: Island Books, 2015), ch. 6, p. 136

February 18, 2019
bilby commented on the word cold-stupid

Unpopular theory: this may have had a factor in the demise of poor Oates.

February 18, 2019