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With or without deodorant, be glad you sweat Everybody raise your hand. how our comfort might be hurt“The Joy of Sweat: The Strange Science of Perspiration” ing our planet. This book might Go ahead, high in the air. Raise your not completely change minds, by Sarah Everts hand if you like ice cream, vacations, but it might alter a few habFrench fries, good dogs, or free snacks. Put c.2021, Norton its... ‘em up if you can remember your mom’s $26.95 / $35.95 Canada birthday, the name of your First Love, and Look for the reviewed book at 285 pages all the words to “The Star Spangled a bookstore or a library near Banner.” Read “The Joy of Sweat” by you. You may also find the book Sarah Everts and wave your hand over More than anything, though, at online book retailers. THE BOOKWORM your head if you … no, wait. Never mind. sweat is “just a body trying its best SEZ The Bookworm is Terri to do its thing, to stay alive.” It’s hot outside, and just walking from Schlichenmeyer. Terri has been readBy Terri Schlichenmeyer home to car is enough to put a sheen on Welcome to mid-summer, and you’ve ing since she was 3 years old and your face, a trickle down your spine, and already done that old raise-your-armnever goes anywhere without a book. hooo-weee under your arms. Nearly everybody over-your-head-take-a-whiff thing and wrung out She lives in Wisconsin with three dogs and sweats, but we Earthlings spend some $75 billion on two t-shirts. Isn’t it time to get “The Joy of Sweat” 10,000 books. v substances to help us pretend we don’t. in your wet, clammy hands? You’re sweating right now, in fact. Humans are It is, because author Sarah Everts turns what “always sweating, at least a little bit,” says Everts, might be an embarrassment into a SuperPower, but get physical, and things get critical. On a hot helping readers to see why we should welcome that day or after any kind of overexertion, “your internal mid-afternoon sheen or post-workout wetness. temperature could easily reach life-threatening lev- Along the way, she takes us into laboratories and els” without some sort of cooling-off. Sweat, in a sort boardrooms, perfumeries and sauna theatre to see of collaboration with bipedalism, is evolution’s way the future of sweat and, most surprisingly, how it’s of protecting you from heat stroke. perceived remotely. Be thankful for it. Some creatures use urine, feces There’s just enough science here to inform a read30 COLORS 26-29 GAUGE Standard all around and vomit to keep cool. er, a few answers to some sweaty questions and a durability big maybe, just enough eeeeeuuuwww to entertain, Nope, you’re in luck: eccrine sweat glands cover a bit of humor to make you forget your disgust, and most of your body and are responsible for rushing a whole lot of fun. sweat to the surface of your skin so the sweat can evaporate for a “net cooling effect.” Apocrine sweat It almost makes you want to go outside today and glands are found along hair follicles, such as on do something. your groin, armpits, or scalp. They’re larger than That something may be to go find this book, and your eccrine glands and are responsible for “chemiget more appreciation for your perspiration. cal communication” and sexual selection. Where you Because, really – missing “The Joy of Sweat” would have apocrine glands is where you have a “stink 30 COLORS 26-29 GAUGE Standing seam architecture be the pits. look for half the price zone.” n But sweat isn’t just a smelly, wet, potential embarSweat’s cool and so is air conditioning but there’s rassment. It can tell scientists what foods and media price to pay. In “After Cooling: On Freon, Global cines you consume and diseases you might have; it Warming, and the Terrible Cost of Comfort” by Eric can make you manipulatable, and it can help solve Dean Wilson, you’ll see how we (finally!) learned to crimes via fingerprints (which are basically just control the climate of our rooms and homes, and “sweatprints”).
Help needed with farm safety, health survey
ROCHESTER, Minn. — University of Minnesota Extension is currently conducting a survey of Minnesota farmers to determine their most pertinent farm safety and health needs. The five-minute survey includes questions about pressing topic areas, the type of education needed, and current barriers to safety on farms. “The results of this survey will help us prioritize our work in farm safety and health,” said Emily Krekelberg, Extension Educator in Farm Safety and Health. “Farmers know safety is important, and this
is an opportunity for them to share with us what they think is most critical.” Farmers are asked to complete the survey by Aug. 31. The survey can be found online at z.umn.edu/ FarmSafetySurvey. If you have any questions, or would like to complete the survey in a different format, contact Krekelberg at krek0033@umn.edu or (612) 756-3977. This article was submitted by University of Minnesota Extension. v
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