Twenty thousand days in Bangkok

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Monday, March 28, 2016

Air conditioning, frat sex, and self reliance

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These days the world thinks, mistakenly I believe, that it is high class to have air conditioning. Not always true, as an old Boston lawyer ...

Mango shower

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Mangos on our deck at Ekkamai Yesterday my wife brought a couple of nice fresh yellow mangos in from the big old tree that pokes through...
Sunday, March 20, 2016

Boston scorchers: will aircon strip away our best memories?

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From the free download chapter We are much inclined to think that air conditioning is a necessity, but I have to wonder these days whe...
Thursday, March 17, 2016

Bangkok weather BS I: heat wave

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We read today in our morning Bangkok Post how the temperature is going to be 41 (104F) today, with various Thai experts competing to expl...
Monday, March 14, 2016

Free air conditioning from neighbors: role for radiant cooling in the tropics?

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Hot muggy weather these March mornings, the hot season is moving in to smother us. Wet bulb temperature 27C (81F) all morning.  I have dis...
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Monday, March 7, 2016

Hospital air: pleasing but unhealthy?

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Although they have solar panels on the roof below my room on the sixth floor of Samitivej Hospital, which I take to be a manifestation of po...
Saturday, March 5, 2016

Hot places, USA: You wouldn't have seen it if you hadn't believed it.

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Curious research finding: people who live on the US Gulf Coast see evid ence of warm days based more on their politics than on the temperatu...