Friday, February 25, 2022: resisting…urge…to…comment…on…current…events…I know…nothing…about… (just to pick a random example, the ongoing war in Ukraine)

Extreme heat not only affects our bodies, which we knew, but it exacerbates mental illness too, according to this study in JAMA.

Everybody knows shooting deaths go up when it is hot. I always assumed that people tended to be outside interacting more, especially if they don’t have air conditioning, and that young men in particular just have less to do in the summer months. But maybe there is more to it than that.