At this link, one may find explained a way of telling the temperature using crickets, an idea most people first encountered on the sitcom Big Bang Theory. It involves careful observation and is based on a number of interesting biological phenomena. Yet it has a weakness, in that it relies on counting the cricket's chirps -- one of that annoying insect's most annoying features. So I propose a method which will be almost as accurate but much quieter:
1) Look at a thermometer.
2) Kill the damn cricket.
Heh.
ReplyDeleteI will say - though this may be some kind of feeble attempt to assert some kind of hipster cred - I knew this method as a kid, long before any of the actors and such on the show were even born.
It's actually not a great method because crickets often hide out in cooler and damper places than the actual temperature humans experience....
All the more reason to kill them.
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