Vtubers in the brain

these are images from a 1930s pamphlet that endorsed kudzu, entitled "stop gullies: save your farm"

Canebrakes built up incredibly rich, fertile soil and are amazing at preventing erosion. They form incredibly strong mats of rhizomes. And their roots are known to go 10 feet deep into the soil.

We hated them. We didn't really clock the nationalist nature of the thing but we we hated being asked to stand in a big group and sing songs for nobody. It was boring and goofy. Thinking about it now, it really was just our teachers using us as fodder for a Mass Ritual to Prevent 9/11 from Happening Again.

Eventually, some kids developed a sort of game. The ceremony had all these little dramatic pauses between sections of a speech or in-between songs. Kids would wait for those little pauses and, right before the song started, just shout "NINE ELEVEN!" There was a voice for it to. You had to sound kinda like a Patrick Star or a similar exaggerated dunderhead type character.

Tags passing peer review, gonna share.

what does fahrenheit have to do with anything, i took these figures from an article that gave its figures in celsius (although i now can't find the article again, that's on me not citing my sources cos i was just talking to myself), but here's a scientific article stating the same figures:

The process of urbanisation alters the thermal balance of an area resulting in an urban heat island effect where cities can be several degrees centigrade warmer than the surrounding rural landscape. This increased heat can make cities uncomfortable places and, during heat waves, can pose serious health risks. This study looked at the role that trees and grass can play in reducing regional and local temperatures in urban areas during the summer within the urban landscape of Manchester, UK. In June and July 2009 and 2010, we monitored the surface temperatures of small plots composed of concrete and grass in the presence or absence of tree shading, and measured globe temperatures above each of the surfaces. The same measures were also recorded at mid-day on larger expanses of asphalt and grass in an urban park. Both surface and shade greatly affected surface temperatures. Grass reduced maximum surface temperatures by up to 24 °C, similar to model predictions, while tree shade reduced them by up to 19 °C.

this is about surface/ground temperature rather than air temperature, if those figures seem high to you: the woodland trust notes that

"However, in a study from Manchester, shade from street trees reduced surface temperatures by an average of 12°C and concrete surfaces shaded permanently by a bank of trees were cooled by up to 20°C in the summer (Armson et al. 2013), although these had no effect on air temperatures." [source]

elsewhere on their website they also reference research in cardiff showing that surfaces in direct sunlight are about 20C higher than surfaces in shade

you might think that that means they don't help in a heatwave, if it's not the air temperature that's impacted, but one thing i really noticed in this one was the impact of the bricks of my flat absorbing heat from direct sunlight during the day -- at night, although air temperatures had cooled, the bricks were still radiating heat like an oven. however, the wall that is shaded by a tree did not absorb as much heat, because it did not get direct sunlight, and therefore that part of the flat did not have this heating effect at night