I hear that corporate psychologists are fashionably outlawing the use of the word “but” preferring “and” as it’s more positive. I disagree with this fundamentally, for the same reasons as I disagree with Instaquotes about always being positive. I live as a defensive pessimist – What is the worst that can happen and how will I deal with it? As a result, people are often surprised to hear that I live in a state of happy wonder when my premonitions go unfulfilled. The reason tha

The normal range for core temperature is 36.5°C-37.5°C but in reality we can exceed these temperatures. An extreme but survivable core temperature would be about 41°C, beyond which you’d expect to see organ and brain damage as the body effectively cooks itself very gradually. Scans of people’s brains after suffering heat injuries demonstrate that tissue is damaged as if it’s been cooked! If our core temperature exceeds our safe limit then we may collapse from heat exhaustion.