By Tyler Mauldin, CNN Meteorologist
Updated 10:44 AM ET, Mon February 15, 2021
Penguins stay warm through social thermal regulation, a scientific term for cuddling. (CNN)It s not just humans finding ways to stay warm during this week s historic temperature plunge our animal friends are too.
And some of the strategies animal use are pretty cool (pun fully intended).
Animals are classified as either endotherms or ectotherms, which is another way of saying warm-blooded or cold-blooded. Endotherms regulate their body temperature by producing heat within. Birds are a good example.
Ectotherms are the opposite and rely primarily on the surrounding environment to regulate body temperature. Picture a turtle on a log basking in the sunshine on a warm day.
It s not just humans finding ways to stay warm during this week s.
Posted: Feb 15, 2021 10:56 AM
Posted By: CNN
It s not just humans finding ways to stay warm during this week s historic temperature plunge our animal friends are too.
And some of the strategies animal use are pretty cool (pun fully intended).
Animals are classified as either endotherms or ectotherms, which is another way of saying warm-blooded or cold-blooded. Endotherms regulate their body temperature by producing heat within. Birds are a good example.
Ectotherms are the opposite and rely primarily on the surrounding environment to regulate body temperature. Picture a turtle on a log basking in the sunshine on a warm day.
EDWARDSVILLE The transition from military service into higher education can be isolating for veterans.
It’s an experience Telisha Reinhardt knows well. She served in the Navy for four years before going to undergraduate and then graduate school.
“It’s really hard for me to put into words how that isolation feels, especially when you’re around people who are speaking the same language as you,” she said. “It feels like you’re an alien, and you’ve just been zapped into this classroom.”
Reinhardt is now focused on eliminating those feelings for veteran students at Southern Illinois University-Edwardsville, where she coordinates military and veteran services at a new Military and Veteran Resource Center, which opened in January. She said she’s working to establish support groups for women veterans, veterans of color and other marginalized groups.
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) Gov. J.B. Pritzker's administration has announced that RATIO Architects will lead the design process for an expanded communications building on the Carbondale campus of.
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NELSONVILLE The February session of the Spoken & Heard series hosted by Kari Gunter-Seymour, Poet Laureate of Ohio, will be held 7 p.m. Thursday at Stuart’s Opera House in Nelsonville.
Spoken & Heard is a seasonal series of literary events featuring award-winning authors, poets and singer/songwriters from across the country.
February’s event will feature poet Allison Joseph and author Wesley Browne. To register go to stuartsoperahouse.org.
Joseph lives, writes and teaches in Carbondale, Ill., where she is on the faculty at Southern Illinois University.
Her poetry collection, “Confessions of a Barefaced Woman” (Red Hen Press) was a finalist for the NAACP Image Award in Poetry and won the Feathered Quill Book Award.