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Jul 12, 2024
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with Anu Gargpsychrophobia
PRONUNCIATION:
MEANING:
noun: An abnormal fear of cold.
ETYMOLOGY:
From Greek psychro- (cold) + -phobia (fear). Earliest documented use: 1727.
USAGE:
“Do you live in an igloo? Then you definitely do not have psychrophobia.” North Hills News Record (Warrendale, Pennsylvania); May 30, 1978. A THOUGHT FOR TODAY:
We are not going to be able to operate our Spaceship Earth successfully nor
for much longer unless we see it as a whole spaceship and our fate as
common. It has to be everybody or nobody. -Buckminster Fuller, engineer,
designer, and architect (12 Jul 1895-1983)
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