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In which theater were audiences encouraged to sleep?

In July 2011, London's Barbican Theater hosted an unusual theatrical performance called "Lullaby" every evening. Instead of sitting in armchairs, viewers were invited to lie on single, double and triple beds, and the main goal of the show was to get people to sleep well.

Morning breakfast was also included in the presentation program.

Authors: Jimmy Wales, Larry Sanger

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Why do we sweat?

The body can be considered a constantly working "furnace". The food we consume is the "fuel" that the body "burns". Every day, 2500 calories are used in this process in the body. They are enough to bring 23 liters of water to a boil! What happens to all this heat in the body? If there were no temperature regulators in the body, we would probably feel like steam boilers. But it is known that our body temperature does not rise (unless we are sick), but stays at an average of 37 degrees Celsius.

Sweating is one of the ways to keep our "furnace" at a normal temperature. Our body temperature is regulated by a center in the brain known as the "temperature center". It consists of three parts: control center, heating center and cooling center.

Imagine that the temperature of the blood drops for some reason. Then the heating center is taken to work. At his command, special glands begin to release more chemicals for combustion, muscles and liver - to spend more "fuel", and soon our internal temperature rises. And if the body temperature, on the contrary, rises for some reason? Then the cooling center comes into operation. The process of oxidation, or combustion of fuel, slows down. And then another important thing happens. The pores on the skin expand so that excess heat can escape and sweat evaporates more easily.

As the liquid evaporates, it absorbs heat. For example, we feel cool after taking a bath, as the water that comes into contact with our warm skin quickly evaporates and cools us down. So sweating is part of the body's cooling process.

Sweat is like a shower that irrigates the body from within. The fluid flows out through millions of tiny holes in the skin in the form of tiny droplets. And these tiny droplets can evaporate very quickly and cool the body when needed.

On days of high humidity, we suffer because the water from our skin cannot easily evaporate. So we use fans to disperse the humid air and make it easier for our sweat to evaporate.

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