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Brain Cooling

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In Genesis, the first book of the Bible, the fall of man is recorded and the consequence of labour and death is pronounced. The insights into the facility for brain cooling from eighteenth and nineteenth century commentators is remarkable:

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Law, T. (2013). Brain Cooling. In: The Future of Thermal Comfort in an Energy- Constrained World. Springer Theses. Springer, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-00149-4_4

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