Although it has a reputation for sogginess, it's been cooler and wetter than normal for the last few months in the British isles.

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It's become a national water cooler for chatter about big televised events such as the Oscars and the Super Bowl.

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But I think the iPhone looks cooler really because it's thinner and looks more modern.

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"It's a subtropical air mass, " Pedram Javaheri, and can spark thunderstorms as it collides with a cooler front coming over from Texas.

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It's very dynamic and that makes for a much cooler viewing experience.

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Dr. SCHAWINSKI: Yeah, as discoveries usually are named after their discoverer, it has been named after Hanny van Arkel, but instead of calling it Hanny's Object, it quickly became known in our online community as Hanny's Voorwerp - voorwerp simply being the Dutch word for object but it sounds cooler.

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"It's possibly a function of how many people are in the water" in New Zealand's cooler climate.

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The change lets it grow in a human respiratory tract, which is cooler than the virus' natural home: a bird's gastrointestinal tract.

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