It found that not all sick days are spent under piles of blankets, with a thermometer and extra-strength meds.

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Of children who were brought to the clinic because parents thought they had a fever, most of them had been tested with a home thermometer.

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For two days running, he swallowed a thermometer with a transmitter attached to it and then rode a stationary bicycle in an uncomfortably warm room for an hour.

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By the time he got to Roasted Pork Tenderloin with Dried Cranberry and Apple Stuffing and Cranberry-White Wine Reduction Sauce, Bill had bought a new meat thermometer, digital, with protruding wires and flashing lights that made it look as though he'd lifted the whole apparatus from an intensive care unit.

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At present, the app offers up four modes: Kore (accelerometer, magnetometer and gyroscope), Clima (climate), Luma (flashlight) and Therma (infrared thermometer), with lots more planned soon.

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Even worse is the sad little noise thermometer which surges with rising decibels, as if to confirm the audience isn't dead or passed out from too many hot pretzels.

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Yet only a third of families with young babies have a room thermometer in the room where their baby sleeps.

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Derived from multiple proxies with global distribution, the PI provides independent evidence of the warming observed in the thermometer-based record.

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