"Welcome, come on in and beat the heat," read the first.
"When German troops first landed here, caves were dug as protection from the heat," read a plaque erected inside Swakopmund's tiny museum, crammed with artefacts and information.
The article in the San Francisco Chronicle is part of a series on climate change, titled "Taking the Heat". Read more.
The article in the San Francisco Chronicle is part of a series on climate change, entitled "Taking the Heat". Read more.
Unmanned aerial vehicles can not only take photos and videos, they can also spot heat sources, read car license plate numbers, and perhaps soon capture other information about people and things down below.
My favourite contemporary subtitle is attached to Bill Buford's cookery memoir, Heat, and reads thus: "An amateur's adventures as a kitchen-slave, line cook, pasta-maker, and apprentice to a Dante-quoting butcher in Tuscany".
But what she has done in Women feels kind of definitive and should be shown to Heat-reading teenage girls everywhere.
"There, like here, was a place to come in out of the cold, the rain, the heat," she resumed, reading from "The Revisionist," her new novel.
Revisiting the book this week, I was appalled that my earlier self, reading "Heat" a decade ago, hadn't even registered them as reason for concern.
