Cooling is as important to civilisation as making fire — only much harder

Chilled: How Refrigeration Changed the World, and Might Do So Again Tom Jackson

Bloomsbury, pp.223, £16.99, ISBN: 9781472911438

Summertime, and the living is… variable. Depends who you ask. People come to mind, of course: one in hospital, waiting for an MRI scan; another just come out of hospital having had two little frosted ova thawed out and implanted, so with a bit of luck she’ll have a baby at last.

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TaggedBook review - History, cold, cryogenics, cryoprobes, heat, ice-houses, Mesopotamia, the Large Hadron Collider

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Cooling is as important to civilisation as making fire — only much harder

Chilled, Tom Jackson’s enthralling history of how refrigeration changed the world, takes us from Mesopotamian ice-houses to the Large Hadron Collider

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