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The Cricket Thermometer – Fact or Fiction?

Can you tell the temperature by listening to how fast crickets chirrup in the evening?   Neil deGrasse Tyson thinks so, according to this Tweet yesterday evening: Sounds like a great idea, and as I’m up in the foothills of the San Gabriel mountains at the mo’ – cricket central by my standards  – I thought [...]