Really? That Seems Excessive and Mean

… Harvard scientists had once verified exactly that point by sticking a rectal thermometer in a cheetah and getting it to run on a treadmill. Once its temperature hit 105 degrees, the cheetah shut down and refused to run.”

I would’ve refused to run the second they put a rectal thermometer in… but kudos to the cheetah, I guess?

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Hi there. I'm Kate. Years and years ago, I started this blog in the hopes of publishing a novel and becoming an author. Instead, I went to law school and now I work in indigent criminal defense. I live in the desert with my two little dogs, Heartmeds and Stranger Danger. My mom is my best friend in the whole world. In my free time, I do geeky things like reading comic books and watching Star Trek. I also run half marathons so I can eat pizza and drink red wine without feeling (too terribly) ashamed. I do yoga. I write. Thanks for stopping by!

What more was needed by this old man, who divided the leisure of his life, where there was so little leisure, between gardening in the daytime and contemplation at night? Was not this narrow enclosure, with the heavens for a ceiling, sufficient to enable him to adore God in his most divine works, in turn? Does not this comprehend all, in fact? and what is there left to desire beyond it? A little garden in which to walk, and immensity in which to dream. At one's feet that which can be cultivated and plucked; over head that which one can study and meditate upon: some flowers on earth, and all the stars in the sky.
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… Harvard scientists had once verified exactly that point by sticking a rectal thermometer in a cheetah and getting it to run on a treadmill. Once its temperature hit 105 degrees, the cheetah shut down and refused to run.”

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