No. 01 · October 2026 · 112 min
Refrigeration
You Don't Make Cold, You Move Heat
In February 1806 a Boston newspaper ran a one-line joke about a twenty-three-year-old who had loaded a ship with pond ice and sailed for the Caribbean, where nobody had anywhere to keep it. He went to debtors' prison. He also started a two-hundred-year story that ends with a treaty about what's inside your refrigerator — the first in United Nations history ratified by every country on earth. Jeff and Cyrus follow cold from a Boston pond to the stratosphere, and find that every time somebody won a round, the winner fought the next one.
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