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The subheading of Celsius 41.11 is "the temperature at which the brain begins to die." It's a clever tag line, but more fitting to people who decide to watch this dreary documentary. Of all the political documentaries to arrive in theatres, conservatives have been conspicuously absent, mainly because they are not the ones really pissed off. Balance is a good thing, and the sheer amount of liberal documentaries is beginning to be maddeningly dull. Unfortunately, Celsius 41.11 is not the film to make people cheer for the right. It is another one of those films that preach to the converted, much along the lines of Fahrenheit 9/11.
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Anders Celsius (November 27, 1701 – April 25, 1744) was a Swedish astronomer. Celsius was born in Uppsala in Sweden. He was professor of astronomy at Uppsala University from 1730 to 1744, but traveled from 1732 to 1735 visiting notable observatories in Germany, Italy and France.
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Later in his grand tour, Celsius visited scientific centers throughout Italy as well as in Paris and London. While in Paris, he became acquainted the astronomer Pierre Louis de Maupertuis. The French astronomer supported Sir Isaac Newton’s theory that the shape of the Earth swelled near the equator and was somewhat flattened near the poles; at the time most of the scientific community abided by an alternative view proposed by René Descartes. Maupertuis decided to lead an expedition that would definitively settle the dispute. He invited Celsius to join the expedition, which began in 1736 and took the group through northernmost Sweden. When their measurements were compared with those of a separate group of scientists on a related expedition close to the equator, Newton’s theory was proven correct.
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Throughout the world, except in the U.S., the Celsius temperature scale is used for practically all purposes. The only exceptions are some specialist fields (e.g., low-temperature physics, astrophysics, light temperature in photography) where the closely related Kelvin scale dominates instead. Even in the U.S., almost the entire scientific world and many engineering fields, especially high-tech ones, use the Celsius scale. The general U.S. population... remains more accustomed to the Fahrenheit scale, which is therefore the only scale that most U.S. broadcasters use in weather forecasts. This has caused some confusion in the weather of Canada. When some Americans hear 32°, they think Fahrenheit, which leads to the assumption that Canada's weather is freezing at best.
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Anders Celsius was born in Uppsala, Sweden, on November 27, 1701. The son of an astronomy professor and the grandson of a mathematician and an astronomer, Celsius chose a life in the world of academics. He studied at the University of Uppsala, where his father taught, and in 1730 he, too, was awarded a professorship there. His earliest research concerned the aurora borealis (... known as the northern lights, which are an unusually spectacular illumination of the night sky), and he was the first to suggest a connection between these lights and changes in the Earth's magnetic field.
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