Nancy Gibbs

Even if it wasn't always morning in America during the years of his presidency, Reagan's eagerness to insist that it was tapped into a longing among voters. They didn't want to picture themselves turning down their thermostats and buttoning up their cardigans. They wanted to strut again. Reagan opened his arms and said, 'Walk this way.

American Journalist

Tony Fadell

While I was designing my home, I was living in different houses all around the world, and I saw thermostats that were just as bad as the ones in the U.S., or houses that needed them but didn't have them. I realised that this was a worldwide problem. I thought, 'Let's fix it.

American Inventor

Kevin McCarthy

There are two different types of leader. A person can either be like a thermometer or a thermostat. A thermometer will tell you what the temperature is. A thermostat will not only tell you what the temperature is, but it'll move you to the temperature you need to get to.

American Politician

James Gleick

Because everyone in the world has the power to edit, Wikipedia has long been plagued by the so-called edit war. This is like a house where the husband wants it warm and the wife wants it cool and they sneak back and forth adjusting the thermostat at cross purposes.

American Author

David J. C. MacKay

Fridges can be modified to nudge their internal thermostats up and down just a little in response to the main's frequency in such a way that, without ever jeopardising the temperature of your butter, they tend to take power at times that help the grid.

English Philosopher

Susie Orbach

If you continually diet, you are putting your body in a quasi-famine situation. It slows your metabolism down and breaks the thermostat. Diets don't work. They don't help you understand why you're eating more than your body wanted in the first place.

English Psychologist

Joe Kaeser

In the developed world, we are surrounded by electronics - from the computers on our desks to the smart phones in our pockets to the thermostats in our homes to our data in the virtual cloud.

German Businessman

Philippe Cousteau, Jr.

The world cannot live without the Arctic; it affects every living thing on Earth and acts as a virtual thermostat, reflecting sunlight and cooling the planet.

American Scientist

Cory Booker

You can be like a thermometer, just reflecting the world around you. Or you can be a thermostat, one of those people who sets the temperature.

Tom Udall

Man is now in charge of the thermostat for the globe.

Commonly used in daily conversation, especially when discussing comfort at home or in cars.

Usage Frequency

Sometimes used metaphorically to refer to someone's temper or the tension in a situation.

Figurative Sense

A thermostat doesn't generate heat; it regulates the existing heating or cooling system.

Misconception

Used in engineering or technical discussions, referring to precise temperature control.

Technical Context

Crucial for safety in maintaining temperatures to prevent overheating or freezing in equipment.

Safety Importance

Regular inspection and calibration can prevent malfunctions of thermostats in critical systems.

Maintenance

 That was when I was reading the meter every week. And my life changed, because I started doing experiments and seeing what made a difference. My gas consumption plummeted, because I started tinkering with the thermostat and the timing on the heating system, and I knocked more than half off my gas bills. There's a similar story for my electricity consumption,

David Mackay: A reality...

 things you can control the things you can you can control the temperature difference between the inside and the outside and there's this remarkable technology called the thermostat you grasp it you rotate it to the left and your energy consumption in the home will decrease I've tried it it works some people call it a lifestyle change you

A reality check on...

 patients with depression have hyperactivity the area of the brain for sadness is on red hot it's the thermostat is set at a hundred degrees and the other is the brain involved in driving motivation are shut down so we wondered can we place electrodes in this area of sadness and see if we can turn down the thermostat can we turn down the

Parkinson's, depression...

 and the other areas of the brain, involved in drive and motivation, are shut down. So we wondered, can we place electrodes in this area of sadness and see if we can turn down the thermostat, can we turn down the activity, and what will be the consequence of that? So we went ahead and implanted electrodes in patients with depression.

Andres Lozano:...

 we have people comparing themselves to their neighbors, and then we give everyone targeted recommendations to help them save. We started with paper, we moved to a mobile application, web, and now even a controllable thermostat, and for the last five years we've been running the largest behavioral science experiment in the world.

Alex Laskey: How...

 discovery the combination of cheap sensors open standards and most importantly connected enthusiasm is unleashing the long tail of curiosity it's a new era of connected exploration and if you thought that smart thermostats were cool then you're gonna

How DIY science is...

 That's because I didn't know what was coming. At the beginning of week two, my life got much worse. As the symptoms dialed up in intensity, my internal thermostat seemed to go haywire. I would sweat profusely almost constantly,

The agony of opioid...

 He was shown how to use a thermostat. The case manager also observed that he was heating the beans in the can on the stove, like he had done over the campfires for many years. He was shown how to use pots and pans.

The Housing First...

 storm intercepting forest hillside that makes food you know that's kind of what we're up to I was a suburbanite raised with video games and thermostat on the wall and refrigerator and all that I actually

Tony PIPE Live Free or Die

 about the past, that becomes the new norm. It's like resetting a thermostat. It's not having experiences that makes us wise.

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