tropics

Bed pans weren't brought to the tropics because they weren't needed, therefore their other uses were not discovered.

Many of the places that don't have DST are between the tropics, poor or have no functional democracy.

North America and Europe paying elevated prices for food from the tropics, now, that could actually work.

In temperate and boreal latitudes they are mostly deciduous, but in tropics and subtropics mostly evergreen.

Information about people in the tropics would be interesting since climate doesn't vary as much there.

Well that is how it is for me living by the beach in the tropics.

Mosquitoes are densest in the tropics where hailstorms are rare, but just about everywhere on earth short of Antarctica has some mosquitoes.

That's not even counting cosine error, which will hurt you badly any time you're not flying at high noon in the tropics.

The only member of their genus to grow outside the tropics, and they are endemic to the US, but nobody knows about them!

Personally I find not having aircon in the tropics a really quick way to take your productivity to zero.

Places on the tropics of cancer/capricorn (30 degrees) tend to be deserts.

Truly spicy food has typically been found only in the tropics...

Their conclusion is that planting trees in the tropics would lead to cooling, but in colder regions, it would cause warming." But yes, in general we should definitely plant trees.

> "Samuel Crowther...looking back on nearly twenty years later on these early days of United Fruit in his book The Romance and Rise of the American Tropics, what was being discovered was that 'demand is a thing which must be created" (51) Without getting into too much of a discussion about health and diet...