Highs and Lows
-20 Fahrenheit is the temperature of the deep freezer that stores BYU Creamery ice cream, but that’s not the coldest freezer on campus. The Bean Museum keeps animal tissues at an Antarctic -112 Fahrenheit.
40 Fahrenheit helps preserve the 1 million photographs in the vaults of BYU’s L. Tom Perry Special Collections.
2,381 Fahrenheit exceeds the heat of an erupting volcano and is the operating temperature of the Harris Fine Arts Center’s ceramic kilns.
-459.668 Fahrenheit is the coldest temperature of atoms achieved by BYU’s Physics Department—one thousandth of a degree above absolute zero.
Face Time
52 minutes were spent each day, on average, by BYU freshmen on social networking sites like Facebook, according to a study by BYU grad student Wade C. Jacobsen (BS ’09) and sociology professor Renata Tonks Forste (BS ’84). The study was published in Cyberpsychology, Behavior, and Social Networking.
45 minutes were spent daily by freshmen calling or texting on cell phones.
10 to 15 more minutes of face-to-face interaction occurred for every hour spent with social media or cell phones.
.05 GPA was the average drop for freshmen who spent an hour a day using digital media, which amounts to a B+ dropping to a B in one class of a full schedule.
