I thought I was done with CDs and CD players forever when I got my first iPod over 17 years ago. But then Linkin Park released Meteora: 20th Anniversary on CD in April, sending me down a deep rabbit hole in search of a good CD player.

The Sony Walkmans and Aiwas of my youth had long hit the landfill. Naturally, after ordering the three-disc album on Amazon, I typed "CD player" into the Everything Store to see what would come up. What kind of CD player can you get in 2023?

The results weren't great.

Many, many YouTube videos, tweets, and Instagram posts later, I landed on the NINM Lab Long Time No See Bluetooth 5.0 CD player. (Yes, that's really the name.)

The '90s-inspired transparent design — a clear nod to plastic jewel cases — won me right away. You do know that translucent and transparent gadgets are back, right? More than anything else, the CD player straddles the line between retro and modern with its modular form factor. It's portable and magnet-mountable to a metal surface, designed for private or communal listening, and has Bluetooth connectivity.

If the world felt like it was on fire earlier this week, it kind of was. According to data from the US National Centers for Environmental Prediction, the average global temperature reached 62.62 degrees Fahrenheit (17.01 degrees Celsius) on Monday and spiked to nearly 63 degrees (around 17.2 degrees Celsius) on Wednesday, making July 3 the hottest day our planet has experienced since at least 1979.

As we’ve seen for the past few years, dangerous heat waves are becoming a regular occurrence with no intention of going away until we can curb global greenhouse gas emissions. Heat stress can affect the body in a myriad of deleterious ways but what’s harder to pin down these temperature shifts impact health and well-being on a large scale.

To that end, researchers at the University of Roehampton in the UK determined that the human body isn’t able to regulate its core body temperature when the weather gets to 104 degrees Fahrenheit or more, especially if there’s moderate to high humidity. According to findings presented Thursday at The Society for Experimental Biology’s Annual Conference in Edinburgh, Scotland, this physiological malfunction appears to be linked to the body's metabolic rate.