Now, now, easy With the Schadenfreude

​ 'So, now that's how it feels,' is the tinny voice being heard inside many a hypothalamus, the part of the brain that tells the body to get back to its regular temperature when it gets too hot or cold. Concerned and 'experienced' advice about the need for northern Europeans to take siestas like their southern cousins are doled out like wet sponges from our good old tropics.