{
  "label": "Original proposed teaching episode. No guest booked, local temperature measured or film produced. Scientific background comes from the linked primary sources.",
  "title": "What the red patch on a heat map actually tells you",
  "audience": "Curious city residents who have encountered a dramatic temperature map.",
  "question": "What does a land-surface temperature map measure, and what else would we need to understand a particular street?",
  "promise": "Distinguish surface temperature, air temperature and a claim about one location before interpreting the map.",
  "candidateRole": "Researcher with direct experience of urban temperature measurement; identity, publications and relevant fieldwork to be verified before invitation.",
  "notAnIntroduction": "Do not describe this unbooked role as a named expert or invent career details.",
  "sources": [
    {
      "id": "S1",
      "title": "NASA: Land Surface Temperature",
      "url": "https://science.nasa.gov/earth/earth-observatory/global-maps/land-surface-temperature/",
      "checked": "2026-09-07",
      "supports": "Land-surface temperature measures the surface visible to the sensor; it differs from the air temperature in a weather report.",
      "doesNotSupport": "A numerical temperature difference on a particular street or a direct measure of pedestrian experience."
    },
    {
      "id": "S2",
      "title": "US EPA: Benefits of Trees and Vegetation",
      "url": "https://www.epa.gov/heatislands/benefits-trees-and-vegetation",
      "checked": "2026-09-07",
      "supports": "Shade and evapotranspiration are mechanisms through which vegetation can cool surface and air temperatures.",
      "doesNotSupport": "A guaranteed cooling amount for every tree, street, climate or time of day."
    }
  ],
  "researchGaps": [
    "Which specific dataset, sensor, acquisition time, unit and spatial resolution will appear?",
    "Does the selected guest directly work with these methods? Verify from primary work and a pre-interview.",
    "What local evidence, access and permission would support a street-level demonstration?",
    "Which assets can be reproduced and under what credit/usage terms?"
  ],
  "questionArc": [
    {
      "question": "When someone points to the reddest patch and says this is the air temperature, what would you check first?",
      "job": "Establish the misconception without pretending the guest already said it.",
      "source": "S1",
      "followUp": "Can you point to the variable and unit in one cleared example?"
    },
    {
      "question": "What surface is the sensor actually seeing here?",
      "job": "Make the measurement concrete.",
      "source": "S1",
      "followUp": "Would the interpretation change if it sees a roof or a canopy?"
    },
    {
      "question": "How would you investigate the difference between two nearby streets?",
      "job": "Expose the missing measurement design.",
      "source": "Open research question",
      "followUp": "What would you hold comparable, and what would still vary?"
    },
    {
      "question": "How do shade and water movement change the explanation?",
      "job": "Introduce mechanisms without assigning a universal effect size.",
      "source": "S2",
      "followUp": "Which claim would this evidence still not let us make?"
    },
    {
      "question": "What is the strongest reason this attractive map could mislead us?",
      "job": "Invite a substantive limitation.",
      "source": "S1 plus guest expertise",
      "followUp": "What qualification must survive the trailer and thumbnail?"
    },
    {
      "question": "What should a viewer check before sharing the next map?",
      "job": "Resolve the opening question with a usable action.",
      "source": "Synthesis to verify",
      "followUp": "Give us the shortest accurate version, then tell us its limit."
    }
  ],
  "hostCard": [
    "The red colour is not itself a temperature definition. Ask for variable, units and time.",
    "Keep source facts separate from proposed guest questions.",
    "If a local number is unsupported, do not rescue it with a confident voiceover.",
    "Protect the distinction in titles, captions, graphics and trailer clips."
  ],
  "handoff": [
    "Producer verifies guest identity, access and usage permissions.",
    "Researcher supplies versioned source packet and precise asset metadata.",
    "Host receives the one-page card and open questions.",
    "Editor receives the approved claim wording and visual limits."
  ]
}