In the center of Harvard Square in Cambridge, you'll find over five dozen flowers hanging neatly in organized rows. As pretty as the flowers look walking by, they are conveying an important message.

The installation is called "Heat Blooms" and it was created by University of Massachusetts Amherst professor Carolina Aragón. The public art serves as a visual thermometer that interacts with the weather to highlight the dangers of extreme heat in Massachusetts.

"Heat has the biggest impact on our health. And one of the things that is hard is that it's usually invisible. A tornado we can see, flooding we can see, heat we can't see so much," said public artist and professor at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, Carolina Aragon. "The idea about this is to call attention to the health t

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