on the other hand
This is perhaps the most politically insightful psychological study published in the past 60 years. And maybe not.
The study of the problem is Handedness, ideology, and party preferences of state residents: Results of U.S. presidential elections over the past 60 years..
Its author, Stewart J. H. McCann, professor emeritus of psychology at Canada's Cape Breton University, looked closely at data on U.S. (not Canadian) voters from 1964 to 2016 and found that: He says he has discovered striking patterns. High state-level left-handedness was significantly associated with liberal ideology.
What does this mean? McCann distills the answer into her 46-word sentence, which gains more meaning with each dozen readings. Or it doesn't make much sense.
The sentence is as follows: “Such a relationship is speculated to be based on a hypothesized but poorly understood genetic link between handedness, personality, and political beliefs and attitudes; genetic predisposition The effect of left-handedness in the population may have a much larger impact on the correlation. blatant left handed level. ”
Feedback points out that these 46 words, and the paper as a whole, leave a lot to the imagination.
in lonely splendor
A person's individuality shines more when they are alone than when they are with friends.
That's the big reveal in a study called “.Temperament behaviors of sheep tested individually do not correlate with behaviors expressed in the presence of conspecific sheep”.
In particular, researchers from the University of Melbourne in Australia and the University of Edinburgh in the UK say that “vocalization is rare when other sheep are present, suggesting that this behavior is a response to loneliness.”
when nothing is good
James Hodges writes: “In response to your segment about doctors waiting for patients to recover on their own, it's completely part of our job.
“I'm a pediatrician. We take doing nothing very seriously. “Cat-like observation and admirable inactivity” are firmly believed in our world. It's a belief. We often admit patients with viral illnesses for which there is no cure. We watch, we support, and the child gets better.
“There are certainly times when doing nothing is the best treatment. If you have a child who is quite unwell and unstable, getting excited will make the condition worse. We often use the 'minimum response' approach.” This is a categorical way of telling your child to leave you alone. If possible, let your child sleep with your parents so they don't bother you too much. Never force the needle or medicine into it. Experienced pediatric nurses are very good at this (it's truly an art of medicine).
“This is not just children who are acutely unwell. Babies with colic (most of the time) do not become adolescents with colic. There are countless childhood diseases that we do not treat. Depurative purpura is a great example. There are a lot of places where we're treating it, but there's pretty little evidence that it's changing anything.
“Children's physiology is really amazing, and I often feel like a passenger, watching them fix themselves, sometimes providing reassurance and distraction. It's such a great job. .”
(Feedback indicates that, with this letter being an exception, nearly all answers we receive on this question are from retired physicians.)
fresh as an onion
Dimple Devi and her colleagues have devised a way to use onions to extend the freshness of milk.
Researchers based at India's Kokrajhar Central Institute of Technology,Onion peel extract as milk freshness indicator in biopolymer-based intelligent packaging filmsPublished in the magazine food and humanity. When milk spoils, the onionized packaging film changes from pale pink to colorless to brown.
When used in this way, researchers say onions have almost endless benefits. “Addition of onion peel extract to biopolymers decreased water content, water solubility, swelling index, and transparency, and significantly increased antioxidant activity and total phenolic content.'' Utilized agricultural/food processing waste that is generated in large quantities.”
The report does not address the question of how consumers would react to the idea that milk is protected despite not being flavored. – onion.
keep carrying it
As Ken Taylor peruses the ever-growing list of trivial superpowers in his feedback, he asks questions about his abilities. As a teenager, I delivered milk and could manage 6 full pint milk bottles and 10 empty milk bottles. As an adult, I was able to impress my friends by carrying four pints of beer (beer without a handle) with my fingers spread wide and wrapped around the rim. It looks pretty cool as long as you don't drop it. Does this count as a superpower? It's your phone. ”
Ken's calm tenacity as he carries the container embodies the Carry On tradition.
Mark Abrahams hosted the Ig Nobel Prize ceremony and co-founded the magazine Annals of Improbable Research. Previously, he was working on unusual uses of computers.his website is impossible.com.
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