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I launched a thread to talk about bizarre scientific papers. Alas it was written in French but wait no more, here is its English cousin! #improbablescience
A comprehensive review of "conflicts" between bears of men in Bhutan: over 5 years, injury is guaranteed but hopefully, no death is reported #ManVsWild https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0237812
You've spilled your coffee mug AGAIN?!? Thanks to this thorough study, you'll know all there is to know about how the coffee moves inside the cup https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2078152015300377
The observation of 200 animals for 4 years led australian
scientists to the conclusion that the more girlfriends female kangoroos
have, the less kids they gave birth to
#BFFs https://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:d93c8e2
According to this US
study on 1,500 people, atheists sleep better than catholics or protestants. So skip the bedtime prayer and start counting sheep!
https://academic.oup.com/sleep/article-abstract/43/Supplement_1/A76/5847064?redirectedFrom=fulltext
When you ride the subway
, know you're surrounded with microbes, according to this painstaking study of the Mexico subway system: 5 minutes after being cleaned up, the train pole gets back its former bacterial flora
https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0237272
Hay or grass? British
pony-loving vets have studied the impact of such a shift in diet on the gut microbiota of these small equids, by looking closely at the faeces
https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article/authors?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0237869
Czech
psychologists & zoologists studied human reactions facing snake
pictures. They've found that the more venomous snakes are the ones we fear the most. Well done Mother Nature! https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0236999
Canadian
biologists have identified in chocolate a molecule from the flavonoid family which boosts the memory of... snales
https://jeb.biologists.org/content/215/20/3566
What is the state of the art about parachute
efficacy int the fight against gravity? Astonishingly, no randomised controlled clinical trial shows a mortality reduction
PS: do not miss the article footnotes https://www.bmj.com/content/327/7429/1459
... and the long-awaited trial finally arrived in 2018 (in the Christmas issue of @bmj_latest): no mortality reduction with a parachute (but pay attention to the details of the trial, especially the protocol differences between the two groups) https://www.bmj.com/content/363/bmj.k5094
Men
are more biased towards money and success than women
, whatever are their own socio-conomic status. In other words, men are created venal
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/343865164_A_registered_report_on_how_implicit_pro-rich_bias_is_shaped_by_the_perceiver%27s_gender_and_socioeconomic_status
Do you burn more calories by climbing stairs 2 steps at a time or by going at a normal pace? London scientists have recruted 14 volunteers to solve that mystery https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0051213
After lightning
killed more than 300 reindeers in Norway
, zoologists have observed that rodents
have deserted the area for 2 years: fear of decaying carcasses or scare of ravens that feast on them? https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsos.191644
