Post by Wolfgang on Feb 23, 2004 14:53:25 GMT -5
I was doing some research on a variety of matters and came upon the following interesting tidbits on the latest scientific frontiers:
- brain activity patterns in men are identical to that of women during orgasms; brain activity patterns in women during orgasm are different from that of women who fake orgasms. Scientists can indeed tell the difference between real and fake orgasms in women. Many people volunteered to be test subjects, forcing the scientists to turn quite a number of them away.
- insightful and creative thoughts generally occur right before sleep, scientists found
- racial or political bias prevents people from using their brain optimally
- one scientist who spent years on research gene sequencing gave up his life's work when, one fateful day in the lab, he scratched his glass substrate under the microscope. He noticed the scratch created partitions in his substrate allowing him to put many different items under one substrate for observation, the partitions separating the items. Thus, he invented the lab-on-a-chip and is now head of his startup company to market his scratched chip technology.
- sugar is good for hindering the spread of cells that foster Huntington's disease, which is bad news for diabetics with Huntington's.
- fear can be untaught by using a pill and lots of therapy.
- if you stare into the eyes of a particular opposite sex for 10 minutes continuously, there is a 70% chance that the two will fall in love, regardless of race, religion, and physical appearance.
- brain activity patterns in men are identical to that of women during orgasms; brain activity patterns in women during orgasm are different from that of women who fake orgasms. Scientists can indeed tell the difference between real and fake orgasms in women. Many people volunteered to be test subjects, forcing the scientists to turn quite a number of them away.
- insightful and creative thoughts generally occur right before sleep, scientists found
- racial or political bias prevents people from using their brain optimally
- one scientist who spent years on research gene sequencing gave up his life's work when, one fateful day in the lab, he scratched his glass substrate under the microscope. He noticed the scratch created partitions in his substrate allowing him to put many different items under one substrate for observation, the partitions separating the items. Thus, he invented the lab-on-a-chip and is now head of his startup company to market his scratched chip technology.
- sugar is good for hindering the spread of cells that foster Huntington's disease, which is bad news for diabetics with Huntington's.
- fear can be untaught by using a pill and lots of therapy.
- if you stare into the eyes of a particular opposite sex for 10 minutes continuously, there is a 70% chance that the two will fall in love, regardless of race, religion, and physical appearance.
