Weird Science

I wonder what happens if you wire up basketball players similarly -- part of NBA pre-draft measurements maybe?

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The researchers recruited 14 collegiate soccer players, with half of them highly skilled, and seven graduate students who did not have formal soccer training. All 21 subjects were men. As one part of the experiment, a series of photographs showing different arrangements of two defenders and three offensive teammates from a first-person perspective was displayed. The participants had to push a foot switch button if a pass downfield between two defenders was possible.

The reaction time was significantly shorter in the higher skilled group than in the novice group, and variability was small in the higher skilled group. Furthermore, electroencephalographs revealed the neural waveforms that showed stronger processing of inhibition, which restrains a motor response, in higher skilled players.

https://www.sciencedaily.com/release...0418111823.htm

Light without heat evaporates water... wild!

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In a series of painstakingly precise experiments, a team of researchers at MIT has demonstrated that heat isn't alone in causing water to evaporate. Light, striking the water's surface where air and water meet, can break water molecules away and float them into the air, causing evaporation in the absence of any source of heat.

https://www.sciencedaily.com/release...0424160652.htm

That IS wild.

Excuses, excuses, excuses...

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?These are disorders of arousal,? said Schenck, who has studied parasomnias for decades. ?They most often occur during the slowest, deepest stage of sleep, called delta sleep. It?s like an alarm or trigger goes off in the central nervous system, and you go from your basement to your roof in no time flat.

?Your cognition is deeply asleep, and you?re not with the program, but your body is activated,? Schenck said. ?That?s dangerous because then you start walking and running and doing all sorts of things without your mind being awake.?

It?s difficult to study sexsomnia, because unless people injure themselves many have no idea of their unconscious sexual activity until a bed partner tells them about it.

https://www.cnn.com/2024/04/28/healt...ess/index.html