Weird Science

[Uncle Mxy]

https://www.studyfinds.org/robotic-crab-smallest-ever/

[Uncle Mxy]

Disco scallops... really!

https://www.theguardian.com/environm...P=share_btn_tw

[Mr. Oobir]

Love those kinds of discoveries.

[Uncle Mxy]

New theory of decision-making seeks to explain why humans don't make optimal choices

https://www.sciencedaily.com/release...0607121038.htm

[Uncle Mxy]

I predict the kid will be messed up when he's old enough to understand this article:

https://www.insider.com/testosterone...-early-2022-06

Barnaby Brownsell developed a "sizable" penis and pubic hair at the age of 2.
Doctors told his family this was caused by prolonged exposure to his father's testosterone gel.

[Uncle Mxy]

I predict a dating app for this soon.

Weizmann Institute of Science researchers have found that people may have a tendency to form friendships with individuals who have a similar body odor. The researchers were even able to predict the quality of social interactions between complete strangers by first "smelling" them with a device known as an electronic nose, or eNose.

https://www.sciencedaily.com/release...0627125010.htm

[Uncle Mxy]

Score pain meds during the day -- got it!

In the first part of the study, 67 doctors were given empathy assessment tasks in the morning and asked to respond to simulated patient scenarios. These doctors were either at the end of a 26-hour shift or just beginning their workday. The study found that doctors who recently completed night shift showed less empathy for patient's pain. For example, these physicians' exhibited decreased emotional responses to pictures of people in pain and consistently scored their patients low on pain assessment charts.

In the second part of the study, the researchers looked at actual medical decisions made by emergency room doctors in the United States and Israel. In all, they analyzed 13,482 discharge letters for patients who came to the hospital in 2013-2020 with a chief complaint of pain (headache, back pain, etc.). Across all data sets, physicians were 20-30% less likely to prescribe an analgesic during nightshifts (compared to daytime shifts) and prescribed fewer painkillers than were generally recommended by the World Health Organization. "They're tired and therefore they're less empathic to patients' pain. When we looked at ER doctors' discharge papers, we found that they prescribed fewer painkillers," Choshen-Hillel explained.

https://www.sciencedaily.com/release...0627165941.htm

[Uncle Mxy]

People brush their teeth with charcoal and they think exotic metals is a stretch?

Wash your mouth out with shape-shifting metal
You wanted flying cars and robo-butlers. Instead, we're getting tooth-cleaning morphing nanoparticle bots

https://www.theregister.com/2022/07/...eeth_cleaners/

[Uncle Mxy]

https://www.studyfinds.org/camo-crop...rms-pesticide/

[Uncle Mxy]

Y don't men live as long as women?

https://news.yahoo.com/y-chromosome-...183513723.html