Main Area and Open Discussion > Living Room
Science News Roundup
Target:
(see attachment in previous post) He's sleeping....
-4wd (June 18, 2012, 11:50 PM)
--- End quote ---
well, he was here, but when he read this
It's quite often that you'll find great tits in a clutch....usually when attempting reproduction.
--- End quote ---
he rushed off to build a blind...
app103:
The story about the diet soda...
People that do not drink diet soda on a regular basis generally do not like diet soda and think it tastes funny, so it would be reasonable to assume that the pleasure from the sweetness would be differently displayed.
I wonder what the results would be for long time heavy drinkers of diet sodas, that prefers the artificial sweetners and actually think real sugar tastes awful (yes, we do exist). Would sugar light up the same parts of the brain as it would in normal people? Would it light up the parts of the brain associated with bad tastes or unpleasurable experiences?
About the grasshoppers' terror...
Sounds like a survival thing, beneficial to the grasshoppers. If there are predators present, it's not a good environment for survival. By causing less vegetation to grow, they make it an even less hospitable environment for their species, driving them to find greener pastures where there would be not only more vegetation, but less predators, as well.
The study on the success of movies based on advertising costs...
The first rule of advertising states:
He who has a thing to sell
who goes and whispers in a well
Is not apt to get the dollars
as he who climbs the hill and hollers.
It would be reasonable to assume that if he can afford a megaphone, he'll sell even more...and if he can hire more people with megaphones to climb up on other hills, even more.
We could probably repeat the study with similar results here in the US, but based on politicians and the money raised and spent to finance their campaigns, and the election results that follow. This is what all the noise over corporations being able to funnel unlimited amounts of money into campaign funds is all about, essentially allowing corporations to buy elections. The politician with the largest purse, generally wins, and corporations are in a better position to finance political campaigns than private citizens are, very much the same way the big movie studios can buy more viewers than a small indy company can, based solely on the cash available to spend on advertising.
About the milk fats...
There is a good reason why lactose intolerance in most species of adult mammals is the norm.
Stoic Joker:
Tense Film Scenes Trigger Brain Activity[/b]
Visual and auditory stimuli that elicit high levels of engagement and emotional response can be linked to reliable patterns of brain activity, a team of researchers from The City College of New York and Columbia University reports. Their findings could lead to new ways for producers of films, television programs and commercials to predict what kinds of scenes their audiences will respond to.
--- End quote ---
-Stephen66515 (June 15, 2012, 05:18 PM)
--- End quote ---
Right. Because righting a good story is just to hard (to mass produce...). Whats next a photo/sound/light sequence that will cause anyone with a pulse to orgasm for 20min straight?? Christ...If they'ed quit trying to short-stroke human emotions maybe the population wouldn't be so screwed up half the time.
40hz:
If they'ed quit trying to short-stroke human emotions maybe the population wouldn't be so screwed up half the time.
-Stoic Joker (June 21, 2012, 11:32 AM)
--- End quote ---
Maybe if they just short-stroked the population ;) and left emotions out of it, we'd all be better off. And possibly be left smiling a lot more too.
4wd:
Maybe if they just short-stroked the population ;) and left emotions out of it, we'd all be better off. And possibly be left smiling a lot more too.-40hz (June 21, 2012, 12:41 PM)
--- End quote ---
Yep, I think cranio's going to have his work cut out for him :P
Navigation
[0] Message Index
[*] Previous page
Go to full version