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> Fritz Renner, Inge Kersbergen, Matt Field, and Jessica Werthmann, for showing that drinking alcohol sometimes improves a person’s ability to speak in a foreign language. I thought it was common knowledge?
Some are funny, but not ridiculous. For example, > for their experiments to learn whether cows painted with zebra-like striping can avoid being bitten by flies. This isn't absurd. It is currently thought that the stripes are NOT for camouflage, since simulated predator vision (such as lions) cannot resolve them. It is believed that one reason for the stripes could be to act as a deterrent against flies (how exactly,…
The study debunking blue zones won, but it was some of the best science I’ve ever seen. (Removing false knowledge is more important than adding new knowledge)
Turns out the Mediterranean diet doesn’t help you live to a hundred, there was just a lot of pension fraud in Italy.
Turns out best predictor of Japanese centenarians is if the local records hall was destroyed in World War Two (because the records were replaced by non native speaking records clerks)
test whether eating Teflon is a good way to increase food volume and hence satiety without increasing calorie content. …
Yeah, I don’t understand how this study was deemed ethical, let alone win.
The answer is that it's a study in rats, seemingly (from the abstract) a very successful one. Probably a bad idea to introduce that amount of "forever chemicals" into the environment, but the central idea seems pretty sound.
> Fritz Renner, Inge Kersbergen, Matt Field, and Jessica Werthmann, for showing that drinking alcohol sometimes improves a person’s ability to speak in a foreign language. I thought it was common knowledge?
(And of course there's a Ballmer peak in any case.)
Some are funny, but not ridiculous. For example, > for their experiments to learn whether cows painted with zebra-like striping can avoid being bitten by flies. This isn't absurd. It is currently thought that the stripes are NOT for camouflage, since simulated predator vision (such as lions) cannot resolve them. It is believed that one reason for the stripes could be to act as a deterrent against flies (how exactly,…
Sometimes that means the achievement (or "achievement") is something genuinely absurd. Other times it's not.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
what if you understand quantum physics?
Then watch this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w3ZRLllWgHI
> Fritz Renner, Inge Kersbergen, Matt Field, and Jessica Werthmann, for showing that drinking alcohol sometimes improves a person’s ability to speak in a foreign language. I thought it was common knowledge?
I thought it was common knowledge that it makes you feel like you could speak a foreign language better. I don't think it's that obvious that the improvement would be objective or that others around you would feel the same way about you. (And of course there's a Ballmer peak in any case.)
Participants who consumed alcohol had significantly better observer-ratings for their Dutch language, specifically better pronunciation, compared with those who did not consume alcohol. However, alcohol had no effect on self-ratings of Dutch language skills.
The cacio e pepe paper posted here a couple of months ago won it in the category of physics: https://pubs.aip.org/aip/pof/article/37/4/044122/3345324/Pha...
I cooked cacio e pepe a few times over the past few months specifically because I saw it on HN there! It's delicious. Try it!