Out of Context Science

ratings of dominance based on smell were only accurate when people were rating the smell of the opposite sex

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—	Can You Smell Personality?

younger children were more likely to hear absolutist statements about Pluto than older children

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—	How children learn scientific thinking from their parents

The cookies and yogurt were estimated to have significantly fewer calories when labeled “organic” and people were willing to pay up to 23.4% more for them.

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—	“Health Halo” - Organic Labels Bias Consumer Perception

Finding fossil vertebrates that died in the act of mating is pretty rare

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—	How species are like pornography

Temporary celebrity is highly unusual and is to be found primarily in the bottom tiers of the fame hierarchy

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—	True Fame Passes the Test of Time

In Mexico there weren’t enough residents exposed to the water to provide plausible statistics.

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—	An Epidemiologist’s Nightmare

Imagine that you switch off the engines in a Boeing 747 mid-flight (don’t try this at home)

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—	Solar planes are cool, but they’re not the future of flight

When this happens, the atomic spin of every atom on the planet should wobble very slightly.

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—	Astrophysicists Test Cosmological Defect Detector

Unfortunately the researchers don’t reveal whether Catholics or Protestants were the most angry or forgiving.

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—	Iconic religious images affect the attitudes of Protestants, but not Catholics.

when water tries to squish you, all your inner juices simply go to the important part of your body

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—	A Pee Shanty

for an animal that is destined to die soon after mating, better to get the loving while they can

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—	Octopuses Get One Chance at Love

In low enough doses, however, these same compounds are hours of pharmacological fun for our own species.

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—	Caffeine buzzed bees have better memory

Why do pre-sperm cells need to be able to “taste” bitter compounds?

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—	What your testicles taste

In prior pilot experiments each of the situations had been shown to elicit either shame — an emotion that tends to be condoned in Japan but condemned in America — or anger, an emotion that is condoned in America but condemned in Japan.

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—	Where Does Culture Shock Come From?