Scientific research is usually aimed at solving something important, although that is not always the case. A growing number of research is only being conducted because the researchers had nothing better to do that day. Many of these extensive, yet useless studies are also financed by tax money, or at least money that could have went to other more practical efforts.
10. How uncomfortable is wet underwear in cold weather?
A study entitled Impact of wet underwear on thermoregulent reactions and thermal comfort in the turtleneckD was published in the magazine Ergonomics In 1994, which to date remains the most exhausting scientific work in the field of wet underwear research. It was not inherently useless, because the study really made an attempt to analyze science behind how wet underwear influences daily well -being and comfort level for ordinary people.
However, most findings did not get any further than the obvious. Eight topics were made to wear a wet underwear of different varieties and to sit in a room for pieces of 60 minutes, and then asked a variety of questions about how they felt. The researchers Concluded that wet underwear does have a ‘significant cooling effect’ on ‘thermoregulating reactions and thermal comfort’, which is just a chic way to say something that everyone already knew all the time – wet underwear feels uncomfortable in the cold.
9. What is the navel fluff made of?
We all notice a little fluff in our abdominal buttons from time to time, which is usually a harmless collection of lost fibers from our clothing, dirt and body hair. This has never really been a mystery, although no one still knows precisely What is there because of a lack of good research into the subject, because this is not the kind of things that most scientists are usually doing.
For Georg Steinhauser – a researcher at Vienna University of Technology – Navel Flint was the limit of human knowledge. For four years, Steinhauser Collected 503 pieces of fluff from his navel and investigated its true nature. He also asked some of his friends for feedback on their own fluff, probably for a number of very uncomfortable bar conversations.
Most findings of the study were exactly what you would expect. After all, it is usually loose fibres From your clothing that forms the fluff, and it is possible to collect less of it if you keep your belly hair shaved.
8. How can I hit someone’s head with a beer bottle?
If you have ever been in or near a bar -field party, you would know that beer bottles are almost the only real weapon that is available for the participants. It is always a good habit to know how you can protect yourself against them, and use them for defense in case things become ugly for you, although we would not go so far to do a full study on the subject, because that seems unnecessary.
However, a group of scientists at the University of Bern strongly disagreed and decided to apply some science to the entire case. They wanted to find out if it is better to hit someone’s skull with an empty full bottle instead of a full, complete with comparisons and formulas that just don’t look necessary, whatever they mean.
After rigorous research, she certain that an empty bottle releases about 30 years of energy when it is beaten against a skull -like surface compared to the 40 J of energy released in the case of a full bottle – a surprising yet completely unnecessary finding.
7. How different are apples and oranges, really?
We have all heard the expression ‘such as comparing apples and oranges’, usually used to compare things that cannot be compared. We are not sure how far back its use goes, although it thinks how different apples and oranges are in terms of taste, color, texture and other parameters, it seems like a fair, non -troubles’ comparison with most people.
However, all of that was not enough for one James E. Barone – A surgeon at the University of New England. He conducted research and wrote a whole paper On the subject, conclude – after hours of careful measurement of details such as sweetness, weight, shape, etc. of different types of oranges and apples – that apples and oranges are actually considerable comparable Towards each other.
6. What makes us ‘cool’?
What exactly does someone make ‘cool’? You could say that it is subjective and depends on the observer. What is ‘cool’ is perhaps completely different for someone else, based on factors such as where you grew up, your current social environment, whether you can play the guitar very quickly, and so on. Most people would leave it at that, although that was not enough for Ian Hansen and Ilan Dar-Nimrod-Twee researchers from New York who decided to further explore the question.
The study concerned students from various colleges that come up with words that they associate with coolness and then rank their friends on those characteristics. The findings were published in the paper entitled Coolness: an empirical examination In the appropriate mentioned Journal or individual differencesAlthough none of them is very surprising. Our idea of coolness, like it Closedis strongly associated with characteristics such as attractiveness, cosiness, kindness and intelligence.
5. Love chickens from attractive people?
Chickens are one of the most common farmers who are found all over the world, although we do not yet understand much about the small birds. For example, do they have the same parameter of attractiveness for human faces as ourselves? Some can say that it is a completely irrelevant question, and any effort that is wasted when answering it must be spent on other more practical scientific activities. However, other, more curious spirits would like to further explore the matter because of knowledge.
That is exactly what three researchers from the University of Stockholm believed in, who continued and conducting a whole study about it. They trained chickens to look at female faces (and vice versa for cocks) and recorded their answers. Fascinating, at least for themThe birds chose the more attractive faces above the others overwhelmingly.
Now we cannot say that it was completely useless, because the study finds some similarities between how people perceive attractiveness among each other and chickens. It suggests that our parameter of attractiveness comes from built -in reactions in our nervous system instead of external factors such as face symmetry. It would be one interesting To be wise, although only if it did not come from a study on a few chickens and, like 14 people.
4. Projectile process of penguin poop
Penguins are undoubtedly interesting beings, although a few scientists of Japan have brought that too far. Their paper entitled Projectile process of Penguin’s Feces and Rectal pressure revise Is easy the most detailed academic work on physics on Penguin -Kak, even if most of us did not even know whether this was in the first place an unsolved scientific mystery.
We don’t go into the details, because we don’t get most of them. The paper uses complicated comparisons and physics at advanced level to analyze the projectile process of all kinds of penguin, and the professional appearance of the whole thing can even be correct. The safest distance to maintain a pooping penguin, at least according to the study, is 1.34 meters (or approximately 4.4 ft). It is useful information, but again, in the first place there was no need for such a study, because penguins pooping on people is hardly a widespread problem.
3. How to minimize the coffee spilling?
It is common to spill your coffee while walking, although most of us do not consider it a problem that is suitable for rigorous scientific research. It’s really just coffee. As you would expect from the general theme of this list, that was simply not enough for the scientists.
Jiwon Han – a researcher from South Korea – extensively studied the different characteristics of coffee and other similar drinks to understand how they spill while walking. It might be the most phenomenal Work on the advanced principles of liquid mechanics And Walking, even if it is still quite unnecessary.
The newspaper concluded that the best way to prevent coffee Marriering is to walk backwards because it ‘changes considerably the frequency characteristics of our hand movement. ‘ That, or hold your cup in a strange, claw -like way, although walking back is still the preferred option if it can be helped.
2. Can Spider-Man really exist?
Is it possible for Spider-Man to actually exist in real life? Spider-Man fans and experimental military scientists have been interested for a while to answer that, although this is not the kind of question that must be answered by science. After all, Spiderman is a fictional character and films and comic books are intended as fantasized, inaccurate versions of reality. That’s what makes them fun.
Some researchers However, there were not convinced and wanted to answer the question decisively where researchers know how – by writing an extensive article with complex comparisons. Eventually they discovered that even if we were bitten by a radioactive spin and even if it gives us spider-like forces they are useless. To climb walls such as spiders and other similar insects, we need about 40% of our entire body – or 80% of the entire front part – to turn into sticky pads.
1. Skrillex vs. mosquitate
We all have our own view of whether the work of Skrillex qualifies if what most people call ‘sick’ music, but if one study from Malaysia has to be believed, it can at least help us to ward off some mosquitoes. Published in 2019, it is actually based on a rather practical rack -That sounds or other types of frequencies can be used to control the spread of diseases transferred by mosquitoes. However, the scope of the research was and for some reason limited to just one of his songs.
They played Skrillex’s ‘Scary samples and Nice sprites’ by mosquitoes and have recorded how it influences them. It appears that the number has a significant effect on their mating patterns and can even be used systematically to control mosquito populations in a certain area. What they cannot be explained in is why this happens, or with which parts of the number the mosquitoes had a problem? They do not make any further attempts to try the experiment with other songs or artists, so we wonder if they are even serious about the whole thing.
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