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TIL an American Heart Association study found that not only did fish oil medication not reduce the risk of cardiac events, but also increased the risk of atrial fibrillation

by whatilearned September 27, 2021, 2:00 am

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TIL while for decades, it was thought that political conservatives are generally more fearful & threat-sensitive, a new study suggests that they are no more fearful or threat-sensitive than liberals, but instead are scared of different things

by whatilearned September 25, 2021, 7:29 am

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TIL that in 1939 an experiment was conducted at the University of Iowa on orphans in which the purpose was to induce stuttering in otherwise normally speaking children. Dubbed the “monster study”, it caused lifelong psychological issues in some of the subjects.

by whatilearned September 23, 2021, 1:43 am

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By taking on poliovirus, Marguerite Vogt transformed the study of all viruses

by HistoryBuff September 22, 2021, 1:29 pm

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TIL of a study which suggests melatonin, the hormone associated with control of our sleep-wake cycles, evolved 700 million years ago from our tiny oceangoing ancestors that would swim to the surface of the sea at twilight and then sink into the depths of the ocean in a sleepy fall through the night.

by whatilearned September 22, 2021, 12:43 pm

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Case Study: How we’ve built a Training Management System

by ProgrammerDude September 21, 2021, 1:53 pm

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TIL it’s possible for complex communications with someone who is dreaming. Researchers of one study found two-way communications during REM sleep is possible when study participants (having confirmed lucid dreams) answered questions correctly via eye movement – even solving simple math equations.

by whatilearned September 20, 2021, 1:38 pm

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TIL that a professor who ran a long running study on a pitch drop missed every single drop. One in 1977 because he went home tired, another in 1988 because he went to get a cup of tea, and in 2000 due to a malfunctioned webcam. When the next drop finally fell in 2014, he had died 8 month earlier

by whatilearned September 20, 2021, 6:38 am

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TIL social category of ‘alpha male’ is a scientific miss. The scientist Schenkel who initially did the 1940s study recanted it, as the alpha male and female he studied in captivity were simply the parents of the group. An alpha male would be the dad who nurtures and plays with the pups.

by whatilearned September 20, 2021, 4:55 am

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TIL Aristotle was Alexander the Great’s private tutor and from his teachings developed a love of science, particularly of medicine and botany. Alexander included botanists and scientists in his army to study the many lands he conquered.

by whatilearned September 20, 2021, 3:13 am

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TIL Freddie Mercury spent most of his childhood in India where he began taking piano lessons at the age of seven while living with relatives. Mercury was sent to study at St. Peter’s School near Bombay. It was here when he started calling himself “Freddie”.

by whatilearned September 19, 2021, 6:20 pm

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TIL in a 2010 Japanese study of more than 95,000 cases of CPR, researchers found that only 8 percent of patients survived more than 1 month. Only about 3 percent could lead a mostly normal life. 3 percent were in a vegetative state, and 2 percent were alive but had a “poor outcome”.

by whatilearned September 17, 2021, 7:20 pm

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