•  Fonzie!   ( @lord_ryvan@ttrpg.network ) 
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    5 months ago

    Jezus, this is bad.

    So many of these are widely known and make up a misconception that doesn’t exist (bananas not on trees… you don’t say??)

    Others are bad plays at words (we have 5 external senses, people often leave the external part out when they talk, so what?)

    And then some are just weird, like the great wall of China being nature (and not visible from space, why go after a random joke from the 90’s?) or how the sizes of the circles are so unnecessarily different, sometimes overlapping with the text

    Just all around, this is bad

    EDIT Oh, and some are even wrong (bats’ vision is so bad compared to humans that they’d be legally blind; sugar gives a energy boost I’m not sure wtf the text is on about with ADHD; evolution is a theory, it just is)

      •  Fonzie!   ( @lord_ryvan@ttrpg.network ) 
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        5 months ago

        Which are the other ones? When I try to look it up, I find 20+ senses but except for the five traditional ones they’re all internal senses such as balance and hunger

        EDIT I see pain, itch and pressure are separate from touch, well TIL!

        •  Devi   ( @Devi@beehaw.org ) 
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          45 months ago

          Fun fact I learned this week, humans have no sense for water, we work out something is wet by combining things, like if it’s cold, if the pressure is different, if it’s moving past us, but can’t actually tell wetness.

          •  0ops   ( @0ops@lemm.ee ) 
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            35 months ago

            I’ve noticed that recently when touching cool things (especially clothes) with latex gloves on; they feel damp, but I know that they’re not. My guess is that the heat draw of the cool object simulates the cooling effect of evaporating water, and the latex glove prevents the texture from giving away that it’s dry.

            •  Devi   ( @Devi@beehaw.org ) 
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              25 months ago

              I think that’s probably it. I know it’s always a game when you get the clothes out the dryer after a while to work out if it’s still damp or if it’s just cold.

    • The sugar one is about the glycemic index. Ingest sugar > blood sugar spike (kiddos with energy) > blood sugar crash (hangry, dysregulated kiddos)

      Of course sugar doesn’t cause ADHD, though; is that a myth people believe?

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        5 months ago

        I was also surprised about that one. Sugar, any carbs really, can cause a energy boost which could be called hyperactivity. Of course it doesn’t cause a diagnosable disorder. The headline and description feel like the author is being pedantic about the meaning of the word “hyperactivity”. A lot of these read like the author is being pedantic about the literal meaning of a word.