Iirc trees aren’t a cladistic group; “tree” is a word that describes a phenotype. Bananas absolutely grow on trees because “a tree-like herb” is a tree.
Edit: adding salt to water does change the boiling point. The amount is simply not enough to be significant most of the time. Similarly, the coriolis effect does affect the movement of water in toilets, just not enough to be noticeable.
Edit2: multi-personality disorder isn’t a thing. Disassociative Identity Disorder (DID) is what’s being referenced.
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)
we have more than 5 external senses tho
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!
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.
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.
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.
Yup! Just put water in a plastic bag and feel it! It’ll feel so wet on the outside even though it isn’t! Clitch in the matrix!
The guy you’re replying to doesn’t realize this post is written for people like him, while OP doesn’t realize that dumb people who think we only have 5 senses don’t believe in science anyway.
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?
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.
Saying a Jihad just means “Struggle” is like saying a Crusade is just an expedition of people marked by the cross.
Like, sure, if only translate it literally and you ignore all the historical context.
I mean not really. Greater jihad is a fully inner struggle to be a good person. Lesser jihad is about converting others, the lesser jihad of the pen/tongue is about debate and proselytizing, onky jihad of the sword is about violence and only those in active combat. For all Muslims the greater jihad is the most important part, and for 95% of Muslims the jihad of the pen is the only relavent part. In the Qur’an there are roughly 30 references to greater jihad, and 10 or so for the lesser jihad.
And most Christian Crusades are about making gay people scared, not conquering Jerusalem
MSG = headaches is actually true for many people.
"Effect of systemic monosodium glutamate (MSG) on headache and pericranial muscle sensitivity :
“We conducted a double-blinded, placebo-controlled, crossover study to investigate the occurrence of adverse effects such as headache… there was a significant increase in reports of headache…” SOURCE
In addition, if you add oil to your cooked and drained pasta, it absolutely stops it from sticking vs. not adding oil. Just don’t add it to the water, as it’s just wasteful.
If you look at the sources, they corrected it.
Oh, wow. I can’t even see that sources are listed when using Voyager because if you swipe up to see it past the voting overlay, it closes the image.
Glad they corrected it 🤗
The “we have more than 5 senses” insistence, while interesting, misconstrues what is typically understood as a “sense” by the average person.
When children are taught what the 5 senses are, i.e. seeing, hearing, touch, taste and smell, these are more literary senses than scientific ones. (In another vein, it’s like disagreeing whether a tomato is a vegetable, fruit, or both – scientists and cooks have different definitions!)
Proprioception, the unconscious spatial perception of your body parts, falls under “feel.” Hunger and thirst do, too. I feel hungry, I feel that my leg is below me, I feel off-balance. These scientifically-defined senses fall under one literary sense or another.
Since this is just a mangling of definitions, it’s almost irresponsible to call the five-senses thing a misconception. That being said, it did interest me; did you know that endolymph fluid in our ears uses its inertia to tell us what’s going on when we turn our heads? ツ
It turned out Purple Aki was actually real though.