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Does Organic Food Make You Act Like A Jerk?

5/23/12 5:24pm by scicurious
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What researchers found was that after viewing organic food pictures, people rated moral transgressions as being worse than people who saw the normal or comfort foods rated them. Those seeing organic also said they could volunteer significantly less time to help out. The results persisted no matter what the subjects thought of the desirability of the food. Seeing the organic food made people less nice, not nicer.  Read more >

Did You Marry A Cheater? Or, 4 Ways to Tell A Study Is Baloney

3/5/12 10:54am by scicurious
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Sure, this is a survey of 7,000 respondents, looking at engagement month and cheating. But does it mean that people getting engaged in February, December, and June are going to face a cheating spouse? It's time we looked at this thing with a skeptical eye. And this study has a lot to tell us. In particular, it's got all of the rules that allow you to determine whether the study you're looking at is total baloney.  Read more >

Does Wi-Fi Nuke A Man's Sperm?

12/14/11 10:46am by scicurious
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There was small rumble about it in the news on Monday, but that rumble was from Reuters, and pretty soon it was EVERYWHERE. The BBC, even YAHOO had something about it: the WI FI is coming for our men's SPERM! No one's sperm is SAFE! WHATEVER SHALL WE DO!?!?! I'll tell you what we shall do. We shall look at this paper, and we shall READ it. And we will point the bright light of SCIENCE at it and find out if it's true that WI FI nukes human sperm.  Read more >

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Scicurious is a PhD in Physiology and a practicing scientist. She blogs at Scientific American Blogs The Scicurious Brain and at Scientopia's Neurotic Physiology. Her writing has appeared on various sites including the Guardian and Scientific American magazine, and she has been published in three edition of The Open Laboratory: The Best Science Writing on Blogs. She is the 2011 Winner of the Three Quarks Daily Prize in Science Writing and has been nominated for Eureka's top 30 Science Blogs.

Her professional interests are in neurophysiology, specifically the interactions of neurotransmitter systems. Having obtained her PhD, she wishes to further her career in science writing, education, and research, and loves writing about the latest and funniest research for the public. She often blogs in the third person. You can follow Scicurious on Twitter as @scicurious.

 

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