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- nutrition - Are live monkey brains a traditional cuisine? - Skeptics . . .
Here is another bulletin board posting with a seemingly very detailed, though uncorroborated story about a live monkey brain being served in a Guangdong restaurant This baidu article describes the supposed procedure used traditionally (100+ years ago): The monkey brain serving table must be specially made
- Was the experiment with five monkeys, a ladder, a banana and a water . . .
The 1 st thing this new monkey did was to go up the ladder Immediately the other monkeys beat him up After several beatings, the new member learned not to climb the ladder even though he never knew why A 2 nd monkey was substituted and the same occurred The 1 st monkey participated on [sic] the beating for [sic] the 2 nd monkey
- medical science - Can breatharians live without food or water . . .
How long you can go without food depends on muscle and fat stores and the body can live off them for quite some time Prisoners on hunger strikes have lived 73 days without food, British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher refused to bend, however The prisoners drank small amounts of water, but refused food altogether
- Will rats given the ability to artificially stimulate their pleasure . . .
The brain basically develops higher pleasure and pain thresholds because link stability is an issue the experiment is Kornblith, C , Olds, J (1968) T-maze learning with one trial per day using brain stimulation reinforcement Journal of Comparative and Physiological Psychology, 66(2), 488-491 Other linked studies
- Does aspartame eat holes in your cellular membranes
Other instances of similar claims specify that Aspartame "eats holes in brain tissue": Early tests of aspartame showed it produced microscopic holes and tumors in the brains of experimental mice, epileptic seizures in monkeys, and was converted by animals into dangerous substances, including formaldehyde
- nutrition - Does it take time for the brain to realize that you have . . .
The logic being that the stomach takes time to absorb the food and the brain takes time to register that fact and the signal that I have eaten enough, is registered 10 to 20 minutes late Somehow, my stomach doesn't really seem to agree While it is true that if I eat only until 3 4th of until I feel full, after a while I don't feel like eating
- Is changing what foods you like a result of changing taste buds?
The book 'How Pleasure Works' deals with this topic Also look into the American Association of Wine Economists They're not what you think But they show garbage wine is as good as top end, and dog food is as good as the best patte What you 'like' is a tremendously interesting topic and primarily directed by your brain and expectation
- Do Macaque monkeys steal money from wallets and use it to buy food from . . .
I saw a video of a monkey using a vending machine on College Humor, but that doesn't say whether monkeys have actually started stealing purses or wallets Specifically, the claim is: Monkeys in Mino near Osaka have learned to steal purses and wallets and take out the coins use them to buy drinks and snacks from vending machines
- Are banana traps effective at catching monkeys?
The container is baited with a banana or something attractive to the monkey The monkey reaches for bait and then, since it will not release the bait, it cannot pull its hand out of the trap It is then captured I Is it effective to trap animals this way? Important note (-; (there is a Simpsons episode where Homer exhibits this behavior
- Is a lack of breakfast the #1 brain damaging habit?
I came across the following list "Top 10 biggest brain damaging habits" Although they're all interesting "food" for skepticism, I will focus on #1, because I find this a peculiar claim Some other claims are already on this site, e g about working your brain during illness (unanswered though!) No breakfast
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