Scared of Big Brother? You should be! This is Sandra Tsing Loh, with the Loh Down on Science. Meet Ian Richard, from the University of Sheffield, UK. Richard reviewed church records from Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-century Finland. He found that children born after a brother were almost always smaller than their
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Time heals all wounds—but how about honey? This is Sandra Tsing Loh with the Loh Down on Science. Honey’s been slathered on wounds since King Tut. But did it HEAL or just STICK? Andrew Jull, from the University of Auckland, New Zealand, dug further. He pored over scientific publications, and
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Prepping your taxes? Feeling sad? Wait, that’s a GOOD thing! This is Sandra Tsing Loh with the Loh Down on Science. Adam Anderson, from the University of Toronto, wondered how mood affects concentration. To make two dozen university students happy, he played them a quote, “jazzed-up version of Bach’s Brandenberg
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The Oscars are this weekend! Do we smell…babies? This is Sandra Tsing Loh with the Loh Down on Science. Mark Hauber, from the University of Auckland, New Zealand did a curious study. He tallied up the biological children—and Oscars—for some 100 famous actors. The upper echelon, with annual salaries in
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Do fruit flies get beer goggles? This is Sandra Tsing Loh with the Loh Down on Science, with an unusual Valentine’s Day question. Researchers from Pennsylvania State University staged a bash for fruit flies. They coaxed them into specifically-designed viewing chambers called “Fly Pubs”—transparent cylinders pumped with vaporized alcohol. The
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How to kiss—ingest mints, pucker lips, tilt head? This is Sandra Tsing Loh with the Loh Down on Science. Dianne Barrett, Julian Greenwood, and John McCullagh, from Stranmillis University College in Belfast, spied on kissing couples. On campus, and around Belfast, in pubs, bus stations, at the airport! Of the
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