Top Items About Experiments

Type	Title	Teaser	Author	Views	Rating
Anecdotes	Luis Bunuel on the audience reaction to Un Chien Andalou	Luis Buñuel the surrealist was more interested in artistic than political revolution, yet he mocked purely aesthetic...	root	90
Jokes	Joke about Doctors, Restaurants and Surgery	A man visits his doctor complaining that he can`t maintain an erection. The doctor tells him that the muscles at the base...	Anonymous	86
Trivia	How often do people lie?	In 2004, Cornell University professor Jeff Hancock, asked 30 students to keep a communications diary for a week, noting...	root	86
Anecdotes	1492?	In 1942, on a squash court beneath the stands at Stagg Field at the University of Chicago, famed Italian physicist...	Anonymous	80
Anecdotes	Author uses Adwords to choose his book's title	In Super Crunchers, Yale law and management professor Ian Ayres explains how human intuition and flair are easily beaten...	root	76
Anecdotes	Can fear be switched off using receptors in the brain?	In November 2007, University of Tokyo researchers working with mice reported the results of a curious experiment....	root	74
Trivia	Elephants can tell friend from foe using scent	Elephants can tell whether a human is a friend or foe by their scent and colour of clothing, according to scientists from St.	root	73
Trivia	Study on smiling & physical attraction	"The secret of making oneself attractive to someone is simply to smile and look them straight in the eye, scientists said...	root	72
Trivia	Doping & the placebo effect	An analysis published a few years ago [c. 2004] suggested that perhaps a third of medically approved drugs might be acting...	root	65
Anecdotes	World`s Funniest Joke?	One Saturday evening in June 2001, as part of Dr Richard Wiseman`s campaign to identify the world`s funniest joke, he...	Anonymous	59