Facts-Chology

Have you ever wondered if robots scream at night? No? We did and we at Facts-Chology love to dissect weird questions that make you think.

Today's question leads us down a rabbit hole on screaming, sleep, robots and pain, and what that strange sound is that some devices make.

Learn a few things about a lot and whether robots scream at night on today's episode of Facts-Chology!

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Sources
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/15130552/

https://www.therobotreport.com/4-overheating-solutions-for-commercial-robotics/

https://www.howtogeek.com/297166/what-is-coil-whine-and-can-i-get-rid-of-it-on-my-pc/

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-athletes-way/202104/why-do-people-scream-screaming-conveys-least-6-emotions

https://www.sciencenews.org/article/robots-feel-pain-artificial-intelligence

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electromagnetically_induced_acoustic_noise

Why is it that a picture of yourself can look so different than what you see in the mirror? What happens in your phone or camera that forces a sort of uncanny valley effect on yourself?
At least you can rely on the mirror to always show you an accurate representation of what you look like... or can you? What tricks is your brain playing on you to make you believe you look different than you actually do?

Find out how phones, your brain, and the future of technology can and will change your appearance on today's episode of Facts-Chology!

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Sources
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/08/180802141601.htm

https://www.insider.com/samsung-phones-default-beauty-mode-camera-airbrush-2016-6

https://www.movaglobes.com/blog/why-all-world-maps-are-wrong/

https://www.twowaymirrors.com/non-reversing-mirror/

http://socialpsychonline.com/2016/03/the-mere-exposure-effect/

https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/asymmetrical-face

Plenty of philosophers have long thought the idea of what reality is. How can we be so sure what we experience everyday is the true version of reality? What about dreams? Dreams have been studied for thousands of years and we still are not too sure what their purpose is.

On today's episode of Facts-Chology we explore the "dream argument" and look at our physical reality to find out it it even matters.

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Sources

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zhuangzi_(book)#%22The_Butterfly_Dream%22

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/reality

https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg21528841-100-reality-how-can-we-know-it-exists/

http://www.esalq.usp.br/lepse/imgs/conteudo_thumb/The-Illusion-of-Reality---The-Scientific-Proof-That-Everything-is-Energy-and-Reality-Isnt-Real.pdf

https://www.livescience.com/38234-is-reality-real-or-not.html

https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/284378

https://gizmodo.com/why-freud-still-matters-when-he-was-wrong-about-almost-1055800815

https://www.sleepfoundation.org/dreams

https://www.ucl.ac.uk/~ucgajpd/medicina%20antiqua/sa_dreams.html

Sometimes the smallest organisms can make the biggest changes, in this case, can mushrooms make it rain? What about rain? How does rain even... happen? Just how instrumental are mushrooms to rain all over the world?

Find out on today's episode of Facts-Chology!

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Sources
https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0140407

https://www.newscientist.com/article/2141757-fungi-use-water-droplet-cannons-to-fling-spores-into-the-breeze/

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10453-016-9422-x

https://www.businessinsider.com/fungal-spores-seed-rain-water-droplets-clouds-2016-3

https://totalgardener.com/how-do-mushrooms-reproduce/

https://www.theguardian.com/sustainable-business/2017/jul/10/100-fossil-fuel-companies-investors-responsible-71-global-emissions-cdp-study-climate-change

https://www.nationalgeographic.org/encyclopedia/rain/

In 1984 McDonalds would run a marketing promotion they expected to increase traffic, give out free food, and promote the Olympics. But a series of world events stemming from 1979 ended up costing McDonalds millions. 

Listen to the whole story on today's episode of Facts-Chology!

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Sources
https://www.nytimes.com/1984/08/10/business/advertising-big-mac-s-olympic-giveaway.html

https://opportunitymarketing.co.uk/blog/fantastically-flawed-marketing-campaigns-mcdonalds-1984-olympics

https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/carter-announces-olympic-boycott

https://www.eatthis.com/big-mac-cost/

https://www.latimes.com/sports/olympics/la-sp-mcdonalds-olympics-20170616-story.html

https://ycharts.com/companies/MCD/revenues_annual

https://www.mashed.com/148375/the-truth-about-how-many-burgers-mcdonalds-has-sold/

https://everysecond.io/mcdonalds

https://www.economist.com/big-mac-index

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_McDonald%27s#Timeline

One of the oldest thought experiments to exist is the Ship  of Theseus, it questions whether an item stays the same even if every part is changed... sounds boring to some, but what if we weren't talking about a ship? What if we were talking about you? At what point are you no longer you?

Question everything on today's episode of Facts-Chology!

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Sources
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/does-body-replace-itself-seven-years/

https://www.nature.com/articles/nature.2017.22321

http://book.bionumbers.org/how-quickly-do-different-cells-in-the-body-replace-themselves/

https://www.businessinsider.com/how-long-it-takes-the-body-to-grow-hair-nails-cells-2018-4

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/05/200507131311.htm

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ship_of_Theseus

https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/hyperthymesia

In 1859 a pig wandered into Lyman Cutler's farm and began eating his potatoes. Lyman pull out his rifle and killed the pig, triggering an international incident involving the United States and Britain. One that almost caused a war on the small island of San Juan in the Strait of Georgia.

Find out the whole story on today's episode of Facts-Chology!

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Sources
https://web.archive.org/web/20070110072744/http://www.nps.gov/archive/sajh/Pig_War_new.htm

https://www.canadashistory.ca/explore/peace-conflict/the-pig-war

https://www.sos.wa.gov/archives/timeline/detail.aspx?id=39

https://modernfarmer.com/2014/03/inside-great-pig-war-1859/

https://www.nps.gov/sajh/learn/historyculture/the-pig-war.htm

In 1671, England had endured a couple of wars including two civil wars, one man named Thomas Blood was not entirely happy with the outcome. Not because he cared who led the people but mainly because a new law took away some of his land. As revenge he decided to steal the Crown Jewels and he sort of got away with it.

Find out the story of the Bloody Heist for The Crown Jewels on today's episode of Facts-Chology!

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Sources
https://www.history.com/news/the-man-who-stole-the-crown-jewels

https://britishheritage.com/history/man-steals-crown-jewels

https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/captain-blood-steals-crown-jewels

https://www.historic-uk.com/HistoryUK/HistoryofEngland/The-Theft-of-the-Crown-Jewels/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crown_Jewels_of_the_United_Kingdom#Middle_Ages

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_English_Civil_War

In February 2003 $100 million in diamonds, jewels, gold, silver, and cash disappeared from the state of the art vault in the Antwerp Diamond Centre in Belgium. At the time it was considered the heist of the century and within days a panic attack, a receipt, and a salami sandwich brought most of the men to justice.

Find out exactly how the heist was carried out and how some of the men were caught on today's episode of Facts-Chology!

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Sources
https://www.wired.com/2009/03/ff-diamonds-2/?currentPage=all

http://www.danforthdiamond.com/what-a-world-class-thief-could-learn

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/2781791.stm

http://professionaljeweler.com/archives/news/2003/021903story.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antwerp_diamond_heist

There are a few things every pirate should be, good with his sword, a good tactician, not a betrayer of their captains etc. Calico Jack wasn't any of these. We pick up with Calico Jack after last Friday's episode where he betrayed Charles Vane and led a vote to rid him of the ship.

Find out what happens next in this week's episode of Facts-Chology!

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Sources

http://www.thewayofthepirates.com/famous-pirates/calico-rackham-jack/

https://www.crimemuseum.org/crime-library/international-crimes/calico-jack/

https://www.thoughtco.com/biography-of-john-calico-jack-rackham-2136377

https://www.legendsofamerica.com/ah-jackrackham/