Facts-Chology

Imagine your hand having a mind of it's own, doing whatever it wants whenever it wants. This is real life for some people suffering from Alien Hand Syndrome.

Today we look at the first reported case of Alien Hand Syndrome and how changes to your brain create this alien visitor.

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Sources
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4059570

https://www.healthline.com/health/alien-hand-syndrome

https://n.neurology.org/content/91/11/527

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/ccr3.3166

https://www.medlink.com/article/alien_hand_syndrome

https://www.neurologylive.com/view/alien-hand-syndrome

https://www.neuroscientificallychallenged.com/blog/know-your-brain-corpus-callosum

https://youthneuro.org/journal/article/99/

In 1957 a man ran a 6-week long experiment to see if he could control us. The results caused outrage in congress and a little bit of mass hysteria. What was the experiment? Did it work? What happened next?

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

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Sources
https://exploringyourmind.com/james-vicary-and-subliminal-advertising/

https://books.google.com/books?id=S1YEAAAAMBAJ&lpg=PP1&dq=life%20magazine%20%22mar%2031%2C%201958%22&pg=PA104#v=onepage&q=vicary&f=false

https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-30878843

https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/230122297.pdf

In 1897 a bill was introduced in the Indiana House of Representatives that would have changed Pi and math as we knew it. It passed.

Todays let's find out who was trying to get that bill passed and why Pi is still Pi.

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Sources

https://abcnews.go.com/US/happy-pi-day-indiana-define-pi-32-bill/story?id=61644614

https://www.math.purdue.edu/people/bio/egoins/Indiana%20Pi%20Bill.html

https://blogs.loc.gov/teachers/2020/03/the-time-they-tried-to-legislate-pi/

https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/~alopez-o/math-faq/mathtext/node18.html

https://www.wrtv.com/news/local-news/indianapolis/it-would-have-been-a-laughingstock-hoosier-lawmakers-nearly-passed-the-indiana-pi-bill-in-1897

http://journals.iupui.edu/index.php/ias/article/view/8180/8139

https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/30214/new-math-time-indiana-tried-change-pi-32

https://todayinsci.com/Events/Misc/PiBill.htm

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Autonomous cars are becoming a very real thing but if it came down to it and the car was put in a position where it had to kill either the driver or a pedestrian, who does it choose? That's the tunnel problem.

Today we look at the surprisingly long history of self driving cars, the tunnel problem, and who is working on a solution.

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Sources
https://history-computer.com/asimovs-laws-of-robotics-complete-history/

http://blog.practicalethics.ox.ac.uk/2015/07/the-tunnel-problem/

https://robohub.org/if-a-death-by-an-autonomous-car-is-unavoidable-who-should-die-results-from-our-reader-poll/

https://www.wired.com/2014/09/set-the-ethics-robot-car/

https://robohub.org/an-ethical-dilemma-when-robot-cars-must-kill-who-should-pick-the-victim/

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

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

https://qz.com/1247033/ai-experts-want-government-algorithms-to-be-studied-like-environmental-hazards/

https://www.titlemax.com/resources/history-of-the-autonomous-car/

The 2017 film Logan alludes to Wolverine suffering from adamantium poisoning slowing down his healing factor. Yet we've seen his healing factor act instantaneously in other films, so what is actually going on? And in a perfect world, how long would Wolverine actually live?
 
Today we look at the science of aging, his adamantium skeleton, and the other events in Logan to find out why this 197 year old anti-hero  seems to be closer to a 480 year old Logan.

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Sources

https://consumer.healthday.com/encyclopedia/aging-1/age-health-news-7/aging-and-stress-645997.html

https://www.verywellhealth.com/understanding-cellular-aging-2224234

https://www.verywellhealth.com/senescence-healthy-aging-and-longevity-2224345

https://www.looper.com/160496/the-entire-wolverine-movie-story-finally-explained/

https://www.healthline.com/health/why-do-we-age#life-expectancies

https://www.the-scientist.com/features/how-we-age-35872

https://www.popsci.com/why-do-we-age/

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2128071/

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(11)60908-2/fulltext

https://www.woundsresearch.com/article/cellular-senescence-what-why-and-how

https://www.enjuris.com/hip-surgery/metallosis.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-fructose_corn_syrup

https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/pub/11-630-x/11-630-x2016002-eng.htm

Polygraph machines, also known as lie detectors, are used a lot to determine if someone is lying. The strange thing is they don't actually work.

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

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Sources

https://checkmylists.com/society/criminals-who-passed-polygraph

https://americacomesalive.com/invention-polygraph/

https://www.cvsa1.com/press-releases/killer-passes-polygraph-innocent-man-fails-killer-goes-on-to-kill-again/

https://alumni.berkeley.edu/california-magazine/spring-2010-searchlight-gray-areas/truth-machine

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/detecting-lies-147115783/

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4873061/

https://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/02/books/02book.html

https://spectrum.ieee.org/tech-history/heroic-failures/a-brief-history-of-the-lie-detector

https://scholarlycommons.law.northwestern.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2844&context=jclc

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So many things in life are red and I think some of us never really wonder why. By some of us, I mean me, so after I wondered I found out why and now I'm sharing the facts.

Find out why certain things are red on today's episode of Facts-Chology!

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Sources

https://www1.wsrb.com/blog/is-there-meaning-behind-the-color-of-a-fire-hydrant

https://www.history.com/news/why-are-barber-poles-red-white-and-blue

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0195666311006957

https://spoonuniversity.com/lifestyle/apparently-red-and-yellow-make-you-hungrier-than-other-colors

https://time.com/5533549/history-red-carpet-hollywood/

https://www.businessinsider.com/why-are-fast-food-signs-red-2015-9

https://www.livescience.com/62510-painted-roman-stone-walls.html

It's April Fool's Day! Which surprisingly has a mysterious origin... I guess we could look into it. Find out if we find out where and why April Fool's started on today's episode of Facts-Chology!

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Sources

https://www.britannica.com/science/vernal-equinox

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

https://www.britannica.com/topic/Hilaria-Greco-Roman-festival

https://books.google.com/books?id=LaOwCaPBJk8C&pg=PA16#v=onepage&q&f=false

http://hoaxes.org/af_database/permalink/origin_of_april_fools_day/

https://www.historischmuseumdenbriel.nl/en/visit-brielle-and-environs/historisch-museum-den-briel

The recent MonsterVerse films have leaned into the idea of a hollow earth as a fast-travel system for Godzilla. 
But did you know the hollow earth theory was a real theory scientists believed in several hundreds of years ago?
Find out the history of the Hollow Earth Theory and why it only works in fiction on today's episode of Facts-Chology!

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Sources
https://www.greekmythology.com/Myths/Mortals/Orpheus/orpheus.html

https://image.gsfc.nasa.gov/poetry/tour/AAmag.html

https://historycollection.com/10-truly-bizarre-beliefs-history-will-keep-laughing-night/10/

https://www.wired.com/2014/07/fantastically-wrong-hollow-earth/

https://sjg.lyellcollection.org/content/43/1/15

https://www.wired.com/2014/10/fantastically-wrong-journey-to-the-center-of-the-earth/

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20190503-the-deepest-hole-we-have-ever-dug

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/10961412/Hollow-Earth-conspiracy-theories-the-hole-truth.html

https://www.vice.com/en/article/ywgexk/a-journey-to-the-center-of-modern-hollow-earth-theory

We've all heard the saying, "this is the greatest thing since sliced bread!" but if it's so great, why was sliced bread banned in the United States in 1943?

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

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Sources
https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-44846874

https://web.archive.org/web/20130430045703/http://www.ideafinder.com/history/inventions/breadslicer.htm

https://culinarylore.com/food-history:sliced-bread-was-once-illegal-in-the-us/

https://todayinhistory.blog/tag/1943-ban-on-sliced-bread/

https://www.thevintagenews.com/2017/08/15/wwii-sliced-bread-briefly-banned-usa/

https://historyofyesterday.com/why-america-banned-pre-sliced-bread-12c25bfa4499

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/why-we-have-sliced-bread-116065095/#: