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Cheese Caves that are part of government conspiracies, vegetarian crocodiles that want to eat children but can't because it is unethical, and British high society all come together in a study about your cheesiest dreams. Only here on Science Snacks!

Cited Sources: 

https://www.npr.org/2005/09/16/4851485/study-eating-cheese-can-alter-your-dreams

http://web.archive.org/web/20060115000115/http://www.cheeseboard.co.uk/news.cfm?page_id=240

This episode is all about the science behind the types of orgasms, specialty vibrators, and sexiest thing of all: data tracking and trending. Only on Science Snacks!

Citations:

https://www.jsm.jsexmed.org/article/S1743-6095(22)01328-5/fulltext

https://blog.lioness.io/orgasm-patterns-using-the-lioness-f9b55b7834de

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/7181645/

A tweet came out that gained millions of view saying, "...Put Tetris on your phone and the phone of somebody you love today. It's literally a trauma first aid kit." They were referencing some scientific papers that we look at in this episode, only on Science Snacks!

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Gender, age, stress, pain killers, hormones and so many other things are thought to affect pain during and after tattoos. But what does the research say? 

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7767267/

Today we are looking at the Big 5 Personality Types and how they affect your video game preferences, frustrations, and enjoyability. We explore what your games say about you and what you can do to pick games that are a better fit according to research from Quantic Foundry. 

We mention the following links: 

Gamer Profile Quiz~ https://apps.quanticfoundry.com/surveys/start/gamerprofile/

Big 5 Quiz~ https://openpsychometrics.org/tests/IPIP-BFFM/

Papers:

https://quanticfoundry.com/2015/12/21/map-of-gaming-motivations/

https://quanticfoundry.com/2016/01/05/personality-correlates/#:~:text=We%20found%20significant%20correlations%20between,score%20higher%20on%20Immersion%2DCreativity.

We read a paper that seems to suggest caution on vaping, pointing out both known and unknown dangers. With increasing popularity with teens and your adults, the authors have some concerns. Share with me what you think, here on Science Snacks!

I spent the last few months doing a deep dive into modern exercise science to improve my own understanding of how I could improve my fitness. While doing so, I made a handful of regular episodes, but it was about time everything was put into one single episode. Compressing more than two dozen papers that give a clear overview to get you fit according to science; Some might just call that snackable, like us here on Science Snacks!

The title says it all, but we explore a paper that says pretty concisely what gender biases may look like and talk about what the present research is saying, only on Science Snacks!

Examining a paper from 2019, we explore the history of steroid use, who is using them, how many people are, and the dangers associated with steroid use, only on Science Snacks!

Okay it is literally called diet soda but does it actually help with weight loss? We explore a brand new paper that claims to have the final say on this topic, here on Science Snacks!