Out of Context Science

Good science, badly quoted. Removing knowledge from context and leaving something that's sometimes hilarious, sometimes strange, and, hopefully, completely absurd.

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In studying the geometry and topology of surfaces it often happens that one considers a collection of disjointly embedded circles in a compact orientable surface Σ which decompose Σ into pairs of pants

Pants Decomposition of Surfaces

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Low-Pass Filtering Approach via Empirical Mode Decomposition Improves Short-Scale Entropy-Based Complexity Estimation of QT Interval Variability in Long QT Syndrome Type 1 Patients

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The team calculates that the oldest rock on Earth produces roughly 100 times more gas annually than scientists previously thought.

Earth's deep crust could support widespread life

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The starving females seem to be treating the males as easy prey to gain nutritional benefits

Insect hunger games: Male mantises deceived by starving females

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This suggests that when people can afford to, they will reduce their consumption of sweet potato

How Mobile Phone Data Reveals Food Consumption Patterns in Central Africa

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The least popular dog had only 4% of people say they would choose it.

Picking a New Dog is a Complex Choice

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phylotype G exhibited 'within-fjord divergence'

Microbial Spores Help Scientists Trace Distribution Patterns

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(a) gratitude makes people more humble, and (b) humility makes people more likely to experience gratitude

The Best PsycHoliday Stocking Stuffer!

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An individual female can house hundreds or even thousands of these males in her tube.

Researchers Discover Well-Endowed Bone Eating Worm

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Out of Context Science turned 4 today! Craziness!

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articulation of the skull bones in most of the crania suggest instead that the heads were removed while the individuals still had flesh on their bodies

The Headless Romans: Headhunting, Defeated Gladiators or Natural River Movement?

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The Male Idiotic Theory (MIT) stipulates that the reason men are more prone to injury and death is simply because they 'are idiots and idiots do stupid things'.

The Male Idiot Theory

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The infection is generally treatable with drugs that come with a distasteful array of side effects

Americans May Be More at Risk from Deadly Heart Parasite Than Realized

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Evolution says its better to lose a toe to the cold than to lose all your heat to the environment and die

Winter Gives Me The Shakes

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it could be seen that those who were exposed to Cosmopolitan’s content were more likely to support the idea that women should seek sexual satisfaction however they wished to

Calling It Sex When They Mean Love

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while the difference between 18,000 years ago and more than 50,000 years ago might not seem like much, it made all the difference to the American mastodons

Missing the Mastodon

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After calling the number, diners could decide to either press “one” for a sweeter dessert or “two” for a more bitter one

The Sound (And Taste) Of Music