#weird research

[itsonlythefirstdraft]

Thinking about all the things you had to research

...And how weird/random some of it was:

[meadowslark]

The Association between Sugar-Sweetened Beverages and Male Pattern Hair Loss in Young Men

We performed this study to investigate the association between sugar-sweetened beverage (SSB) consumption and male pattern hair loss (MPHL) in young men. We conducted this cross-sectional study from January to April 2022 in mainland China. Young people aged 18–45 years (n = 1951) were recruited from 31 provinces in China. We used a self-reported online survey for data collection. We explored the associations between the amount/frequency of SSB consumption and MPHL by using a binary logistic regression model, with adjustments for sociodemographic, hair status, dietary intake, lifestyle, and psychological factors. Among the 1028 participants (27.8 ± 7.2 years) in the final analysis, we found that high SSB consumption is associated with a higher risk of MPHL. We recommend more support to decrease SSB consumption among young people to minimize negative health outcomes.

Do you know a young man? Buy them BEER!

[crunkmouse]

Is he wearing a black shirt underneath his cassock? It would make sense since that’s most likely where his clergy collar is attached.

Gif by @thetorontokid

The dark lighting of this scene made it hard for me to really notice it at first. Now I’m sure the collar was loose for the scene to make it easier to pull away, but in reality on the back of the shirt there’s kind of button hole for a stud to go that holds the clergy collar in place there and then another in the front. (Short video on clergy collars)

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[crunkmouse]

Of course

Are we talking 17th century or mailman?

[foobar137]

DMing: Like writing, only with even less control

Turns out that setting up an adventure can cause even weirder search history than writing can.

I really didn’t expect planning a Shadowrun adventure to cause me to search typical size of a dairy barn or how many cows you can support per acre.

[theothersarshi]

I’ve been trying to write a book about the cult I was in for years. The book has taken many forms. It’s seeped in through some short stories I was writing. It was a book in itself that was a kind of weird post-modern magical realism thing. It was a scholarly book for a while. It was deeply personal. It was less personal.

Right now it’s a personal thing, but it’s also got a lot of research and a bunch of info I’ve gathered from everywhere in time - which makes so much sense, considering that I’m a freakin’ geek who can’t let things go. 

So I’m kind of going through topics, trying to figure out chapters and shit. The worst part of it all is that I’m used to writing fantasy, and fantasy is simple.

Not in the sense in which it’s easy to write fantasy, but people come in suspending their disbelief. I tell them, “There was a castle made of sapphire and it floated above the desert” and people will believe me that this is what everyone in the story sees.

This book is hell because people come in judging. I know that if I say things, they won’t believe me. They will challenge me. They won’t believe that the people in this book really saw things that way.

Anyway. 

Once upon a time, there was God, who was the one and only God, who is the God in Christianity, although not in the finer detail. And God had many aspects, of which some were male and some were female. The supreme male aspect is called Shiva. There are ten supreme female aspects, and they’re all called Shakti, and they’re Kali, Tara, Tripura Sundari, Bhuvaneshvari, Tripura Bhairavi, Dhumavati, Kamalatmika, Chinnamasta, Bagalamuki, and Matangi. And men were to try to be Shiva, and women were to try to be Shakti.

In order to become akin to God in any aspect, these people were to burn their karma through spiritual practice - and spiritual practices were many. Some were yogic asanas. Others were meditations. Yet others were volunteering to work for free. They were to dedicate their days and all their actions to an aspect or another of God, so that he would take the karma created by those actions from them, so it wouldn’t be visited upon them in another life. At the end of karma, they would reach spiritual Liberation and become one with God, so they were to burn karma as quickly as they could.

And they would have to become better people and to change their bad ways. They were to love, and to be kind and compassionate, to be brave and wise. By becoming perfect beings, the world would be theirs and their suffering would be ended.

Somehow, all of this ended in suffering. People lost their homes and their health, and sometimes others shunned them for things they’d done in good faith and in the hope that, one day, they’d be wise, and perfect, and wonderful, and untouched by the things of this world.

[toptenznet]

10 Strange Research Projects Done About Sleep

Our newest Top 10 List can be found here: http://www.toptenz.net/10-strange-research-projects-done-about-sleep.php - written by Gregory Myers

#toptenz

[weird-research-blog]

Should you drink water, in wich a dead body was/is in?

Short answer: Nope

Long answer: The human itselfe is not the problem. Because a body that died out of the water is decaying. That means the body becomes carbon dioxide, water and urea. None of those are harmfull to persons in resonable amounts. A water-corpse on the other hand is not decaying, but rotting. The key difference is the oxigen, that a water-corpse doesn’t get. So instead of water, carbon dioxide and urea it becomes a lot of other things, including propionic acid, acetic acid, butyric acid and ethanol, but also substances like cadaverin, which is btw also found in sperm and is kinda toxic, or putrescine which is really toxic. That means, that eating a water-corpse, or drinking the water it has lain in, is definitely worse then eating a normal corpse. You should be aware though, that because humans are relatively big beings, the oxigen doesn’t reach the inside of the body. Meaning that in the middle, there is the same procedure going on as  everywere in a water-corpse.

Source: It was basically all from Wikipedia (sorry fifth grade teachers) but since I had to do a lot of clicking around, I thought why not sum it up.