August 2009
21 posts
Playing Tetris soon after a traumatic experience...
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Researchers at Oxford University showed 40 volunteers a series of images depicting serious injuries. Thirty minutes later, half of the volunteers played Tetris for 10 minutes, while the other half did nothing. Over the next week, those who had played the game experienced far fewer flashbacks to the disturbing images. The research team suspects that because Tetris’s spatial game...
Most Will Torture If Ordered
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The majority of people will deliver painful electrical shocks to others if told to do so by an authority figure. Researchers at the University of Santa Clara set up a study in which participants were told to hit a button that delivered an increasingly intense electrical shock to other participantswho were being punished for answering questions incorrectly. Seventy percent were...
Men looking at male porn produce more sperm
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Studies have shown that men who looked at porn of two men and one woman produced more sperm than those who looked at just women. Scientists speculate that seeing competition makes men step up their baby-making capacities.
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In Britain, two women were killed in 1999 by...
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