The phenomenon of British scientists: why do they make their “useless” discoveries? British scientists and their useless research British scientists lurk
British scientists worked tirelessly so that we could enjoy the results of their work. Top most extraordinary discoveries over the past couple of years.
1. The placement of toilet paper as a reflection of a person’s personal qualities. Note to HR department
About 2,000 men and women took part in this study. Scientists found out exactly how people place toilet paper on the holder - with the tear-off end towards themselves or away from themselves and compared the results with the personal qualities of the subjects. The results are as follows: those people who placed the paper with the tear-off end towards themselves have leadership qualities. Those who hung the paper with the tear-off end to the wall are more flexible and suitable for performing activities.2. Sex life improves after 80
Researchers conducted a survey among 7,000 people aged 50 to 90 years and found that among those who are still able to have sex, those in the oldest age category are more satisfied. According to the survey, there are fewer of them who do this “out of obligation,” and fewer of those who are dissatisfied with their partner’s sex appeal. In addition, adults, according to the survey results, are more quickly aroused and are more emotionally close to their partner.
3. You should not give up your seat to older people on public transport.
To hell with parenting rules! Oxford University professor and Public Health England adviser Sir Muir Gray is serious. He argues that to maintain normal well-being, older people need to be active for at least ten minutes a day. This includes walking, climbing stairs or walking. He warns: "Think twice before giving up your seat on a bus or tram to an elderly person. Riding standing up will be the best exercise for him."He is echoed by Scarlett McNally, an orthopedic surgeon at Eastbourne District General Hospital, who believes that many diseases are associated with a lack of physical activity. “The more we move, the better. The simplest exercises - walking along the corridor and squats by the bed - are available even to patients undergoing inpatient treatment. You just need to want to be healthy a little.” It seems that everything is correct, but forcing your grandmother to stand on the bus is somehow not humane.
4. Playing Tetris reduces libido by 13%
Before going to bed, you should not play Tetris, say British scientists from Plymouth University. As it turned out, this game significantly dulls many desires, including basic ones: a person does not want to eat and, even more funny, drink. Well, where does this fit in!
5. Not such a useless discovery: reading is the best remedy for anxiety, stress and worries.
British scientists recognized reading as the best remedy for worries, anxiety and stress. The study found that reading reduces stress by 68%. Just six minutes is enough to relax your muscles and normalize your heart rate.6. Cravings for sweets can replace sleep
Now those with a sweet tooth will not have to beat themselves on the wrist, preventing them from touching a piece of their favorite cake. If you want something sweet, go to bed, say British scientists. Researchers at King's College London have found a relationship between sleep duration and healthy eating habits. Those who sleep a lot try to eat right, they say. Just 21 extra minutes of sleep a day can help you lose several kilograms, says one of the study volunteers. The man went to bed as soon as he wanted something sweet, and over time, his dependence on tasty but unhealthy food decreased noticeably.However, British scientists did not say what to do if the desire to eat a piece of chocolate strikes you at work.
7. Cannibalism was unprofitable for ancient man, so people preferred to hunt wild animals
Hunting a mammoth was more profitable because the hunters immediately received a large carcass, wool, bones - in a word, a lot of useful products, while humans were much less productive. On average, a mammoth carcass provided the tribe with 3,600,000 calories, a woolly rhinoceros - 1,260,000 kcal, and a bison - 979,200 kcal, while a person had only 125,822 calories - and even then, for an average, well-fed man.Therefore, if there were cases of cannibalism in the tribes, they were of a ritual nature.
8. Pigs have their optimists and pessimists.
Pigs can be pessimists or optimists just like people, British scientists from the University of Lincoln have found. The study analyzed the behavior of 36 animals that were offered chocolate or coffee beans in bowls. The third bowl was empty - it was placed between these two.Those pigs that showed interest in an empty bowl were called optimists by British scientists. Researchers are sure that the animals did this in the hope of finding something more attractive in the bowl than coffee beans or chocolate. A bowl of sweet delicacy was chosen by those who are not used to good things and are ready for a bird in the hand instead of a pie in the sky,
9. Beer is liquid medicine
After 18 experiments conducted by scientists from the University of Greenwich in England, it was found that drinking 2 pints of beer (1 English pint - 0.56 l) reduces pain by almost a third, acting as an analgesic. Study leader Dr Trevor Thompson says alcohol can be compared to opioid drugs such as codeine and has a stronger effect than paracetamol. True, it immediately warns about the harm that alcohol can cause to a person.
10. Heading is harmful to the health of football players
Hitting the head with a ball in football is not only inevitable, but common. However, even a few hits are enough for small but important changes to occur in the functioning of a football player’s brain. Scientists from the University of Stirling in Scotland say that after 20 headers, memory function decreases by 41-67%, and it takes at least a day to restore it to its previous level. The scientists' study was published in the journal EBioMedicine.
11. Strategy for winning the game “rock-paper-scissors”
In March 2016, researchers from the British University of Sussex announced that they now knew exactly the strategy for winning the game “rock-paper-scissors.” According to the results of statistical data, a study of people's behavior during the game, they said: the only way to win is without thinking. Those who throw their fingers at random, without thinking about a certain combination, win more often. But even in this case, we should not forget that the chances of winning are one in three.
12. The third one is not superfluous
Scientists from the universities of Nottingham, Bristol and Swansea have calculated the optimal number of sexual partners for future spouses before marriage. It is optimal if there are no more than 3 of them. This is an average figure, because... British men and women showed different preferences for their partners' sexual activity during the premarital period. Women didn't want to marry a virgin, but they also didn't like it if a man had more than 6 women. Men were not against a virgin, but they had a negative attitude if the future wife had more than 10 partners before marriage.
13. Speed of movement of Santa Claus
Physicist from the University of Exeter Katie Shin explains the ability of Father Christmas to deliver gifts in time by the fact that he moves at a speed of ten million kilometers per hour.No comments.
14. Lying out of habit
When asked “how are you”, most people lie, say scientists from the UK Mental Health Foundation. At the same time, men lie twice as often as women, and a third of respondents answer the question vaguely. 1/5 considers this question to be a common turn of phrase. And 59% of those who are asked “how are you” are sure that people do not want to know the details and the truth when asking this question.
15. British scientists discovered the reason for the appearance of British scientists
The very term “British scientists” has long been used on the Internet to mean figures who deal with obviously stupid problems that have a very indirect relationship to science. They regularly publish new research results, but only a small number of them are important for science.Experts from the University of Exeter and Bristol decided to find out where these same scientists come from. In our opinion, Russian users knew even without these studies that the reason for these stupid studies was exclusively mercantile - the grant system that works in the country. It is precisely this that encourages “scientists” to give their projects loud names and talk about equally loud results.
An interesting finding: consciously or not, researchers try to tailor their work methods to the methods of evaluation of projects by the foundations that provide grants. Scientists who propose small projects with big words like “innovative” and “newest” in their titles receive the most money. Such projects are poorly tested, and are often simply adjusted to fit the original objectives. The efficiency of the scientists who work on such problems is very low - therefore, most of the grant is wasted. The researchers see a way out in the fact that funds must be directed to supporting medium and large projects, as well as to a thorough audit of the results provided.
“British scientists have proven that the Earth is not round, but black and crunches on the teeth”
"British scientists have opened another box of whiskey"
“British scientists have found that the most popular message on social networks on Thursday is “Tomorrow is Friday!”
You can find an incredible amount of such jokes on the Internet. And they continue to be generated every day, despite the tediousness of the topic. Mainly because British scientists themselves never tire of coming up with new informational reasons suitable for jokes.
For example, they recently learned why the bone in the connective tissue of the penis disappeared in humans during the process of evolution, and they also found out why some pigs are optimists and some are pessimists.
It is not clear what value these works have, what motivates scientists when they undertake stupid research, and why the UK takes the leading place in the number of mentions of such absurd “discoveries”. It is worth considering this phenomenon from the point of view of meme theory. A meme is a unit of cultural information transmitted from person to person. The concept was introduced by evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins in his 1976 book The Selfish Gene. “British scientists” is a full-fledged meme, and there are several reasons for its appearance.
Britain and science
The United Kingdom has always been considered the most developed and progressive place on the map of Europe. This is a country rich in both resources and people. In addition, historically it turned out that it was in Great Britain that true science began to rapidly develop. Oxford and Cambridge are the oldest universities in the world, and at the same time the most respected in our days.
The English were Isaac Newton, Charles Darwin, James Maxwell, Michael Faraday, Ernest Rutherford, James Joule. This list can be continued until you get tired of talking about scientific discoveries.
At the beginning of the 19th century, during the Regency era, London was the intellectual center of the civilized world. Scientists actively educated ordinary people about their discoveries, and the spirit of a mental revolution was in the air. In 1831, the British Association for the Diffusion of Scientific Knowledge convened its first meeting, at which the main tenet of this organization was adopted - to promote the development of science and work to attract national attention to it. In the same year, the first science festival was held, where scientists from various fields gathered and exchanged research results with each other and with the public. Science was becoming public. Lectures by leading researchers were always sold out. This gave rise to news stories that were happily picked up by the press.
More than 70 British scientists have received Nobel Prizes. In 2016, they also received a prize in the field of physics with the wording “for the theoretical discoveries of topological phase transitions and topological phases of matter.” It is natural that in people’s minds science is nationally assigned to the British. This is the first step to understanding the history of the “British scientists” meme.
The turning point
When did British science cease to be associated with quality and lose some credibility? This is due to changes in the English education system. In the 70s–80s of the 20th century, a reform of educational institutions took place, and various colleges received new status and names. At the same time, they began to have the right to conduct research. Even later, the government merged these former colleges, and 30 polytechnic institutes appeared in the country. Their programs were similar to university ones, but it was impossible to obtain a higher education diploma there. In 1992, they all acquired university status, doubling the number of higher education institutions in England. The number of young scientists and researchers has increased immeasurably; they have begun to compete for grants and funding.
With such a mass of works, attention was given to those that were more suitable “to the topic of the day”, had novelty and were beneficial to someone. In the 90s, the media was full of headlines about strange scientific research.
In The Guardian from 1993, you can find the following article: “Cot death risk is lower among babies who do not sleep alone.” In The Independent, 1996: "Male fish are being 'feminised' by river pollution." BBC September 1998: “Passionate sex aids pregnancy.”
It's all about money
To this day, the UK Government, political groups and private organizations fund science very well. From the European Union alone, the amount of material support for British scientists was about $1.2 billion per year (however, the UK may lose this pleasant tradition with Brexit).
Appetizingly crispy pieces of paper in a wallet in themselves are a good incentive for any activity. And if this is also seasoned with the possibility of obtaining a high index in the citation index of scientific articles, then the scientist can no longer dream of anything else, except, perhaps, saving the world.
This is precisely what was named as the reasons for the appearance of low-quality scientific articles in a recent study by British scientists.
The more citations a scientific article receives in publications with a high impact factor (a numerical indicator of the importance of a journal), and the “newer” the research, the higher the chances that this work will receive grants and material support from interested parties.
The researchers who created a mathematical model of the problem of “bad” articles also suggested ways to correct the situation. First of all, according to them, it is necessary to increase the requirements for statistical samples and procedures for processing results. Some reputable journals have already begun to act in this direction.
Some studies are even commissioned by commercial companies. One day, information appeared in the British press about new work by scientists that dealt with the common myth of the “five-second rule.” This everyday saying states that a product picked up from the floor after five seconds is not considered contaminated with bacteria. Scientists said that this rule is observed, but not on all products. The Daily Mail, where the article was published, later explained that the "research" was sponsored by cleaning product manufacturers. Moreover, the text advised readers to change the “head” of the mop every three months in order to minimize the risk of infection with dangerous bacteria. When they tried to find the authors of the article, it turned out that behind the whole group there is the name of only one person - an employee of the technology laboratory of the City University of Manchester, Katie Les. It was not possible to contact her.
It is especially convenient to speculate in this way in the field of statistics. This science does not care what subject to take for study. Statistical analysis is quite easy to carry out, so it can be assigned to students and the result will be a term paper written according to all the rules of a scientific article.
Illiterate journalists
When scientists are asked directly why their work looks so stupid, they like to answer this way: it’s all the journalists’ fault. And it cannot be said that they are wrong. This is the third factor in the appearance of the meme.
The Citizen (1950), “Scientists have found magic in color”
In the 19th century, England was the center of development not only of science, but also of journalism. At this time, interest in the press increased significantly among representatives of various segments of the population. Publishers and journalists targeted the working class, and by mid-century the English press began to become mainstream. Even the first hints of “yellow” publications appeared. For example, in the 60s and 70s, the Vanity Fair weekly magazines were popular, where they published cartoon-like pictures and had a gossip section. And in 1874, the weekly “The World: A Magazine for Men and Women” appeared, offering readers critical materials written by “gentlemen and scholars.” Thus, the topic of science, popular due to the unprecedented number of achievements and discoveries, began to be covered in low-quality publications.
The results of many studies are still often misunderstood and misinterpreted. In addition, journalists do not disdain “yellow” headlines and materials in pursuit of traffic.
On the Internet you can find the following text, for example: “In the far corner of the Universe there was a planet where precious stones literally fall from the sky, according to the results of a study by a group of astrophysicists from the University of Warwick (UK).” In fact, the gist of the news was that astronomers using the Kepler telescope had found a planet that may contain clouds of the mineral corundum. Its varieties are ruby and sapphire.
The meme owes its stability to the following reasons: the important role of Great Britain in the development of science; educational reforms of the last century; a large share of English scientific publications in the total volume; features of grant policy in the country, as well as orders from commercial organizations; distortion of research results due to lack of understanding by journalists.
For now, British scientists can't escape the stereotypical joke. And we can only wait for the next funny headlines.
The design uses a portrait of the British scientist Isaac Newton by Gottfried Kneller.
British scientists have proven that not all research can be trusted. Three young people, in fact, fooled almost the entire scientific community. They wrote articles on the most meaningless topics, but presented them as real works. And they were sent to reputable magazines around the world. The most amazing thing is that many publications published them.
Do miniskirts prolong life? Do ducks like rain? Did the chicken come before the egg? Every time you read such “scientific discoveries”, you just want to ask the author: are you really serious? And now attention, the correct answer: scientists have proven that the results of such studies can be mere fiction.
The revelation of the century looks like this. Three scientists from Britain and the USA have fooled the elite of world science. They presented their crazy ideas as the results of serious research. And prestigious editors published this nonsense. Here is the response from the editor of Gender, Place and Culture. It is dedicated to the problems of feminism.
Laughter through tears. The authors allegedly determined that men should be trained like dogs and white students should be chained during lectures on the history of slavery. The more absurd the idea, the greater the chances of publication. Scientists have come to the conclusion that no one is interested in the truth anymore. They wrote about this in their appeal published on the Internet.
“The current culture dictates that only certain kinds of conclusions are acceptable - for example, whiteness or masculinity must necessarily be a problem. And the fight against manifestations of social injustice is placed above objective truth.”
One example of such social injustice in the West is the attitude towards transgender people. A cutting-edge scientific idea says that a child can decide for himself whether to be a girl or a boy. That's why the most advanced parents buy women's clothing for their sons. In the USA, uncles come to kindergartens dressed like aunts. And, according to the scientists who wrote the fake articles, the main problem of modern science is that there is a demand for research that only confirms such ideological norms. The recipe for successful publication, in their opinion, is simple.
Let’s take a current problem that is on everyone’s lips – for example, obesity. We add some very advanced idea (freedom of choice), and also add a little pinch of humor. And cook it all until it turns into a single mass. And please, a new theory is ready: “excess weight is not a problem, but a free choice of every person!” It would seem nonsense! But this is a quote from an article in the journal Obesity Research.
In total, seven works by provocateur scientists were published. This theory of the big lie did not arise yesterday, according to the Russian Academy of Sciences. Fake articles, just like plagiarism, are like weeds in the field of fundamental research. Russian scientists are confident that such pseudoscientific works can be recognized, but only if there is a desire.
“The most striking example that I remember is when there was a dissertation on meat, which was copied, simply replacing meat with chocolate by autocorrect. However, everything else remained in place. Red meat has become dark chocolate, poultry meat has become white chocolate,” said Alexander Panchin, a member of the commission for combating pseudoscience and falsification of scientific research at the Presidium of the Russian Academy of Sciences.
When the scientists admitted that they had deceived everyone, a scandal broke out. Some demanded that they be punished, others praised them for their courage and suggested continuing their research. True, the scientists themselves are not laughing now. For these fake publications they face dismissal from universities. This experiment may be the last in their scientific career.
How MEM appeared - "British scientists" January 29th, 2015
Based on common sense, British scientists should not be a meme or a media virus. First of all, they exist. Secondly, they are completely normal people, no worse or better than other scientists. There is no particular reason to single them out from the world community of scientists.
On the Internet, “British scientists” are synonymous with researchers working on completely insane, idiotic and pseudoscientific projects of absolutely no practical value.
British scientists have found that: food quickly picked up from the floor is not considered dropped; that 9 out of 10 ladybugs in London suffer from fungal venereal diseases; that the majority of drivers who violate traffic rules are latent homosexuals. They also found that the average person eats seven spiders in their sleep; bumblebees can catch maniacs; and cats think that a person is a big cat.
These are not anecdotes, but headlines from official press releases from various scientific institutes in Britain. The information is often so curious that you want to know: how did they establish this?
This issue was taken up... by British scientists themselves.
British scientists have found that sometimes they produce fantasies instead of scientific discoveries. Colleagues from Cardiff University revealed where catchy and sometimes ridiculous headlines come from in articles based on the works of British and (not only) scientists. They proved that most false sensations are born not on the keyboards of journalists reporting the news, but in the minds of those who compose scientific press releases: it is PR people who invent sensations.
Or rather, the staff of Cardiff University. It turned out that sometimes the most insignificant research, after processing by those who compose press releases, changes beyond recognition. But it really attracts the attention of journalists, and subsequently of readers, says Dmitry Zykov, deputy editor-in-chief of the Science and Life magazine. Hence the inflated sensations that sell well.
“Sensation is a good, interesting thing, a lot of attention is paid to it. People tend to greatly exaggerate the significance of what they suddenly unexpectedly learned about. This is a purely psychological effect: oh, how unexpected, how interesting. Often sensations appear, as they say, from the heart. People just didn’t understand what they were being told,” explains Zykov.
In these cases, the scientists themselves say the classic thing: the journalists did not understand anything and distorted everything. In fact, failure occurs along the entire chain. At first, scientists did not convey the main idea very clearly; the writers of the press release exaggerated it and drew incorrect conclusions, on the basis of which they gave false advice. And then the journalists fell for the sensation and, without checking with other sources, amplified it and released the news under a catchy headline. The reader read, believed and even began to follow the advice.
But there is doubt that initially everything was intended only for sensation, notes the chairman of the RAS commission on combating pseudoscience, Evgeniy Alexandrov. A certain interest cannot be ruled out, since this is typical of Western scientists. “They crave attention, maybe attracting some funds,” says Alexandrov.
This is impossible in Russian science. There is no need for our scientists to make a name and money from populism. And, as the expert says, there is an almost scientific explanation for this.
“We have always had science in the warm hands of the state; we had no need to communicate with the press. And after the end of the arms race, they became poor with money, and they, so to speak, rushed to the panel to sell products. And maybe they got spoiled,” says Alexandrov. - This is less typical for us. In our country, sensations are generated in the media.”
British scientists- a character in Internet folklore, and specifically Russian. And a note on the Internet that begins with the words British scientists must be absurd, otherwise it will deceive the reader's expectations. British scientists- something like a media virus, but only special, strange, based on reality, pretending to be reality, but distorting it.
Here are some real examples:
British scientists have found that ducks love rain. It took the kingdom's scientists three years and 300 thousand pounds to discover what every villager knows.
Scientists from the British capital began studying the preferences of domestic ducks in order to find out what role water plays in the lives of these birds and what particular methods of bathing ducks like best. Three years of continuous work, a lot of money was spent, and now, in the study of the burning problem, the fat point has finally been reached - birds prefer a shower that imitates rain.
Elephants turned out to be the only “all-wheel drive” animals in the world
Elephants, unlike other four-legged animals, use all four legs for both acceleration and braking. This conclusion was reached by a group of scientists led by John Hutchinson from the British Royal Veterinary College. Hutchinson and his colleagues' paper on elephant gait was published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. A summary of the conclusions reached by the researchers is provided by AFP.
In the study, six young Indian elephants were driven at different speeds on a platform with sensors that recorded the force with which the animals pushed off the ground with each leg. It turned out that both the front and hind limbs of elephants receive the same load when moving at different speeds and with different accelerations. This gave scientists reason to liken elephants to four-wheel drive cars.
In other four-legged animals, the functions of acceleration and braking are distributed between the front and hind limbs: when accelerating, as a rule, the hind legs/legs receive more load, and when decelerating, the front legs/legs receive more load.
British scientists: Drivers spend a year of their lives parking
British scientists have concluded that on average, drivers spend 25 minutes parking every day, reports the Daily Mail.
Scientists have suggested that with such a time commitment, drivers spend 152 hours a year on parking, and if we assume that a driver can drive a car for 50 years, it turns out that he spends at least 11 months of his life just parking the car.
The researchers also note that drivers in the UK spend an average of 120 pounds ($190) per year on petrol when searching for a parking space.
After surveying almost nine thousand British drivers, scientists came to the conclusion that almost half of those surveyed are so shy that they are ready to give up a parking space if they notice another car behind them, especially for women.
Another 44% of respondents admitted that they had lost their car in a parking lot at least once.
Let us recall that last year the British mathematician Simon Blackburn developed a formula that can be used to calculate the parameters of an ideal parking lot.
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And a little more about popular MEMES: for example, and here and of course The original article is on the website InfoGlaz.rf Link to the article from which this copy was made -1. It was British scientists who unearthed the oldest joke in the world. It was invented and written down in 1900 BC. It seems that its authors, the ancient Sumerians, were the direct ancestors of Yevgeny Petrosyan: “Since time immemorial, there has not been such a thing as a girl farting while sitting on her husband’s lap.”
2. British scientists were able to prove that a person can become infected with a computer virus. In order to make this discovery, computer science luminary Mark Gasson had to implant a chip with a program into his hand.
3. British scientists made an incredible discovery in 2003: they found that at least 9 out of 10 ladybugs in London suffer from sexually transmitted diseases. It turns out that when ladybugs return from wintering, they begin to lead a promiscuous sex life, as a result of which they acquire a whole bunch of sexually transmitted diseases. It is not reported whether British scientists are developing a special barrier contraception for lustful insects.
4. In 2007, the best forces of British science were thrown into the development of chewing gum that does not stick to anything, including asphalt. Scientists estimate that London's public utilities spend about £100,000 annually scraping chewing gum from the capital's streets. Researchers have been struggling to solve this problem for 5 years.
5. The best people at the University of Leeds conducted a study designed to calculate the formula for the perfect bacon sandwich. As many as 50 English test subjects helped scientists in this difficult task, trying various samples of sandwiches. As a result, it turned out that the loudness of the bacon crunch while biting into a sandwich should be 0.5 decibels, and the formula for an ideal sandwich looks like this: N=C+(fb(cm) fb(tc))+fb(Ts)+fc ta.
6. Scientists from the University of East Anglia have made a discovery that is useful for many children: it turns out that fish oil is not good for health at all. It is generally accepted that regular consumption of fish oil can reduce the risk of developing heart disease. But British researchers could not find a link between omega 3 fats found in fish and the incidence of heart disease.
7. British scientists spent 300 thousand pounds sterling on studying the interaction of ducks with water. As a result of a long study, they were able to find out that ducks prefer rain, which replaces showers, to all other ways to spend time in the water.
8. Sex is better than masturbation - this is the shocking conclusion that British researchers came to. It turns out that an orgasm obtained during intercourse with a partner satisfies a person better than an orgasm obtained with one’s own hand.
9. From 2001 to 2006, luminaries of British science conducted a study in which 516 experimental drivers took part. It turned out that the majority of drivers who most often violate traffic rules are latent homosexuals. The publication of the study results caused a wave of protests among English and Scottish drivers, but the scientists expressed their willingness to prove to everyone that they were irrefutably right.
10. Another shocking discovery by researchers from Foggy Albion has finally explained to those suffering from excess weight what their problem is. During a scientific experiment, British scientists were able to establish that thin people, as a rule, eat less than overweight people.
11. Scientists from the University of Southampton involved 277 children in one of their studies. By experimenting with their diet, scientists have come to the conclusion that eating food with food dyes and preservatives has a bad effect on children's behavior: children become hyperactive and sometimes completely uncontrollable.
12. A really useful discovery was made by a group of researchers from the Universities of Leicester and Exeter: they found that drinking alcohol does not in any way affect the ability of men to estimate the age of girls. To do this, scientists had to go to bars and interview about 240 drinking Britons.
13. A scientist from Trinity College Cambridge named Rupert Sheldrake made a strong-willed decision to devote his career to studying the phenomenon of telephone telepathy. Rupert suggests that people have the ability to guess who is about to call them, even before the phone rings. In his first study, 63 people took part, and in 45% of cases, the subjects were actually able to predict who exactly would contact them by phone in the near future. In his next works, Rupert plans to prove the existence of SMS telepathy.
