musical plants
plants grow faster and healthier if subjected to a daily dose of bach's brandenburg concertos. try it.

tastes like chocolate and cures cancer
the benefits of chocolate include the following: antioxidants combat cell damage, endorphins make you feel good, helps with lactose intolerance, helps reduce alcohol intake, chromium controls blood sugar, and it actually fights tooth decay. (usa weekend, 1998)

but will it fly?
apply all the physics that we know to the weight, shape, wing design, and power transmission and control technology of a housefly and you will conclude that it won't fly. we know how to put a man on the moon but we don't know what makes a fly fly. michael is working on it. (michael dickinson) 1999

mind games
chess masters can play chess without a board by verbally announcing the moves and keeping the current state of the board in their minds. jailed chess masters in solitary confinement have been known to play both sides of the board in similar fashion.

the mystery of birth order
of the siblings were you born first? or second? or last? it has a lot to do with who you are. not just nature and nurture but also birth order plays a role in shaping our personalities and our lives. frank sulloway of mit has written a book about this phenomenon.

you remember but you can't recall
after you drive to work i ask you to give me a count of the number of red cars you saw on the road. yes, you do know, and under hypnosis you will recall the exact number. the clutter and background noise of life are filtered out of our consciousness but inexplicably stored.
(btw: memory is unreliable both ways. we forget things that happened and remember things that did not. (henry l. roediger iii, washington university, st. louis). under the right conditions and with some coaxing we can be made to 'remember' total fiction. (elizabeth loftus, university of washington, seattle) NOTE: Watch Derren Brown on C4 for evidence of this!

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weird but true; the world is weirder than science
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