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Comment on You know your ‘type’? It’s stress dependent… by Aimee Whitcroft

Aimee Whitcroft — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 02:21:03 +0000

I must admit, I hadn’t thought of it that way :)

Comment on You know your ‘type’? It’s stress dependent… by theobrandt

theobrandt — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 02:09:40 +0000

spooky- these were all normal sighted German Uni students with no facial hair, tattoos or piercings. starting to sound like an Aryan experiment esp. since they also saw nekkid (sic) ladies with faces morphed to look like other participants! thoroughly worth the 20 Euros I’m sure to take part.

Comment on How to get sober quicker by ENERGy!!!!!?

ENERGy!!!!!? — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 23:07:52 +0000

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Comment on You know your ‘type’? It’s stress dependent… by Alison Campbell

Alison Campbell — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 23:07:26 +0000

Never you, Aimee :-)

Comment on You know your ‘type’? It’s stress dependent… by Aimee Whitcroft

Aimee Whitcroft — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 21:49:59 +0000

Hehe. The paper induced that the response, or my writing about it?

Comment on You know your ‘type’? It’s stress dependent… by Alison Campbell

Alison Campbell — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 21:48:33 +0000

Yep, he misses the point entirely; I read his article & thought, ’sigh….’. Mind you, the paper you write about, Aimee, induced a similar response :-)

Comment on You know your ‘type’? It’s stress dependent… by Aimee Whitcroft

Aimee Whitcroft — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 20:22:48 +0000

I’ve just read the article. Yeesh… I think he’s trying to be funny, but having missed the point of the original experiment into which he lays, I think it’s all downhill from there.

Comment on You know your ‘type’? It’s stress dependent… by Darcy Cowan

Darcy Cowan — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 19:00:55 +0000

Did you see the anti-science rant by Paul Thomas on the Herald website that mentions this work?
Here’s a nice little quote:
“And that, my friends, is why we’re not scientists with big, fat, research grants, often courtesy of the taxpayer, which enable us to spend our working lives dreaming up wacky experiments which generate pointless knowledge. ”

I’ve never read this guy before, is he just attempting to be funny or what?

Comment on Why GeoNet rocks my world by Aimee Whitcroft

Aimee Whitcroft — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 05:01:19 +0000

I think you mean pr0n :)

Comment on Why GeoNet rocks my world by Daniel Collins

Daniel Collins — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 04:55:40 +0000

Geo-porn!

Comment on How to get sober quicker by Anna Sandiford

Anna Sandiford — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 02:06:39 +0000

Aha! The Blood/Breath/Urine Alcohol Calculation expert in me foresees problems (and therefore potential defences) in the criminal (and insurance) case sector if oxygen-enriched drinks are marketed by alcohol manufacturers….. not only in the usual drink-drive cases but also assaults and such like where alcohol is a factor and particularly where forward- and back-calculations are undertaken to estimate blood/breath/urine alcohol concentrations at different times in a series of events, these being the calculations that factor in elimination rates based on published ranges (in NZ, alcohol is a factor in a quarter of all traffic offences, a third of violence (including domestic) cases and half of all serious violence cases).

Comment on How to get sober quicker by Brendan Moyle

Brendan Moyle — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 01:55:39 +0000

In drinking contests in Northern China I was knocking back water between toasts of moltai as fast as I could manage. Didn’t help that I had to drink toasts 3 times as fast as anyone else.

Superoxygentated water sounds even better…

Comment on How to get sober quicker by Aimee Whitcroft

Aimee Whitcroft — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 01:28:35 +0000

Nah, somehow I doubt it. The only reason superoxygenating alcohol is useful is that it speeds up the oxidation process – I can’t imagine what superoxygenated water would help with (unless you were drinking that while drinking alcohol, which is unlikely I should think).

Comment on How to get sober quicker by Robert McCormick

Robert McCormick — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 01:10:25 +0000

Does this mean that the people that super-oxygenate drinking water and sell it as a panacea actually have something going for them?

Comment on Incredible infographic: the evidence for health supplements by Aimee Whitcroft

Aimee Whitcroft — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 03:57:04 +0000

Iron deficiency is definitely a serious issue in NZ, though. Hence my asking at which conditions Repton had been looking…