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Companies can increase sales by up to fifteen per cent with one weird trick: swapping out one model’s face for another in their ads. Consumers hate them! In all seriousness, a study published in Marketing Science tested some new facial selection software with some success—at best fifteen per cent increase … Read More
Are you depressed, despite having every ridiculous thing possible? Unfortunately, that’s how it works: the more stuff you have, the less happy you are. A study published in Personality and Individuality Differences has found that materialism is correlated with unhappiness. Researchers issued a brief survey to 246 people living in … Read More
What’s the big deal, you ask? Can’t the chemicals just deal with it? Well, sort of—but those same chemicals plus your pee can make a whole new set of dangerous chemicals. According to a study published in Environmental Science and Technology, human urine is the culprit behind a couple of … Read More
Viagra may have changed everything fifteen years ago, but there’s some good news if you don’t like the idea of relying on a little blue pill: you might not need it. According to a study published in the Journal of Sexual Medicine, you might be able to cure your ED … Read More
Don’t like BMI as a measure of health? You aren’t alone. It’s dated, nonsensical, and wasn’t even designed to measure an individual’s personal health—it was designed for measuring the level of obesity in entire populations. Anyway, researchers at the Mayo Clinic found a better measure of poor health: waist size. … Read More
