Old Wives Tales | SciByte 13

This week on SciByte we throw science at a few Old Wives Tales ? and see what sticks. Plus we take a look at the science that makes them true, false or somewhere in between.

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• science
• old wives' tales
• myths
• snopes
• rumors
• scibyte
• jupiter broadcasting
• cold
• flu
• influenza
• body heat
• thermodynamics
• thermoregulation
• hemispherectomy
• swimming
• cramps
• eye
• shortsighted
• CRT

[iamsillywarm]

Can you do an episode about the wierd things inQuantum physics?

[jcandreug]

Heather!, wanna be my entangled particle? 

[StrategicGamesEtc]

Please include the strawberry. (and don't say that it was a trick of photography)

[StrategicGamesEtc]

17:39

[StrategicGamesEtc]

There's nothing magical about floating in water that's going to cause your limbs to turn into pretzels. rofl. Great one! Thanks!

[joshuahardy95]

8:52 that was me i feel special :PPP

[Spamazoid]

Motion sickness type symptoms come from watching poorly tuned or slow refresh rate Monitors too, same as playing games in a 1st person view or when lots of colors are moving across the screen quickly like a Guitar hero style game. I suffer from those when playing First Person Shooters so i avoid those type of games.

Symptoms nausea, eye strain, migranes.

Great Show and i'm sure Mythbusters wouldn't complain since you are knowledgeable and there is another show that rips them off more :)

[Spamazoid]

I get eye strains and migranes from using monitors often, so that part is true but it's not permanent.

[firefoxhero]

YAY!



[HardcoreGamerAus]

looking forward to the next episode , love all of the SciByte good job guys.