British scientists have proven the uselessness of IQ tests. The most curious and ridiculous studies of British scientists A million and one discovery of British scientists

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 research is in demand 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 small 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 to combat 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.

British scientists once found that British scientists are the smartest. And this is not a newspaper joke at all, such a study was actually carried out. Here is a selection of the most interesting and absurd things that British scientists have been doing.

Bowling is dangerous to your health.

This research took about two years and 250 thousand pounds sterling. Scientists have found that while playing bowling, children or teenagers can start running along the lanes and end up getting stuck in the mechanism that sets the pins. The publication notes that such cases have not been recorded previously, however, according to scientists, there is a high probability of such situations occurring. In addition, the Health, Safety and Health Administration report also noted that adults would be at just as high a risk if they decided to walk down the lane and knock down a pin with their hand.

To be successful with men, a woman must expose 40% of her body surface.

Scientists at the University of Leeds, England, have found the answer to a question that has troubled women and men for centuries: where exactly is the line between too modest and too frivolous women's clothing. The study is based on observations made by four researchers who secretly observed patrons of the city's largest nightclub from a balcony located above the dance floor. The study's authors observed how many men approached girls asking them to dance, dividing the girls by the amount of clothing they were wearing. According to research, the ideal ratio of bare skin to clothing is 40:60. At the same time, women who were naked were less successful than women who were dressed too modestly.

Pets pollute the planet more than cars.

British scientists Brenda and Robert Weil published a book with the shocking title “Time to Eat Dog?” This phrase came to us from the times when people conquered Antarctica. In cases where food ran out, travelers had to eat sled dogs. The authors have a message to the reader: at a time when natural resources are depleted, pets become a luxury that, for the sake of the planet, we cannot afford. According to the Weils' calculations, on average each dog needs 164 kg of meat and 95 kg of grain per year. To produce these products, 0.84 hectares of area is required (1.1 hectares for a German Shepherd).

According to scientists, to build and drive an SUV for 10 thousand km, energy in the amount of 55.1 gigajoules is required. And one hectare of land can produce energy equal to 135 gigajoules per year. In other words, the polluting impact of a car on the environment is half that of a dog. Similar equations apply to other pets. It turns out that a cat consumes as much energy (in terms of hectares - 0.15) as a large van, a pair of hamsters with 0.28 hectares is comparable to a plasma TV, a red fish (0.00034 hectares) consumes energy as two mobile phones.

British scientists have realized why grandmothers exist.

A large-scale study in villages in Japan, Ethiopia, Gambia and Malawi, cities in Germany, England and Canada was carried out by anthropologist Leslie Knapp together with colleagues from the University of Cambridge. An article about the research was published in the journal Proceedings of the Royal Society. After collecting some historical data and studying the features of modern life, Leslie Knapp proposed the X-chromosomal “grandmother hypothesis”. A meta-analysis in the study found that grandmothers who live close to their grandchildren influence the survival rate of their grandchildren. According to anthropologists, after reproductive age, women are able to better protect their genes, that is, the inherited parts of DNA. Losing the opportunity to care for her own children, the woman switches to caring for her grandchildren. At the same time, she passes on the accumulated experience to her grown children.

A woman passes on about 31% of her genes to her own sons' daughters. Sons' sons inherit only 23% of their grandmother's genes. Grandchildren by daughter (of both sexes) are approximately in the middle - 25%. If we talk about the X chromosome, then the son's sons have nothing to do with their grandmother at all (they receive their X chromosome from their mother). The closest to the grandmother are again the son’s daughters.

The myth of Santa Claus owes its existence to hallucinogenic mushrooms.

English scientists believe that the myth of Santa Claus traveling on flying reindeer owes its appearance to hallucinogenic mushrooms that the inhabitants of Lapland loved to indulge in. It is known that the story of Santa Claus was born in Lapland, in the north of modern Finland. Lapps lived there, who, as scientists found, quite often drank the urine of deer that ate fly agarics. In laboratory conditions, scientists obtained a powerful hallucinogenic substance from these mushrooms. It is no wonder, scientists believe, that the Lapps imagined flying deer, which then turned into the legend of the good Santa Claus. Scientists explain the bright red robe of the New Year's character with the color of a hallucinogenic mushroom. The red and white color of the fly agaric turned in the inflamed imagination of people into an old man in a red caftan with a white beard.

Miniskirts prolong life.

The less clothes a woman wears, the longer she lives - British scientists came to this interesting conclusion under the leadership of anthropologist Sir Edwin Burkhart. More than 5,000 women over 70 years old took part in the study. The result of the analysis amazed anthropologists: the less clothing the respondent wore, the more likely she was to live to an old age.

Scientists have several theories to explain this relationship. First, clothing contains residue from chemicals used during cleaning and washing, which, when reacting with sweat, can form compounds that penetrate the skin and negatively affect health, including the development of cancer. Secondly, a woman in revealing clothes attracts men and is more likely to get married. It is known that the health of married people is better and they live longer than single people. Thirdly, women who wear minimal clothing are exposed to natural factors that affect longevity. Fourthly, according to British scientists, such ladies are more open, intelligent, independent and take more care of themselves. Fifthly, lovers of revealing outfits are more likely to have sex, which, from the point of view of researchers, is another beneficial factor affecting longevity.

Communication reduces the risk of heart attack, stroke and flu.

Social activity is as important to maintaining a person's health as exercise, diet or medication. The results of a study by British and Australian scientists are published by the London newspaper Daily Express. Active communication within various social groups and teams helps reduce the risk of myocardial infarction, stroke and even influenza. The publication cites the results of a study by Professor Jolanda Jetten from the Australian University of Queensland, according to which enthusiastic conversations at the table, including in restaurants and cafes, increase brain activity, which has the most positive effect on health.

The smartest scientists live in the UK.

British scientists are the most productive in the world. According to the study, the UK ranks second after the US in the number of scientific discoveries and developments made per year. Comparing this with the amount of funding for the scientific industry and the number of people working in it, we can conclude that British scientists work much more efficiently than their overseas colleagues.

The study, based on a count of the number of scientific papers, their influence in the world of science and the frequency of citations, found that between 1997 and 2001 the UK produced 9.4 per cent of scientific publications, accounting for 12.8 per cent of the most cited papers. For comparison, the figures for Germany are 8.8 and 10.4 percent, Japan - 9.3 and 6.9. Although the United States has gone far ahead in terms of total volume - 35 and 63 percent, the efficiency of American scientists has decreased significantly compared to previous years.

Blueberries protect against senile dementia.

British scientists have found that daily consumption of blueberries or a blueberry milkshake improves concentration and prevents the development of senile dementia. For the research, scientists invited 40 volunteers aged 18 to 30 years. The subjects drank a glass of blueberry milkshake every morning and followed the diet prescribed by doctors. During the day they did several physical exercises, during which the level of concentration was monitored. After a few weeks, the berries were removed from the volunteers’ diet. As a result, the concentration level of the experiment participants after two hours of exercise decreased by 15-20 percent.

Cell phones kill bees.

Cell phone radiation has an extremely negative effect on bees, leading to the collapse of the colony and even to their mass extinction. British experts led by Dr. Daniel Favre came to this conclusion. Scientists conducted an experiment by placing a working mobile phone under the hive. It turned out that bees become very anxious if there is an incoming call on the phone. They gather in a swarm, and after the signal is interrupted, they calm down.

In previous experiments, a phone left near a hive led to the collapse of a bee colony and the mass extinction of bee colonies. Radiation from mobile communications kills 43% of bees, while, for example, pesticides kill only 3% of these insects. The fact is that cellular networks under the GSM protocol operate at frequencies from 800 to 1200 MHz. Bees communicate at these same frequencies and, most importantly, navigate. Cellular networks “clog” the channel, and disoriented bees cannot find the place where they live and feed.

It's good to swear from time to time.

British scientists report that sometimes swearing is good for your health. Moreover, swearing helps most of all those people who usually do not use profanity in their speech. In particular, strong words have a pronounced analgesic effect. The researchers conducted an experiment in which 70 students participated. They had to keep their hands in the ice water for as long as possible. When it became completely unbearable, they were asked to use obscene language. At this time, scientists measured the activity of their brain centers and other body reactions. As it turned out, the participants in the experiments who cursed were able to keep their hands in the water longer than those who could not utter these words. At the same time, the greatest effect was achieved by those who usually rarely use obscene expressions.

A person can become seriously ill in a dream.

Sound, healthy sleep can lead to serious illnesses. British scientists came to this conclusion. In particular, sleeping on your back is fraught with asthma and heart problems, since in this position the body is poorly supplied with oxygen. If a person sleeps on their side, this can lead to early formation of wrinkles. And if the sleeper assumes the “fetal position,” he risks migraines and problems with the cervical spine. The neck will also suffer when sleeping on your stomach. In addition, in this position the sleeper’s hands will go numb, and in certain cases the jaw can also become twisted. Those who like to sleep in an embrace will begin to experience pain in the back, neck, legs, and arms. British scientists did not consider other options for sleeping positions.

Women like gloomy men.

Women are more attracted to men who are moody than men who look happy. Scientists from the University of British Columbia came to this conclusion. A group of thousands of volunteers took part in the study. They were asked to look at photographs of people of the opposite sex and rate them in terms of sexual attractiveness. All photographed people had different facial expressions associated with manifestations of emotions (from a wide smile to eyes lowered to the floor).

Psychologists assessed the first impression of sexual attractiveness of the images. It turned out that women are more attracted to gloomy, concentrated faces. They don't like smiling, cheerful men. Scientists believe that women associate a man’s gloomy appearance with his status, wealth, reliability, and ability to provide for a partner and children. But a smile indicates weakness and defenselessness. In turn, men pay more attention to smiling, joyful women, since representatives of the stronger sex prefer ladies who are easier to make contact and obey.

Old mobile phones should be buried in pots with plants.

A group of British scientists have invented an original way to get rid of old mobile phones. They suggest not throwing them away, but burying them in pots with plants. Elements of a cell phone biochemically decompose over time. Together with the soil, they create favorable conditions for the growth of certain plants. Sunflowers grow best in a pot with a telephone. Scientists have not yet determined whether the phone model affects the growth rate of plants.

Among the ants there are also scammers and corrupt officials.

“The first thing you notice when you look at the social structure of ants and bees is how cooperative they are,” says Bill Hughes from the University of Leeds. - However, if you look closely, you will notice that they are also characterized by conflicts and fraud - and in this they are very similar to human society. "We previously thought that ants were an exception, but our genetic analysis showed that their society is rife with corruption, particularly royal corruption." Scientists compared the inequality that is present in anthills with what happens in hives where drones and ordinary bees live. Ants, like bees, have their own carriers of “royal genes”. Dr. Hues and Jacobus Boomsma from the University of Copenhagen found that the daughters of some fathers become “queens” more often than others. In addition, ants carrying special royal genes have the ability to fool their relatives and deprive them of the opportunity to leave offspring.

The oldest joke of man.

Scientists from Great Britain have found the world's oldest joke text. It is noteworthy that this discovery allows us to conclude: humor “below the belt” was no less popular in ancient times than it is today. Researchers from the University of Wolverhampton have determined that the oldest joke was recorded in 1900 BC. It belongs to the Sumerians, who lived in what is now southern Iraq. Rough translation: “This has not happened since time immemorial for a girl to fart while sitting on her husband’s lap.”

Excess alcohol leads to mutations in DNA.

As researchers write in the journal Nature, acetaldehyde, a byproduct of ethanol processing in our bodies, can lead to catastrophic DNA damage. And we would die from the very first glass if the cells did not have a two-step defense system: the first includes enzymes that neutralize acetaldehyde itself, the second is a set of proteins that take on the emergency repair of damaged DNA. Scientists experimented with pregnant mice in which both systems were turned off - in such animals, even a small single dose of alcohol led to the death of the fetus; Moreover, the death of blood stem cells was observed in the adult mice themselves.

Scientists were prompted to check the effect of alcohol on DNA by two groups of information. Firstly, people suffering from Fanconi syndrome, a severe hereditary disease, are extremely sensitive to alcohol. In these patients, the proteins responsible for DNA repair do not work, as a result of which acetaldehyde causes irreversible damage to genes, and this leads to blood diseases and cancer. On the other hand, people with congenital alcohol intolerance are highly susceptible to esophageal cancer, and their acetaldehyde neutralization system does not work. In both cases, the consequences of alcohol intake are expressed in diseases affecting the molecular genetic apparatus of the cell.

Why are drunk men less demanding of beauty?

British scientists sometimes take on the most unexpected topics. This time they wanted to know why drunk men, as popular wisdom says, are less demanding of women’s appearance. The study involved students, the male half of whom had to... get drunk. After such an exciting stage of scientific work, they were asked to evaluate photographs of girls who had already been “sorted” in terms of attractiveness by a fairly large group of sober respondents. It goes without saying that there was no sensation: the assessments of drunken volunteers turned out to be less strict. Having looked closely at the photographs and analyzed the ratings given, scientists came to the conclusion that alcohol takes away people’s ability to adequately assess the symmetry of a face (after all, as you know, the more symmetrical a face is, the more beautiful it seems, based on current standards). Well, the vagueness of the lines always gave everything a certain mystery... That, in fact, is the whole story.

Men and women are awakened by different sounds.

Many mothers, tired of constantly getting up at night and soothing a crying child, begin to hate their husbands, sleeping peacefully next to them and, it seems, completely unable to hear the piercing baby roar. This hatred, as British scientists have proven, is in most cases completely groundless. It turns out that nature has tuned our body to perceive very specific sounds in our sleep, so men really don’t hear the crying of their tiny offspring.

For representatives of the fairer sex, children's sobs are the most annoying sound that can wake up from any, even the deepest sleep. For men, he is not even in the top ten. The most effective “alarm clocks” for the stronger sex are car alarms, the howling of the wind and a fly or mosquito buzzing over the ear.

Enormous sex differences in the perception of sounds during sleep were revealed during an experiment with measurements of the level of brain activity. It was carried out simply: subjects immersed in sleep were “played” various noises, while simultaneously taking an encephalogram. It turned out that any woman reacts sharply to a child’s cry and wakes up, even if she herself is not a mother. At the same time, nature has also provided a compensatory mechanism: representatives of the fair sex fall asleep much faster after sudden night “wake-ups”. But men, awakened by some extraneous sound, then cannot fall asleep for a long time, tossing and turning in bed and suffering.

A portion of hookah is five times more harmful than a cigarette.

A study has shown that a person smoking a hookah inhales as much carbon monoxide as if he were breathing through a car exhaust pipe. That is, one “portion” of hookah can be five times higher than one cigarette in terms of carbon monoxide content.

The best morning exercise is sex.

British scientists, in particular sexologists from Queen's University Belfast, managed to prove that morning sex is healthier than morning exercises. During sex, the arm muscles are strengthened, the chest, pelvis and buttocks are strengthened, as well as blood circulation improves and proper breathing is restored. In addition, sex has a clear preventive effect, in particular, the risk of cardiovascular diseases is significantly reduced; morning sex can fight arthritis and migraines, burn more than three hundred calories at a time, which, in turn, reduces the risk of diabetes.

Tea helps in the fight against nightmares.

In research, experts have found that those who drink more than one cup of tea a day have a 50% reduction in the risk of unpleasant dreams compared to those who practically never drink this drink. Scientists cannot say exactly why this happens. However, they believe that the active chemicals contained in tea, particularly the amino acid tannin, relieve stress and calm negative electrical activity in the brain.

The average temperature on Earth will rise by 4 degrees by 2060.

According to a published report commissioned by the Ministry of Energy and Climate Change, serious temperature changes as a result of global warming will not occur in the distant future, but within the current generations. “An average increase in global temperatures of four degrees would lead to sharper increases in some regions, along with a dramatic change in precipitation. And if greenhouse gas emissions are not reduced soon, our generation will face critical climate change,” said Dr. Richard Betts, head of the Hadley Climate Prediction Center at the British Met Office. At the same time, in the Arctic, as well as in the west and south of the African continent, warming could reach 10 degrees.

The more you run, the better you remember.

Scientists have discovered a new way to improve memory - to do this you need to constantly jog. It turns out that regular jogging has a beneficial effect not only on a person’s psyche and body, but also on his brain. Scientists from the University of Cambridge have shown that jogging stimulates the production of new gray matter cells in the area of ​​the brain responsible for memory, notes Compulenta. Data from experiments by British scientists suggest that just a few days of running lead to the growth of hundreds of thousands of new cells in the area of ​​the brain that is associated with memory.

A way has been found to reduce hangovers.

Scientists have found a way to reduce hangovers after drinking alcohol - to do this, saturate them with oxygen. According to British media, this discovery was made by scientists from Chungnam National University in the South Korean city of Daejeon.

It is known that oxygen is involved in the chemical process in the human body, during which consumed alcohol breaks down into water and carbon dioxide. Scientists took identical portions of the same alcoholic drink, saturated them with oxygen to varying degrees, and gave them to the volunteer participants in the experiment to drink. After some time, the scientists asked the subjects about their feelings and measured the alcohol content in their blood. It turned out that those who had a higher oxygen content in their drink felt better and had less alcohol in their blood.

The leader of the experiment, Professor Kwan Il Kwon, said that after drinking an oxygenated alcoholic drink, the alcohol content in the blood plasma decreases faster than after drinking a drink with a normal oxygen content. The scientists, however, did not specify what kind of drink they used in the experiment and how oxygen affects its taste.

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 the catchy and sometimes ridiculous headlines in articles based on the works of British and (not only) scientists come from. 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- a kind of media virus, but only a special, strange one, 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 looking 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.

The world of science does not stand still! “British scientists have proven...” We've been hearing this expression a lot lately, and it has already become a cliche. Today is a selection about what grandmothers are needed for and which scientists are the best.

10th PLACE:About the disadvantages of long sleep

Every student dreams of the day when they can get a good night's sleep. But it was not there! Scientists advise against staying in bed for more than 8 hours, or you risk increasing your risk of developing diseases.

9th PLACE:Mat is good for health

The conversation will not be about sports mats, on which they hone their physical education skills, but about those very mats, without which, as they say, the Russian language is impossible.

Scientists from England say that mat is good for health - it helps cope with pain. Moreover, the efficiency of the mat for people who hardly use it or do not use it at all will be higher. Young people took part in the experiment; they had to hold their hands in ice water. When students became unbearably cold, they were encouraged to use a mat, thereby increasing the ability to keep their hands in the water.

8th PLACE:Stay away from hand dryers in shopping centers

Such a notice should be hung up by British scientists in all the toilets of shopping centers. The thing is that hand dryers in public places are an ideal breeding ground for germs. Better use paper towels, the British advise.

7th PLACE:It is better to store old phones in flowers

And all this is not because we want to perpetuate the memory of what we never part with for a minute. But because telephones in flower pots will begin to decompose under the influence of the environment and create favorable conditions for some plants. The thing that needs your old cell phone the most are sunflowers.

6th PLACE:A miniskirt is the key to a long life

The study included about 5,000 women whose age reached 70 years. The results are simply amazing: the less clothes a woman wears, the more likely she is to cross the line of her seventh decade.

There are several hypotheses about this:

1. Clothes after washing one way or another contain residues of chemicals that react with sweat and can negatively affect health, including the development of cancer.
2. Also, one of the conclusions of British scientists was that to maximum attract a man, a woman should have 40% of her body exposed. Therefore, she is more likely to get married. And it’s no secret that married couples live much longer than bachelors.
3. According to scientists, ladies whose wardrobe has more skirts than pants are more intelligent, independent and take good care of themselves.

5th PLACE:For a student, everything falls on a newspaper

You thought it was a joke, but researchers at the University of Manchester proved it wasn't. The experiment involved sandwiches with jam, cheese, and ham. The result did not cast doubt on the usefulness of the scientists’ actions. If something very sweet or, on the contrary, salty has slipped through your hands, feel free to pick it up and chew it! The fact is that substances high in sugar or salt are not the most favorable environment for the growth of bacteria. Microbes do not have time to multiply in it so quickly

4TH PLACE:The perfect sandwich

If you think that the ideal sandwich is the one that was made for you, then this is only true if it has ideal proportions.

According to British scientists, the ideal sandwich should be one for which you need:

• a slice of white bread 9 mm thick (no more and no less);
• a millimeter layer of butter, weighing 7.1 grams;
• 2 mm of good jam, weighing 11 grams.

3RD PLACE:Why are grandmothers needed?

After going through a lot of literature and studying the features of modern life, British scientists found out why grandmothers exist! The study revealed that grandmothers living next to their grandchildren... influence the survival rate of the latter. After a woman can no longer raise and care for her own children, she switches to her grandchildren.

2ND PLACE:The smartest scientists are British scientists!

We hear the expression “British scientists...” so often that we completely forget about the existence of others. It is known that the UK ranks second in the world in the number of scientific discoveries per year, after the USA.

1 PLACE:What is the cause of excess weight?

The discovery, for which such a large budget was probably allocated in vain, still takes place, since it has already been made. Scientists have found an explanation for the problem of overweight people. The thing is that thin people usually eat less than fat people.

Lesya Slutskaya

British scientists– these are not just scientists, they are masters of their craft! The stunning discoveries that British scientists are making are simply phenomenal; They don’t do such “bullshit” as studying or research. Still would! After all, there are so many interesting things in the world, and most importantly, “much necessary things.”

In the preface, you probably caught rather thick notes of sarcasm, but if you still don’t understand what it means, then let me tell you who these “British scientists” are - these are no longer just two words standing together, this is already a whole brand!

If you are reading about some research, and it begins with the phrase: “British scientists have proven/discovered/discovered/established,” then rest assured that a very cool and “useful” discovery awaits you, and at the same time you will laugh. When I read about many of the discoveries of British scientists, I wondered whether they were actually researching this, or whether a worldwide campaign had been launched on the Internet to discredit scientists, and specifically British ones (national humor?), or maybe British scientists are the most unemployed people in the world world with good funding?

Okay, jokes aside! Let's move on to the best discoveries that British scientists have made:

1. Have you ever wondered how ducks relate to water? But British scientists did not sit still and conducted research during which they found that ducks really like rain! True, any villager knows this, but the scientists are still great, because they spent 3 years and 300 thousand pounds sterling on this research.

2. No less important is the discovery of British scientists that dogs yawn after their owners. This is due to the dog's cognitive-behavioral instincts.

3. British scientists have developed the perfect bacon sandwich! I don’t think it’s worth going into detail about how they did it, the very fact of such research is important)) However, I note that the formula used during this development is quite impressive and has many variables.

4. British scientists have found that thin people eat, on average, less than fat people. So if you want to eat less, you know what to do, but remember.

5. One of the recent statements by British scientists is that a person can die from... boredom. By the end of the study, about 40% of people suffering from this disease had died.

6. Being an excellent student is dangerous for the psyche and health. British scientists believe that schoolchildren with only excellent grades are much more likely to suffer from manic-depressive psychosis than other students. So don’t just study “excellently”, and don’t listen to a lot of music, otherwise...

7. Another fact established by British scientists from Keele University: . By the way, I have already written about this in more detail before.

8. Another strange conclusion of British scientists was the fact that smiling does not make anyone feel better. The strange thing is that the experiments were carried out on laboratory snails and snakes.

It becomes a shame for everyone’s favorite song, which contains the words: “a smile will make everyone brighter, an elephant and even a small snail.”

9. Another useless discovery can be considered that to perform complex actions, cats prefer to use their right front paw, and cats prefer to use their left. However, on average, all cats are ambidextrous, that is, they can use both the right and left front paws equally well.

10. British scientists have found that alcohol does not affect the ability of men to estimate the age of women.

British scientists, such British scientists! They make such stunning discoveries that simply excite the imagination! True, there is not much benefit from them, both for people far from science and for the scientific community.

Regarding fact 10: ordering or buying alcohol at night in Moscow is quite simple. You just need to place an order and it’s almost right before your eyes! And remember - this will not stop you from evaluating women.