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Weekly Roundup (6/29/19-7/5/19)
🕑 Added 2019-07-05 22:28:07 +0000 UTCSciShow
What is it about soft things that makes us want to touch them so much?
Do Wild Animals Intentionally Get High?
Humans tend to have a fondness for mind-altering substances, but are other animals getting high, too?
Some plants are surprisingly good at telling time, considering they don't have brains.
Can Sneezing Make Your Eye Pop Out?
Someone has probably told you at some point that if you sneeze with your eyes open, your eyes can pop out of your head. That person is not totally wrong.
What We Get Wrong About “Alcoholism”
Alcohol use disorder affects millions of people worldwide, and it's seriously undertreated.
eDNA: How Scientists See Hidden Animals
Some animals are notoriously hard to find, but scientists have found a way to track them: eDNA
The Beginning of the End of North Atlantic Right Whales? | SciShow News
We may be looking at the first extinction caused by whaling.
SciShow Space
This Tank of Water Could Change Physics Forever
Physicists are pretty sure protons should decay, so the fact that no one has seen this happen raises some questions.
We're Sending a Drone to Saturn's Moon Titan! | SciShow News
NASA is sending a robot to fly around Titan!
SciShow Psych
What People Get Wrong About Schizophrenia
Some myths about schizophrenia haven't caught up with the science.
Can You Actually Become More Emotionally Intelligent?
Emotional intelligence seems like a pretty important skill to have. So, can you get better at it?
Comments
Consider some of the gibberish that is being spread over butter vs margarine. What is butter? Butter is a suspension of milk solids in fat. what is margarine? Margarine is a suspension of milk solids in fat. So what's the difference? By law since 1943 (US) butter must contain animal fat, specifically dairy fat. margarine is a more general, generic term and butter is a form of margarine. so margarine can contain any type of fat, including walrus fat, should you so choose. To be realistic, heart-healthy margarines such as Promise or ICBINB are made with plant fats. Plant fats are liquid at room temperature so we call them oils. To make them more solid they are partially hydrogenated. However even after hydrogenation they still contain less than 1/3 the saturated fat of butter. And, like butter, they contain zero trans fat (read the friggin' labels!). So, bottom line, is that heart-healthy margarines are much better for your health than butter and neither is "one molecule away from being a plastic".
