Playground to Prison: Youth in the Adult Criminal Justice System [infographic]

Alright. Time to get serious again. Today’s infographic tells about a topic I have recently been incredibly intrigued by. Juveniles in the adult prison system. It’s an issue a lot of people do not know much about, but it affects society on a HUGE level. Seriously, though.

Almost everyone breaks the law in one way or another—especially when in the years of our infamous teenage rebellions. The problem is when a kid gets put in the adult criminal justice system, even for “minimal” crimes, the effects on their lives are usually not beneficial. The lack of rehabilitation and therapy in the prison system might be to be blame with a shockingly high recidivism rate among juveniles (and adults).

I am training to be a social worker, and although I do not wish to work within the prisons, I want to promote reform of the prison system. It is much needed, with study after study showing that the methods in practice do not work. For those of you who are interested, I put a video about some of the issues that a professor at UT addresses directly under the infographic. It is very educational.

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Public Art Of The Week: Old Phone Booths Converted Into Goldfish Aquariums

Since most of us have cellphones, public pay phones have become somewhat obsolete. Rather than using these stationary posts as originally intended (for making telephone calls), it seems we've shifted their purpose to being artistic monuments. We previously saw an art movement in Brazil where 100 artists transformed 100 pay phones and now we bring you to Japan where art collective Kingyobu has been repurposing phone booths into aquariums filled with goldfish.

The collective, whose name roughly translates as "goldfish club," consists of five Kyoto University of Art and Design students that have taken the initiative to install goldfish tanks across several phone booths in Osaka. In Japan, the goldfish holds great symbolic significance. It is believed to bring happiness and prosperity, like an enchanting good luck charm. Thus, the resulting public aquariums offer something magical that is sure to catch the eye of pedestrians. They're like something straight out of a fairy tale and, given Japan's cult following of the shimmering, aquatic pet, this project is all the more fascinating.

This Phone-Tossing Pub Ghost Would Prefer It If You Didn't Phone Your Neighbourhood Ghost Busters:

New Talbot Pub manager Ajay Cohan thought he had misplaced his phone in the wee hours of the morning as he cleaned. Cohan check the CCTV cameras later, astonished to see his phone disappear from a chair sometime around 2:30 in the morning.

Locals are saying it’s the work of former landlord Gary Stephens, who died of a heart attack in 1993. Regulars have reported the chair in question also happened to be the late Stephens’ favorite.

The video of the phone in question is a 13 second clip of a black blob scooting across a bench and disappearing under the table with a thud.

Cohan and his family who live on the property, are frightened by the recent CCTV video.

“It was crazy when I watched back the footage, no one was near it and then it just flies off the seat and across the pub,” Cohan told The Sun. “There is no explanation. The vibration function on my phone is broken; there is no draft inside the pub.”

This is not the first reported paranormal instances to have occurred at the site. Both clientele and employees have reported being poked and touched while working or enjoying a drink.

Activity has been building in the last few weeks the family reports, noting recent video footage of small light orbs floating around the pub late at night.

Whether the New Talbot pub is haunted is unknown; I’m inclined to believe it’s just the ghost of Old Gary Stephens letting everyone know it’s time to dust! What do you think? Tweet us @WhoForted, chat with us at ourOfficial Facebook page, or jump into the comments section below!

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Thousands of Mysterious Purple Spheres Discovered in the Desert [Video]

Photo of the weird spheres snapped by Geradine Vargas

When a photographer and her husband trekked into the desert for a routine shoot, they didn’t expect to stumble onto an odd scene that left them scratching their heads: thousands of mysterious, gelatinous, purple orbs scattered in a circle in the middle of nowhere.

“We were taking photos around the area and we just… I mean, how could you miss this?” Geradine Vargas told KGUN-9. “It was just, like, glittering in the sun.”

Littered on the desert dirt were thousands of weird, purple orbs. They appeared to be gelatinous, filled with some kind of liquid, almost resembling frog eggs. Only supplementing the strangeness of the spheres were their location – the middle of the desert. Luckily, Vargas was a photographer and managed to snap a few photos of her find.

“We did email a friend of ours who’s a zoologist, but she didn’t know…i mean, she didn’t seem to recognize what it was.”

The KGUN-9 News team did their own research into the objects, with a Tucson Botanical Gardens botanist telling them that the strange orbs could be a kind of slime mold or jelly fungus. Our friend and Phoenix, AZ resident Jim Lippard let us know that the find comes after a record rain in the area, which could support the slime mold theory.

Another theory posed by some members of the Above Top Secret forums is that the purple spheres could be “art deco beads” used to keep plants hydrated (and stylish). But yet.. what would thousands of them be doing in the middle of the Arizona desert? Adding to the mystery is that if they were decorative plant beads (which are a bit expensive to be discarding so many of casually), they would need to be getting moisture from somewhere, otherwise they would dry and shrivel up quite quickly.

According to KGUN-9, the spheres are still there, glistening away in the sun, and they ooze a strange liquid when squeezed. One only hopes they washed their hands afterwards.

While the debate about exactly what these weird globs are, it’s worth mentioning the strange coincidence that on the exact date just last year, some very similar looking objects fell from the sky in Dorset, England. Those odd little orbs were a blue color, and fell in a “flash storm” that lasted about 20 seconds. Could there be a connection?

Extraterrestrial eggs dumped from a passing UFO? The product of an unexplained meteorological event? A beautiful gag conducted by a few bored photographers? We want to know what you think the mysterious purple objects are. Tweet us @WhoForted, drop us a line on our Official Facebook page, or give us your opinion in the comments below!

Man Claims to Have Captured Voice of “Ghost Child” at Nunnery [Video]

Does a seemingly innocent YouTube video of yard work contain the otherworldly wails of a ghostly child? One man thinks so.

Gavin Espley, from Birmingham, England believes he accidentally captured the eerie voice of a child’s ghost on camera and he’s uploaded the video to the internet in the hopes of convincing others.

The clip, which as of this writing has a scant 63 views, was already a bit weird to begin with.. it’s a cell phone video of a man raking leaves shot from a second story window overlooking a nunnary yard. It only gets stranger though, when you turn up the volume and hear what sounds like a distant wailing.. a lost child moaning, ”I’m cold, Mummy. I’m cold.”

Gavin claims he was home alone in the house at the time, with no television or other electronics running. He accounts for the knocks and bumps heard in the video, attributing them to the wind, but  when it comes to the ghoulish moaning, Espley claims that this is actually his second run in with the soft spoken spook.

It was at about 11:30 am and this was the second encounter. The video was purely recorded to catch the gardener of the nunnery next door talking to himself. There was no one else in the nunnery grounds.

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Russian Divers Discover Skeletal Remains of Lake Dwelling “Devil-Monster”

Scientists making the dive into one of the coldest lakes on the planet have made a discovery that some believe proves the existence of Russia’s own “Loch Ness Monster”.

Russian researchers have officially reached the bottom of Labynkyr, the first time the feat has ever been achieved, seeing as how the lake’s location, the Siberian village of Oymyakon in Yakutia, is home to one of the three lowest air temperatures on Earth. Leading the history-making Russian Geographical Society dive team is Dmitry Shilley, who told reporters that the research was as much about adventure as it was about science.

“By now almost all the land on earth has been studied, but terra firma is only 30% of the planet”, he said. “I’m sure there are a lot of secrets under water, so that’s where all of the science will go in the near future”.

Not only has Guiness World Records taken note of the dive, but so too have cryptozoologists, who have watched the mysterious lake closely since the 50′s, when the head of the USSR’s Acadamy of Science Siberian geological unit Viktor Tverdokhlebov unwittingly created the legend of the Labynkyr Devil, a monster the Russians have long considered their own Loch Ness Monster.

In his diary, Viktor stated:

“…There was some kind of an animal….

As it approached, I grew overwhelmed by a strange consternation, freezing me inside. A dark grey oval bulk was seen in the water. On it were two symmetrical white spots, looking like eyes of an animal, and something like a stick poked out of it… Maybe a fin? We only saw a little part of the animal, but could guess a huge solid body under water. No doubt, that was a predator, one of the strongest in the world”. 

From then on, all eyes were on the remote lake, and sightings of the “Devil” have persisted ever since. Even as recent as last year, the monster was being sought in expeditions. Associate Professor Lyudmila Emeliyanova, of Moscow State University, told The Siberian Times that she had recorded ‘several seriously big underwater objects’ with her own sonar readings.

Photo of a large object mapped in Labynkyr in 2006

‘The object was very dense, of homogeneous structure, surely not a fish nor a shoal of fish, and it was above the bottom,” she told The Daily Mail. “I was very surprised but not scared nor shocked, after all we did not see this animal, we only registered a strange object in the water. But I can clearly say – at the moment, as a scientist, I cannot offer you any explanation of what this object might be.”

The locals have long told stories of a large-jawed creature that makes a “primeval shriek” before it tackles it’s prey. Well, according to the Voice of Russia, Dmitri Shiller and the RGO dive team may have found the remains of those massive jaws in their research.

While their expedition was mainly launched to collect samples of the lake’s flora and fauna, they also made it a point to map the bottom of the lake, home to a giant crack that reaches depths of around 80 meters. While doing so with the help of an underwater scanner, the team made an interesting discovery: the large jaws and skeletal remains of a big, unidentified mammal. Could it be evidence of the Labynkyr Devil? The team can’t know for sure without retrieving the remains themselves, but the find has certainly sparked interest in a return trip into the water.

Now keep in mind, this is a lake, unconnected to any larger bodies of water. Whatever creature the bones belong to has resided in that lake for a long time, which is the most exciting part of the find if you ask me. Devil or not, it’s neat to see that something big has been, or at least was, living in the isolated waters for who knows how long.

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Security Guard “Driven Insane” by Female Ghost in White Dress

A security guard in the Thai city of Pattaya is being held at a local police station after “going mad” in a temple. The cause? He claimed that he was being continually stalked by the ghost a woman in a white dress.

When police arrived on the scene, they found a group of monks restraining the terrified Phonsiri Janthamas, a 45 year old security guard. Phonsiri was bleeding heavily from his left arm, an injury he sustained from punching a large mirror until it shattered.

When authorities couldn’t calm the shivering man, who they insist had gone completely insane, they cuffed him and took him down the station. The temple monks, on the other hand, recounted how Phonsiri suddenly freaked out and trashed the place, attacking a giant sliding mirror, and scaring the Abbot so much he locked himself in a temple room and waited for the police, letting all the monk trainees grapple with the crazed security guard.

The pieces finally began to come together when officers questioned Phonsiri’s 26 year-old co-worker, who told them he brought Phonsiri to the temple to seek the advice of the monks after being constantly followed by the ghost of a woman in a white dress. According to a report in the Pattaya Daily News, upon seeing the mirror, the haunted man’s mind “finally snapped”, sending him into a frenzy.

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UFO: The Musician Who Went To Space

In 1975, Jim Sullivan, a promising musician, mysteriously disappeared without a trace just outside the town of Santa Rosa, New Mexico. To this day, no one knows where he went or what happened to him and his body has never been found. It’s almost as if he was sucked into space..

Jim’s debut album, which was released in 1969, was entitled U.F.O.. Jennifer Maas writes an intriguing article about Jim and defines U.F.O as, “a slice of American pop music filtered from the murky depths of Los Angeles, by way of the deep- south.” Now I’m no music buff or anything, nor do I delve deep into the hidden meanings of songs or anything like that. I simply call it like I see it. Or in this case, like I hear it. Listening to this song I could only hear a hippy. However, the tune is actually quite catchy. You can hear the entire album at Light In the Attic, a great site that re-leases hard to find music and gets them the attention today that they deserved yesterday.

Here’s some lyrics from the title track:

Shakin like a leaf on the desert heat,
his daddy’s got a bog that’s hard to beat
Bought me a ticket got a front row seat.
I’m checkin out the show with a glassy eye.
Looking at the sun dancing through the sky.
Did he come by UFO?

Clearly, Jim Sullivan was a very talented musician, and before long he had caught the Hollywood bug. He hung out with famous celebrities, played music with them, even getting a brief cameo in Easy Rider. He had everything going for him except a credible label. Too many of them already had their own “Jim Sullivans”, musicians with a sound close to Jim’s… probably because Jim was playing on half their albums. Even after he and friend created their own label, releasing their own albums as a last ditch resort, they still didn’t get the attention they wanted. However, throughout the course of his attempts at stardom, Jim had made contacts in Nashville that provided the opportunity to make or break his career. Leaving his wife and family back in California, Jim set out on an adventure from which he would never return.

They found his car abandoned. Everything Jim had was still in his vehicle, parked 26 miles outside the town of Santa Rosa, New Mexico, but he was nowhere to be found. Some reports said that Jim was pulled over by the police because he was swerving back and forth between lanes. Later, the officer stated that Jim was just tired from his travels, and rather than ticket him, the officer gave him directions to the nearby La Mesa Motel, where it’s been verified that he checked in.

Still, there were also reports that he was questioned by a local family as to why his car was parked either on or near their property. The family in question were the Genetti’s, who were often said to have local mafia ties. Whether or not there was a confrontation between the two that led to sour mouths is unclear.

But there it was: a car filled with belongings that had no driver. Even his 12 string guitar was left behind. As someone who dabbles in playing music, I can understand how important a musician’s instrument is. I could never think about ditching my guitar like that, and for a musician such as Jim, who most likely treasured that possession more than family, leaving it behind doesn’t seem to make sense.

“With or without his disappearance, there’s something in those lyrics that is incredibly mysterious and eerie,” Matt Sullivan, Jim’s son, told NPR. “One thing that one of Jim’s friends pointed out was that the guitar was left in the car. If Jim was going to disappear, that would have been the one thing that he would have taken, because wherever he was in the world, he could always stand on a street corner and make a few bucks playing his guitar.”

Search parties were conducted by the local authorities and Jim’s family. They couldn’t find any trace of him, and to this day, it’s almost as if Jim dissipated into thin air. For a time, investigators believed that a badly decomposed body found in the desert might have belonged to Jim, but after extensive forensics, it was ruled out.

Some musicians can work their entire lives and never reach the level of fame they seek in their own country, but can go on to be wildly successful in others, thus the saying “big in Japan”. Well, maybe Jim just happened to be “big in space”. On “U.F.O”, Sullivan sings about driving his car into the desert, his family left behind, and getting abducted by aliens. Maybe, just maybe, the Greys liked his tunes so much they were happy to oblige.

I’m sure they had a better guitar for him to use.

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Kjeragbolten boulder: Afraid of heights? This will make your knees shudder [VIDEO]

The Kjeragbolten boulder is a huge rock wedged more than 1000 meters up between two cliff faces. The boulder is situated in the Kjerag mountain, in Norway.

Rumours say that the rock got stuck there sometime during the last ice age. Today, it’s one of the most popular places to get your picture taken.  Even though the boulder hangs more than a kilometer above the water below, and there’s no hand rail or safety net, people walk (in some cases, crawl) out onto the rock for a photo shoot. Evidently the rock’s surface is flat enough that walking out onto it is relatively easy. Just mind your steps and don’t look down. If you get dizzy, you lose your balance and fall into the chasm below.

This area of Norway is absolutely gorgeous! Kjeragbolten is reachable from the Kjerag plateau, a peak that towers above all others in the Lysefjord area. The plateau has become a popular BASE jumping site. But several BASE jumping accidents happen here each year, and BASE jumping from the plateau may eventually become illegal. But if you don’t plan to jump from the plateau, you can simply take in an incredible view of the blue fjords below, the surrounding mountain cliffs, and, weather permitting, an azure sky. The climb to the plateau isn’t easy. The hike is a short 3.6 miles (6 kilometers), but it’s a vertical one; there’s an elevation change of 1,500 feet (500 meters) between start and finish.

To add to the intrigue of the Kjerag mountain, there’s a place near the summit where you’ll hear the sound of a pistol and even see smoke. It’s not a ghost shooting at you. It’s just the wind, blowing in from the east.

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These Base Jumpers are Amazingly Daring.. Check this VIDEO out. 

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AMAZING CREATURES-WEIRD FISH WITH TRANSPARENT HEAD

With a head like a fighter-plane cockpit, a Pacific barreleye fish shows off its highly sensitive, barrel-like eyes--topped by green, orblike lenses--in a picture released today but taken in 2004.
The fish, discovered alive in the deep water off California's central coast by the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (MBARI), is the first specimen of its kind to be found with its soft transparent dome intact. 

The 6-inch (15-centimeter) barreleye (Macropinna microstoma) had been known since 1939--but only from mangled specimens dragged to the surface by nets. 

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Chinese farmer walks 5,000 ducks to a nearby pond [VIDEO]

Feathers will fly: Motorists and pedestrians are forced to give way as the 5,000 ducks are herded from their farm to a pond (Picture: Rex)

The mini migration was timed to avoid rush hour but commuters could not help but get caught up in the parade.

At one point, several scooters were marooned in a sea of brown but the ducks’ feathers remained unruffled – or maybe the riders were just winging it.

Farmer Hong – who was armed with just a (very) long stick and a few assistants – managed to make the journey without losing a single duck en route to the water.

Farmer Hong claims he hasn’t lost a single duck on the journey (Picture: Rex)

And he boasted that, incredibly, he had not lost a duck in the past six months while making the trip.

He regularly undertakes the perilous journey in the booming coastal city of Taizhou, in China’s Zhejiang province, about 305km (190 miles) south of Shanghai.

Just ponder on that traffic nightmare the next time you find your own feathers being ruffled when you’re stuck in a jam.

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Biologist proposes to his girlfriend using DNA fragments

We've seen lots of geeky proposals in which a guy or gal will draw on on a shared love of fandom when asking to marry their significant other. This particular fellow and his lady friend both happen to be biologists, so he decided to let his polymerase chain reaction products do the talking, giving his girlfriend a big surprise when she imaged his electrophoresis gel.

After seeing his proposal pop up on reddit, the proposer (identified by the user name gdiguy2) explained how he pulled off his PCR propsal:

They're 5 sized PCR fragments (roughly 150, 300, 500, 700, 1kb), I went back through my notes to find 5 primer pairs that I knew worked pretty well (so don't feel bad, they're selected out of primers that had been pre-validated =p). The other lanes are just mixes of the 5 sizes (either 2:3:4 or 4:6 volume mixes going in decreasing size, since larger fragments tend to be brighter). The gel actually didn't take that long (though it was terrifying loading it), but I made a mockup in Illustrator beforehand (along with a ladder to test what sizes to use), and then sketched it out beforehand so I knew what to add to each lane.

He also explains that the actual verbal proposal came outside the lab a few minutes later, and involved flowers instead of gel. The PCR proposal was a bit of work, but was less messy than the proposal friends suggested for his mouse geneticist girlfriend: hiding her ring inside a dead mouse and having her dissect it.



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Most expensive iPhone case worth £189,000, launched by Mischa Barton

An iPhone case worth £189,000 has been unveiled by actress Mischa Barton.

The UUNIQUE LONDON Lotus, announced as the most expensive iPhone 5 case in the world, features 18-carat rose gold, pink and white diamonds and Italian handmade leather.

Guests at the launch included Made in Chelsea's Rosie Fortescue and eliminated X Factor contestant Kye Sones.

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Chinese Farmer built a Wind Powered Car

 

A Chinese farmer has invented a wind-powered electric car that he says could save his country from the pollution caused by its rapidly growing car market.
An hour from Beijing, the dusty village of Banjiehe looks an unlikely place to produce scientific innovation.
Its rows of brick, utilitarian houses are surrounded by cornfields and fruit trees.
But in a small tractor workshop, 55-year-old farmer Tang Zhenping has invented the prototype of a car that he believes could revolutionise China’s auto industry.
Mr Tang’s model – built in just three months for around £1,000 – is electric.

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10 Things You Didn't Know you Could Smell

If it came to the crunch, and we were faced with losing one of our “five senses,” is there a single person who wouldn’t part with his sense of smell? Sure, it’s nice and all—but it just doesn’t compare to the usefulness of sight, the necessity of feeling, and the awesomeness of sound.

Or so at least we’ve been told. It turns out that the lamest sense is actually a lot more powerful than you might imagine. There’s an unbelievable array of subtle, subconscious things that we just wouldn’t be able to pick up without a functioning nose.



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You Can Smell How Old Someone Is





You’re probably familiar with the idea that old people stink. Whether it’s from first-hand experience, or just general pop-culture osmosis, somewhere along the line most of us begin to accept the concept of an “old person smell” as a fact of life. And in a weird way, we’re not wrong.



In a study which rather sadistically placed pads under people’s armpits and then gave them to others to sniff, scientists found that the sniffers could reliably distinguish the odors of people over seventy-five from the odors of other people.



Interestingly, the odor isn’t necessarily bad. Scientists believe that the negative stigma around the “old person smell” concept has more to do with a fear of old age than an actual negative response to someone’s body-stink.



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You Can Wake Yourself Up With Smell


Since it’s the world’s most popular psychoactive drug, it’s fairly safe to assume that most of us enjoy a cup of joe every now and again. But according to one study, you may not actually have to drink it to get the necessary effects.



By studying the effects of coffee aroma on rats, scientists found that coffee’s smell makes the brain release proteins that will protect nerve cells from stress. Which is exactly what coffee does to you when you drink it.



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You Can Smell Fear

Though it sounds like a movie tagline, the ability to smell fear is something humans really did develop for defensive purposes. Not only can we learn to identify what fear smells like in other people, but we will naturally become afraid ourselves after smelling it.



The evolutionary idea behind this ability is that humans, like all social animals, are strongest when acting as a group. If one person is so stunned by panic that he can’t communicate his emotions, the stink of his terror (as well as his body language) will spread fear to the others in his or her group. This keeps everyone’s actions—or at least their emotions—coordinated.



These days we don’t have so many encounters with predators. But we do have horror movies in theaters, and the principle still works in essentially the same way.



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Women Can Smell When a Man Is Horny




Men might hope that they’re being subtle in their advances, but scientific studies have revealed that there’s simply no hiding their arousal from a woman. She can smell how turned on a man is—and not just in a subconscious way. In studies, sniffing pads soaked with the sweat of horny men was found to activate parts of a woman’s brain normally associated with perceiving emotions in others.



But what about men? Do their noses play any role in their eternal efforts to get some? Certainly—but not in the same way. While women have a definite advantage when it comes to perceiving the intentions of their potential sexual partners, men have a slightly different ability:



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Men Can Smell When a Woman Is Ovulating




While a man’s ability to pick up on a woman’s sexual excitement might be entirely subconscious, his ability to tell when a woman is ready to get pregnant isn’t. In a blind study, scientists discovered that heterosexual men sniffing the T-shirts of various women would consistently label those of ovulating or fertile women as more “pleasant” or “sexy” than the T-shirts of other women who weren’t ready to conceive. Apparently, men can identify this scent up to a week after the clothes were worn.

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You Can Smell a Compatible Sexual Preference




When you examine the findings from various studies about individuals’ sexual preference towards different body odors, an interesting pattern occurs: sexuality is actually detectable by odor.



If a straight man is given the T-shirts of a combination of gay and straight men and women, he will consistently find the odor of the straight women more pleasant than the odor of any other group. The same is true for gay men: they will be more attracted to the scent of other gay men, and so on for every other group.



Though the findings are hardly conclusive, this does provide strong scientific support for the idea that homosexuality is based in neurobiology, rather than being an individual’s choice.



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You Can Smell Which Direction an Odor Is Coming From




We have the ability of a bloodhound, and we didn’t even know it. 



It turns out that every human is born with the ability of “egocentric localization.” That’s the ability to tell where a smell is coming from without even moving one’s head—in exactly the same way that people can pinpoint the origin of a sound. It’s a skill that all of us possess, but which most of us never bother to hone.



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You Can Smell How to Do Better On a Test




So far all these nasal tricks have been neat and perhaps unexpected, but not especially useful. So here’s one that’ll actually improve your day: you can use your nose to get better grades.



You probably know that smells can trigger a flood of old memories—but what you may not know is that without a sense of smell, you may have not been able to recall that memory at all. It turns out that olfactory (smell) perception is far more closely linked to memory than you realize: it stimulates both the ability to recall things and the ability to commit those things to memory. 

So next time you study while rubbing yourself down with lavender oil, be sure to take some lavender oil to the test. 



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Women Can Smell How Sexy Men Are




Most of us have heard that facial symmetry is one of the most important factors in a person’s level of attraction. But studies show that symmetry isn’t just something we see—it’s something we also smell.



In a study that (once again) involved smelling other people’s dirty T-shirts, scientists found that women will rate the smell of symmetrical men as more attractive than that of non-symmetrical men—even when they’ve never smelled, seen, or even met the men in question before.



Basically, sexy people smell sexy—and so do their clothes.



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You Can Smell How Healthy Your Offspring Will Be




Humans consistently make their choice of sexual partner based on whether or not the other person’s Major Histocompatibility Complex is different from their own. The Major Histocompatibility Complex, or MHC, are the molecules in the body that fight foreign invaders, like germs and viruses. 



Choosing a mate with a different MHC than your own will improve your offspring’s MHC, meaning that they’ll have a stronger immune system and will be more resistant to disease. Women are most likely to be attracted to men who have a different MHC—and interestingly, it seems that the sense of smell is pretty much the only way to determine the compatibility.



The best piece of advice for young people looking to find a serious partner? Follow your nose.

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