Tag: chair

• Extreme Sitting and Worldwide Trolley Problems

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  May 21, 2022Episodes

• Rice Guys Finish Last

  How you behave in Starbucks may reveal something about whether your ancestors grew wheat or rice. That’s the conclusion of a new study in China, which finds that people descended from wheat farmers—who largely rely on themselves—typically drink coffee alone, …

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  May 30, 2018Episodes

• Halve A Seat

  At the University of Chicago in the early 1920s, psychology grad student William Blatz built a remote-controlled trick chair that would collapse when he pressed a switch. (It was padded to avoid injury.) Then he had subjects sit in the …

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  January 8, 2018Episodes