Experiments and research

Seven funniest research

1) Elephants on LSD

In 1962, American scientists interested in the question of how to behave in an elephant if he inject into tusk monstrous dose of LSD. The dose was 3000 times the dose for human maximum. (297 milligrams of LSD)

Subject Elephant Tusk issued bloodcurdling roar, toppled onto his back and died an hour later, despite the futile efforts of researchers to revive him with the help of anti-psychotic drugs.

"It appears that the elephant is highly sensitive to the effects of LSD," - concluded the researchers. The result of the study was published in the August issue of the journal «Science».

2) Terror in the sky

Another experience, delivered in 1960, during which the soldiers during a training flight were informed that their plane lost control and was about to collapse into the ocean. Then they were asked to fill in on the form of insurance - ostensibly because the army did not bear the financial responsibility for the death or injury of military personnel. Later, they were told that a plane is really all right, and they unwittingly become participants in the experiment, which showed that the fear of imminent death causes soldiers to make more mistakes than usual when filling in forms.

3) Tickling

In 1930, Clarence Yeuba, professor and psychologist from Antioch College in Ohio, has put forward the hypothesis that the ability to laugh is not innate, and people buy it when they are tickled. Check your guess Professor has decided on his own newborn son: in the presence of all the members of his family were not allowed to laugh, if they tickle.

However, a few months later the scientist found his wife throws the boy on his lap and says: "Quality Quality!" For seven years the child was filled by tickling, like all children, but it is not in the least discouraged by Professor Yeubu - he continued his experiments with younger sister Boy .

4) Headless rats and painted faces

In 1924 Carney Landis, of the University of Minnesota, set out to learn how to disgust reflected in the human face. To more clearly see the movement of facial expressions, he faces rascherchival subjects burnt cork, and then offered them to smell ammonia, listen to jazz, look at pornographic pictures, or put their hands in a basket of frogs.

In the course of the experiment Landis urged each volunteer to decapitate a rat. This requirement is without exception plunged into confusion. Some subjects were beside ourselves, started swearing and yelling, but most agree that once again showed how people tend to meekly submit to authority. Pictures taken during the experiment, a strange impression: "The participants seem to them like members of a secret cult preparing to offer a sacrifice to the Deity Great Experiment," the Times quoted the journalist Alex Boas who prepared this list of scientific curiosities.

5) The resurrection of the dead

In the 1930s, Robert Cornish (Robert Cornish), a scientist from the University of California, tried to revive the bodies, making them injections of adrenaline and coagulants, while shaking his body up and down, so that the blood could circulate.

He was expelled from the university campus for such a questionable experiment, but he continued to study at home in a makeshift laboratory. The laboratory was equipped with a heart-lung machine, built from the vacuum cleaner and water pipes.

Thomas Mack Monigl (Thomas McMonigle), sentenced to death, has agreed to become lab rats scientist. But he was denied the state government of California, fearing that they will release the Mac Monigla if he comes back to life.

6) With eyes wide

In 1960, a sleep researcher Ian Oswald (Ian Oswald) from the University of Edinburgh are very puzzled by the question whether it is possible to sleep with your eyes open. He asked the volunteers to lie down on the couch, stuck tape forever to foreheads to eyes closed, put before them a bunch of flashlights, hooked up electrodes to their feet to give painful discharges, when necessary, and included loud music directly in their ears.

Only three brave volunteer decided on an experiment. But, in spite of all obstacles and annoyances, electroencephalograph, connected to the brain of volunteers showed that all sweet slept for 12 minutes.

7) Excited turkeys

Scientists from the University of Pennsylvania, Martin Schein and Edgar Hale (Martin Schein, Edgar Hale) found that male turkeys, very promiscuous in the choice of targets for pairing. Turkeys, closed room, without restraint paired with a stuffed turkey, without paying attention to its artificial origin.

Scientists want to find out what should be the minimum sexual stimulus, turkeys began to mate. Gradually with stuffed starred part, as long as the turkeys have not lost all interest in him.

Schein and Hale removed with stuffed tail, legs and wings, but turkeys were not appeased, and all well with the victorious cries rushed to the stuffed animal and tried to make his case. Even when there was only a stuffed on his head on a stick, turkey continued to show a lively interest in sex.
By the way, turkeys prefer to head on a stick headless scarecrow.