All articles tagged with #mythbusting
Brothers Dr. Xand and Dr. Chris van Tulleken discuss and debunk common health worries, including microplastics in the brain, the necessity of high protein intake, and magnesium supplements, emphasizing that many health concerns are exaggerated or unnecessary to stress over.
The article critiques the exaggerated hype surrounding AI and cloud computing, highlighting massive, often misleading financial deals by companies like Oracle and NVIDIA, and questioning the authenticity of the AI boom, which is driven more by mythology and propaganda than real demand or technological breakthroughs.
A recent study suggests that vampire bats are faster than previously thought, challenging the myth that humans can easily outrun them. This new understanding of their speed and agility highlights the bats' efficiency as predators and may influence how we perceive their threat level.
The walking palm (Socratea exorrhiza), a tree rumored to move through the rainforests of Central and South America, does not actually walk. Despite tales of its ability to chase sunlight by moving up to 20 meters a year, studies by tropical ecologist Gerardo Avalos and others have debunked this myth, showing that while the tree can grow new roots to stabilize itself, it remains fixed to its place of germination. The long stilt roots of the walking palm are thought to help the tree exploit light gaps in the dense rainforest canopy, rather than for locomotion.