Andrea Jones-Rooy

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The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe · The Skeptics Guide #978 - Apr 6 2024 podcast

That's right.

Like I don't really drink soda very much, but I'll get a Diet Coke on the plane, and I always really like it.

And I think apparently it's very annoying for flight attendants if you order soda because the carbonation is much higher, and so it's more of a pain to pour.

But I once had a Diet Coke recently on the ground, and it wasn't as good.

And I think, A, it's less carbonated, but, B, there is a special kind of ritual to it when you're flying.

Right.

The professor did this exercise where he had a student volunteer.

He said, who's the student who's willing to eat a lot right now and you're not allergic to popcorn or whatever?

And so he had the student sit in the front of the classroom and had a little thing of popcorn, like a little movie container, and said, have a few bites of popcorn and describe how you're feeling.

And he was like, oh, it's really good.

Oh, I'm really enjoying it.

Oh, it's great.

And then have a little more.

Oh, yeah, yeah, it's really good.

And then over the course of almost...

child i don't even know if you could get away with this this is the early 2000s you could do whatever you wanted in the classroom at the time uh 9-11 hadn't happened you know we could do whatever we wanted and so he would eat all this popcorn and and reported you know we watched in real time he was like i've kind of had enough like that's not that interesting anymore like i'd really rather stop and uh and so we all witnessed it in real time which i thought was a very creative way to describe what's otherwise kind of a dry concept

Yes.

But it was a big mystery for many years, right?

These diplomats are for, you know, mostly U.S.

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