You will die alone…now solve this problem.

In a recent book review discussing a book on lonliness and its negative impact on health, there was this curious passage.

If subjects are told for the purposes of experiment that they will face a lonely future, they score lower on intelligence tests and abandon tasks sooner. If cookies are set before subjects who have been told that no one else in the experiment wants to work with them, they eat twice as many as those who have been told that everyone else in the experiment wants to work with them.

I’ve always argued against the idiocy of half the ethics guidelines but this seems a good case for a query. Its not hard to imagine a long lasting, let’s say a haunting continuing echo, of a directive that you are lonely and will die alone in your apartment, your body not being discovered for days, and possibly being partially eaten by cats.

And in other health related news…

This courtesy of InventorSpot
…the shopping cart wash…capitalizing on all the germophobes out there.

You gotta end with something good…great animal portrait from the best nature photography of the year at NationalGeographic