Life

Misconceptions Sources

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Sleepwalking

http://mentalfloss.com/article/49053/why-arent-you-supposed-wake-sleepwalker

http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20120208-it-is-dangerous-to-wake-a-sleepwa

http://www.citynews.ca/2006/10/27/man-acquitted-of-sleepwalking-murder-running-for-school-trustee-in-durham/

 

10 Percent Brain

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ten_percent_of_the_brain_myth

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/do-we-really-use-only-10/

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-08-11/do-we-only-use-10-per-cent-of-our-brains/5648810

 

Black Widow Females Always Eat Male

http://www.burkemuseum.org/spidermyth/myths/blackwidow.html

http://www.springer.com/about+springer/media/springer+select?SGWID=0-11001-6-1419055-0

http://phys.org/news/2013-05-reversal-black-widow-myth.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latrodectus

 

Use By Dates Myth

http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/03/14/us-food-summit-foodwaste-idUSBRE82D1E520120314

http://www.eatbydate.com/whats-in-a-date-shelf-life/

https://brobible.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/wasted-food-ip.pdf

http://philadelphia.cbslocal.com/2011/10/03/3-on-your-side-exposing-myths-about-expiration-dates-on-foods/

 

Blue Blood

http://mentalfloss.com/article/24249/if-blood-red-why-do-veins-look-blue

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venous_blood

 

Chewing Gum

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/fact-or-fiction-chewing-gum-takes-seven-years-to-digest/

http://science.howstuffworks.com/science-vs-myth/everyday-myths/gum-seven-years.htm

 

Swimming Cramp Myth

http://health.howstuffworks.com/mental-health/human-nature/health-myths/swimming-after-eating1.htm

http://www.todayifoundout.com/index.php/2011/01/swimming-within-an-hour-after-eating-is-not-dangerous/

 

World Getting Peaceful

http://www.pri.org/stories/2014-09-29/world-actually-becoming-more-peaceful-believe-it-or-not

http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/foreigners/2014/12/the_world_is_not_falling_apart_the_trend_lines_reveal_an_increasingly_peaceful.html

http://time.com/3577026/crime-rates-drop-1970s/

 

Food Pyramid is wrong

http://www.rense.com/general12/wrong.htm

http://www.nursingdegree.net/blog/746/10-most-pervasive-food-pyramid-myths/

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/nation/daily/graphics/diet_042005.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Food_pyramid_%28nutrition%29#Controversy

 

 

Great Wall Great Myth

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/is-chinas-great-wall-visible-from-space/

http://www.nasa.gov/vision/space/workinginspace/great_wall.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth