Sika deer on Japan's Yakushima Island let macaque monkeys groom them in exchange for food scraps and sexual mounting, creating what scientists awkwardly call "interspecies sexual behaviour with mutual benefits."
Nederland, Colorado hosts annual "Frozen Dead Guy Day" festivals celebrating Bredo Morstoel, whose body has been preserved in a shed on dry ice for decades after his grandson's cryogenic dreams failed.
Brazilian Butt Lifts cause "BBL smell" - a rancid odour from fat necrosis when transferred fat cells die and rot inside the body, which surgeons rarely mention before surgery.
Milan researchers found commuters offered seats to pregnant women more often when Batman was on the train, proving superhero costumes trigger prosocial behaviour because nobody wants to look bad in front of Batman.
AI-generated recipes tell people to bake cakes for days and combine impossible ingredients, confidently presenting unworkable instructions that ruin dinner.
Chinese researchers discovered rock, paper, scissors players stick with winning choices or switch after losses, revealing predictable patterns that can be exploited.
From deer trading sex for grooming to frozen dead guy festivals and butt lifts that smell like death - nature is uncomfortable, humans are weird and technology can't cook. Maybe stick to human recipes, don’t try to freeze Grandpa and think twice before committing to a bouncy-butt medical procedure.
CHAPTERS:
00:00 Introduction
00:35 Interspecies Sexual Mutualism
01:24 Unexpected Observations: Monkeys and Deer
06:15 Frozen Dead Guy: A Bizarre Tale of Cryogenics
14:03 Batman and Prosocial Behavior
20:20 Hilarious AI-Generated Food Recipes
30:39 The Ultimate Rock, Paper, Scissors Strategy
33:54 The Dark Side of Plastic Surgery
39:59 Conclusion and Final Thoughts
SOURCES:
Unexpected events and prosocial behavior: the Batman effect
https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/thanksgiving-dinner-ai-recipes-slop
https://www.aiweirdness.com/ai-recipes-are-bad-and-a-proposal-20-01-31/
https://www.aiweirdness.com/the-neural-network-has-weird-ideas-16-03-05/?ref=aiweirdness.com
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/article/macaque-monkey-deer-mate-sex-ride
https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/a60887514/diy-cryonics-frozen-dead-guy/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frozen_Dead_Guy_Days
https://www.vice.com/en/article/bbl-smell-is-real-and-just-as-gross-as-it-sounds/
https://plasticsurgery.org.au/procedures/surgical-procedures/buttocks-lift/
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