I read a few psychology studies a while back that found that the two highest predictors of how much food you eat in a meal are:

# 1: The number of people eating with you: there is a direct positive correlational relationship between the number of people eating with you and the amount of food you eat. This may have something to do with the "don't eat and multitask" point, as people tend to be distracted and talking while eating.

# 2: The variety of food on offer: The more variety on offer, the more you eat. I don't think this needs to be explained.

These findings were robust and replicable. I also remember environmental temperature being a good predictor, with people eating more in colder temperatures than hotter.

I'd take these postcards any day over the comparatively boring scenic ones that are so popular these days.

Uh KillerBee.....obviously a joke. Seriously.

@Miss Cellania

But what about hearing AND vision-impaired drivers?

This is the comment that takes the argument to the next boring level, citing various studies (researchers et al., 2006) and then going off on a tangent so that it ends up way off track.

I will probably point out various flaws in the methodology of the various studies cited by the research article.

I will comment on all the comments made so far, no matter how irrelevant, disagreeing with the bulk of them, but being sure to mention that one or two of the previous commenter have made good points n order to let everyone know that I am not just arguing for the sake of arguing (which I am).

Perhaps I will even somehow manage to link the research article to an irrelevant yet controversial topic such as the banning of the burqua in order to incite more arguing. I will then save this page to my favourites and revisit it frequently, viciously defending my arguments to anyone who dares question my logic.

I do not know the meaning of conciseness. My comment is multiple paragraphs long and as a result most people will never read it.

I've named my groin...

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...if saving someone's life so that their husband/your boss won't kill you counts as a romantic gesture.

Tim Burton and Johnny Depp, get a room!

@ Craig

They do need more facilities if they are to make much of an impact, however you may have a point.

As someone with allergies, I blow my nose in the car all the time when I'm at a red light with my foot on the break.

You would think that sneezing is more dangerous than blowing one's nose as they are more unexpected (so they are more likely to happen when the car is moving) and force you to close you eyes, but you would never hear of someone being fined for sneezing while driving would you?

It seems that the Neatoramabot is being triggered for around 80% of the comments I make, no matter how tame. Even if it's only a couple of words long.

Seriously, what's the deal?

@Betta

This version of the song is called We No Speak Americano by Yolanda be Cool. The group that sampled the original song are aware that at no point do the lyrics ever say anything along the lines of "we no speak Americano", but while this version may not be for everyone, that's what the track is called.

I've heard about single ants doing this, but not this many!

Apparently some ant species have a built in odometer so they can calculate how many steps it will take them to get back to the nest in a straight line. So when experimenters either shortened their legs or glued on tiny stilts, they either under- or over-shooted the mark where they thought the nest was, and then proceeded to walk in increasingly larger concentric circles, hoping to come across the nest, but often dying of starvation and exhaustion before they found it.

Obviously a different mechanism to what's causing these ants to walk in circles, but pretty interesting nonetheless.

An article:
http://www.dw-world.de/dw/article/0,,4114287,00.html

And the free abstract in J. Exp. Biol.:
http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/abstract/312/5782/1965
An interesting read if you have a subscription.

It would make a great Neatorama story!

Very sad :'(