Offbeat Disability and Health News, Stories, Images, Odd Stuff
Category Topic: Offbeat News
Author: Disabled World
Updated/Revised Date: 2022/04/09
Contents: Summary - Introduction - Main - Subtopics - Publications
Synopsis: Offbeat news and entertainment information about people places and things from the United States and around the world, mainly dealing with health and disability topics. Stories are sourced from various sources around the Internet that feature offbeat, odd, and strange news stories.
Introduction
Offbeat news and entertainment information about people places and things from the United States and around the world, mainly dealing with health and disability topics.
Main Document
Stories are sourced from submissions to Disabled World as well as various sources around the Internet that feature offbeat, odd, and strange news stories.
Subtopics
Latest Publications From Our Offbeat News Category
1: Americans Struggle to Identify Conspiracy Theories They Embrace as Truth - Research indicates a majority of Americans subscribe to various conspiracy theories. Given this widespread belief in conspiracies, why is there still a prevailing perception of conspiracy theorists as peculiar.
2: Lower Jersey Numbers Make U.S. Football Players Appear Thinner - Images of players in jerseys numbered from 10 to 19 look thinner than those in jerseys numbered from 80 to 89, even when body sizes were the same.
3: Adults and Kids Experience Time Differently - Researchers investigated whether the perception of time changes with age, and if so, how and why we perceive the passage of time differently.
4: Unrelated Look-alike People Share Characteristics - Researchers study pairs of unrelated people who are look-alikes and determine the impact of inheritance vs. environment.
5: There Goes the Neighborhood - Map Predicts How Neighborhoods Racial Makeup Will Change - Machine-learning models for spatially-explicit forecasting of future racial segregation in American cities.
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