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Science Once Figured Out How To Give Rats Gambling Problems – And How To Take Them Away (Cool Weird Awesome 964)
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Science Once Figured Out How To Give Rats Gambling Problems – And How To Take Them Away (Cool Weird Awesome 964)

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7 03, 2023

Science Once Figured Out How To Give Rats Gambling Problems – And How To Take Them Away (Cool Weird Awesome 964)

By Brady Carlson|2023-03-07T10:55:47-05:00March 7, 2023|Categories: Cool Weird Awesome, Podcasts|Tags: cereal, gambling, psychology, rats, South Korea|

Today in 2016, researchers released a study that showed how to influence rats to make risky bets in a “rat casino.”

A Bar Owner Invented The Cash Register Because He Didn’t Trust His Bartenders (Cool Weird Awesome 649)
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A Bar Owner Invented The Cash Register Because He Didn’t Trust His Bartenders (Cool Weird Awesome 649)

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4 11, 2021

A Bar Owner Invented The Cash Register Because He Didn’t Trust His Bartenders (Cool Weird Awesome 649)

By Brady Carlson|2021-11-04T06:56:40-04:00November 4, 2021|Categories: Cool Weird Awesome, Podcasts|Tags: inventions, oops, South Korea|

Today in 1879, a bar owner in Ohio received a patent for an invention that changed the way we buy and sell things: the cash register. He did it to thwart his bartenders, who he suspected of putting money meant for him in their own pockets. Plus: a professor in South Korea reveals one place from which you probably shouldn't give an online lecture.