I don't know where to say this, but it must be said, and so I shall say it here. The common myth that all mammals take 21 seconds to pee is utterly false. It's all based on one idiotic study that is clearly contradicted by your own experience as a mammal (and by my dog). Yet it keeps getting picked up by news outlets as fact.
#sciencemyths

Today's featured post is one of those occasions where the question itself requires more explanation that the answer. Do we really only use 10% of our brain?
https://matildaslab.wordpress.com/2018/09/10/do-we-really-only-use-10-of-our-brain/

#scicomm #sciencemyths #science

"Kate Mills, a developmental neuroscientist at the University of Oregon, was equally puzzled. “This is funny to me—I don’t know why 25,” Mills said. “We’re still not there with research to really say the brain is mature at 25, because we still don’t have a good indication of what maturity even looks like.”"

Pop culture always turns smooth change into a discrete step-function.

https://slate.com/technology/2022/11/brain-development-25-year-old-mature-myth.html

#Neuroscience #PopScience #ScienceMyths