{"id":789,"date":"2008-06-11T06:36:00","date_gmt":"2008-06-11T11:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nicholsclan.com\/tinblog\/2008\/06\/another-milestone-for-science.html"},"modified":"2008-06-11T06:36:00","modified_gmt":"2008-06-11T11:36:00","slug":"another-milestone-for-science","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/2008\/06\/another-milestone-for-science.html","title":{"rendered":"Another Milestone for Science"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New research on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.livescience.com\/strangenews\/080610-bikini-effect.html\">The Bikini Effect<\/a> explains, among other things, why <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hooters.com\/\">Hooters<\/a> is a successful way to market hot wings and beer.  Key quote:<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"font-style: italic;\"><p>The researchers conclude that there is one common appetite <a set=\"yes\" linkindex=\"15\" href=\"http:\/\/www.livescience.com\/healthday\/601297.html\">system in the brain<\/a> monitoring our desire for a host of pleasures from sweets to pretty faces, alcohol to lotto winnings. When it is stimulated by, say, a sexy picture or the smell of baked goods, we experience a general craving for anything pleasant.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>While the article doesn&#8217;t explicitly say so, it seems this also may validate the old adage that the way to a man&#8217;s heart is through his stomach.  If girls can increase your interest in food because of a common &#8220;appetite&#8221; mechanism, then food should increase your interest in girls as well.<\/p>\n<p>Of course the downside of this revelation of how easily men make substitutions is that women may now realize that they can divert our unwanted frisky advances by offering us a beer or a big slice of pie.   (Mmmmm&#8230; pie!)  Or they could use a sexy situation to get us to make other unrelated impulsive decisions we might not otherwise make.  Then again, I think <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cosmopolitan.com\/\">Cosmo<\/a> runs articles on how to do this every month, so I suspect they already know.<\/p>\n<p>Once again, scientists get closer to codifying what women have known since the dawn of time.<\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\">\n<h6><span style=\"font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;\">Brought to you by Tim&#8230;<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/\">-Read the whole blog here-<\/a><\/span><\/h6>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New research on The Bikini Effect explains, among other things, why Hooters is a successful way to market hot wings<\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\"><a href=\"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/2008\/06\/another-milestone-for-science.html\" title=\"Read Another Milestone for Science\">Read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-789","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/789","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=789"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/789\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=789"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=789"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=789"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}