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Two little morsels for you today...
First: the sale of KitKat bars is soaring in Japan. In fact, makers are said to be "struggling" to keep up to the surge in demand. Apparently, teenagers there are sure it will help them pass exams. It seems someone there has decided that the name KitKat sounds close to the Japanese "kitto katsu" which is an expression meaning "I'll do my best to succeed". The expression is oft-repeated by students coming up to exams, and since gaining acceptance to university in Japan is such a strenuous undertaking, the students and their parents look for help wherever they think it might be found, even inside the wrapper of a candy bar!
Second: Drivers who talk on their cell phones while they're behind the wheel exhibit the reaction time of seventy-year-olds. Researchers at the University of Utah conducted a study where they tested drivers aged 18 to 25 against drivers aged 65 to 74. There was the gap in reaction time and information processing that you would expect there to be, until the younger group were tested while talking on a phone. Then, the gap disappeared. Says Frank Drew, an assistant professor of psychology who worked on the study, "If you want to act old really fast, then talk on a cellphone while driving!"
First: the sale of KitKat bars is soaring in Japan. In fact, makers are said to be "struggling" to keep up to the surge in demand. Apparently, teenagers there are sure it will help them pass exams. It seems someone there has decided that the name KitKat sounds close to the Japanese "kitto katsu" which is an expression meaning "I'll do my best to succeed". The expression is oft-repeated by students coming up to exams, and since gaining acceptance to university in Japan is such a strenuous undertaking, the students and their parents look for help wherever they think it might be found, even inside the wrapper of a candy bar!
Second: Drivers who talk on their cell phones while they're behind the wheel exhibit the reaction time of seventy-year-olds. Researchers at the University of Utah conducted a study where they tested drivers aged 18 to 25 against drivers aged 65 to 74. There was the gap in reaction time and information processing that you would expect there to be, until the younger group were tested while talking on a phone. Then, the gap disappeared. Says Frank Drew, an assistant professor of psychology who worked on the study, "If you want to act old really fast, then talk on a cellphone while driving!"
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