Aerobics videos from the 1980s are amusing enough when theyre not set to contemporary pop songs. As SNLs Stefon would say, theyve got everything: spandex unitards, glistening pearly whites, and an overblown enthusiasm thats become unfashionable in the ensuing years. But set one of these heart-pumping videos to the number one pop song in the U.S. and youve got a viral sensation on your hands.

YouTube user Thomas Jung not only found an aerobics video that matches Taylor Swifts Shake It Off within a fraction of a beat, but he found one from 1989, the year of Swifts birth and the title of her latest album. The dozens of aerobicisers clap, pump and shimmy so enthusiastically to the song that its hard to imagine that they could have been dancing to any other music.

This workout is no joke, and if you find yourself unable to keep up with the moves, dont despair: Theres still one copy of the Crystal Light National Aerobic Championship Workout available on VHS on Amazon.

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One year before the musician behind 1989was born, this great countryof ours played host to the 1988Crystal Light aerobic championships. While magnificent, this display of competitiverhythmicexercise was still missing something something that would not arrive for a quarter century. Genius YouTube userThomas Jung found that noted 80's baby Taylor Swift's "Shake It Off" perfectly syncs up to the energetic opening dance number. Perfectly. Not to oversell it, but the resulting Youtube video is without a doubt the crowning achivement of the human race. Watch it above and marvel.

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This Old Aerobics Video Syncs Perfectly With Taylor Swift's 'Shake It Off'

A new study out of Duke University found that many people treat their politics like some folks treat their health: If they don't like the likely solution, they just ignore the problem.

This, the study posits, is why far more Republicans deny climate change than Democrats. It's not necessarily that they don't trust the science, it's that they don't like the idea of new government regulations to address the issue.

The study calls this "solution aversion." Researchers performed an experiment described in a press release that went out today summarizing some of the study:

Participants in the experiment, including both self-identified Republicans and Democrats, read a statement asserting that global temperatures will rise 3.2 degrees in the 21st century. They were then asked to evaluate a proposed policy solution to address the warming.

When the policy solution emphasized a tax on carbon emissions or some other form of government regulation, which is generally opposed by Republican ideology, only 22 percent of Republicans said they believed the temperatures would rise at least as much as indicated by the scientific statement they read.But when the proposed policy solution emphasized the free market, such as with innovative green technology, 55 percent of Republicans agreed with the scientific statement.For Democrats, the same experiment recorded no difference in their belief, regardless of the proposed solution to climate change.As study authors Troy Campbell and Aaron Kay wrote in the introduction to their paper about this study, this shows "not necessarily an aversion to the problem, per se, but an aversion to the solutions associated with the problem."The study put liberals through a similar excercise. Again, from the news release:"The researchers found liberal-leaning individuals exhibited a similar aversion to solutions they viewed as politically undesirable in an experiment involving violent home break-ins. When the proposed solution called for looser versus tighter gun-control laws, those with more liberal gun-control ideologies were more likely to downplay the frequency of violent home break-ins."Now, as with any psychological study, the question is, How can I use this to manipulate people? The answer, perhaps, lies in this comment, from Kay."We should not just view some people or group as anti-science, anti-fact or hyper-scared of any problems," Kay said. "Instead, we should understand that certain problems have particular solutions that threaten some people and groups more than others. When we realize this, we understand those who deny the problem more and we improve our ability to better communicate with them."The brief sections of the full study that I read made interesting reading, partly due to phrases such as"motivated biases in cognition" and "dichotomous measure of (dis)agreement."You can get the full thing here, assuming you're a member of the American Psychological Association. Or drop me an email and I'll send it your way.

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Duke study: Solution aversion, not science denial on climate change