1. Counterintuitively, "underweight, even though it occurs in only a tiny fraction of the population, is actually associated with more excess deaths than class I obesity, " says Katherine M.

2. She argues, counterintuitively, that racial gerrymandering reduces black political influence.

3. And yet, somewhat counterintuitively, a more democratic China could be an even more dynamic great power than a repressive China would be, in an economic sense and hence in a military sense, too.

4. Counterintuitively, soft rings—made of rubber or leather, for instance—can lead to more severe injuries, Shindel says, because it is tempting to fasten them too tightly.

5. And counterintuitively you become wiser about the future because you saw its seeds being sown in the past.

6. But counterintuitively, Mandarin is easier than Spanish in many ways: there is no need to conjugate verbs, match gender or number, nor worry about tenses.

7. Evidence from elephants to rodents to humans shows that masturbating is—counterintuitively—an excellent way to make healthy babies, and lots of them.

8. The recession means, perhaps counterintuitively ,[sentence dictionary] that the incremental economic effect of a pandemic may be less dramatic than it would be in normal times.

9. Acidity depends on the presence of hydrogen ions (the H in pH) and more hydrogen ions mean, counterintuitively, a lower pH.

10. If anything, from an institutional point of view, Silicon Valley is — counterintuitively — a textbook example of 20th century capitalism.