Answered: a question I’ve been wondering about for years
My dog was a champ at this:
While we’re at it, here’s another. This one’s about yawning:
Dr. Seuss remarked on this phenomenon in a book I used to read to my son at bedtime, in the hope (usually vain) that it would induce sleep. I’m doing this from memory, so it might not be an exact quote; at one time I had quite a few lengthy Dr. Seuss books entirely memorized, but those skills are a bit rusty:
A yawn is quite catching, you see, like a cough
It just takes one yawn to start other yawns off.
The question is whether these videos are really “science in 60 seconds” as the narrator claims or are they 60 seconds worth of just so stories? Or are they some combination of both? I lean towards mostly just so stories with a smattering of science.
Dennis:
I don’t know about the other videos in the series, which I’ve never seen. But the dog one is based on science; I’ve seen the science discussed in more sober, scholarly terms.
I once peed at 12,500′. Does that make me an alpha dog?
My dog doesn’t seem to care which way he faces to poop.
I yawn whenever Obama speaks. Is that scientific?
I love the Sleep Book! Bring on the Biggle Balls.
“I yawn whenever Obama speaks. Is that scientific?”
No it is a conditioned response from our past.
In the past, we would defend ourselves from those that would cause us harm or despise us.
Sort of like how raising our hand to say hello comes from a time when you needed to show your fellow traveler you didn’t have a knife or sword in it.
Nowadays we simply yawn when being fed a large quantity of BS. Sort of like how we also yawn whenever Paul Rino (aka Ryan) opens his mouth. 🙁
And in case you missed it, so nice of PP to remember their media friends that support them at Christmas. In this case, we have devolved instead of evolving. 🙁
http://acecomments.mu.nu/?post=360793
“Planned Parenthood sends a holiday gift to reproductive health reporters: Emergency Chocolate. Sarah Kliff”
“And yes, that is Sarah Kliff, former “reproductive health reporter” for the Washington Post, who infamously said she wasn’t covering the Gosnell House of Horrors because it was a “local crime story.”
I read something recently – for all I know it was on this site – that sociopaths are less prone to contagious yawning, because they have a diminished sense of empathy.