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The human race has scaled the tallest mountains, charted the deepest oceans and played a quick front nine on the freaking moon, but there's one frontier that still largely mystifies us: our own bodies. There are everyday phenomenons you'd think must have been explained ages ago, but in reality asking these simple questions of a scientist will net you at best a shrug, and at worst some bullshit he just made up off the top of his head. #6.
Yawning
The act of yawning is baffling to experts for two reasons. One, it doesn't actually seem to serve any purpose. Seriously, when you feel a yawn coming on, suppress it. What happens? Do you go into convulsions? Is your face racked by pain? Does blood shoot from your nose? No. Not a damned thing happens. Equally baffling, though, is the contagious nature of it. Yawn, and whoever sees you will yawn. When a chimpanzee yawns, the other chimps yawn. If you yawn, you can make a dog yawn. Seriously, try it.
Odds are you've yawned once just because you read the word "yawn" several times above. Why? Science's Wild-Ass Guess: Your science textbook in elementary school may have said that low oxygen levels in the blood triggered yawning, with the yawn providing a quick influx of the gas. That was the prevailing theory going back to the days of ancient Greece. As is usually the case though, it turns out people from back in the day didn't know what the hell they were talking about. In fact it's been found yawning may actually decrease oxygen intake. Makes sense, when you do hard exercise you don't start frantically yawning. You don't see athletes yawning in the middle of a sprint. Unfortunately, the alternatives are quite a bit more insane. Such as the theory that yawning is the body's way of controlling brain temperature. Yeah, apparently scientists think our brains function with all the complexity of an old car engine. And you know how you're always yawning when you wear a hat, right? Right?
The proof of this was experiments in which it was found people with cool packs attached to their heads yawned less. Unless there could be some other reason people sitting in an unfamiliar lab with ice packs on their heads weren't much in a yawning mood... As for why yawning is contagious, some scientists have pointed to human being's primitive herd instincts, figuring group yawning could have helped regulate sleeping patterns so that a "whoops, we all fell asleep at once and got eaten by giant sloths" situation didn't develop. This remains merely a theory though, and of course still doesn't explain why people yawn while on their own. #5.
Adolescence
Hey teenagers, need something else to add to your angst pile? Turns out these awkward times you're going through are far from universal in the animal kingdom. It's only humans Mother Nature decided to kick in the nuts, cursing to an opposite sex-repelling bubble of greasy clumsiness. What evolutionary sense does it make for guys to be confined to their parents' basements smearing Clearasil on their face during their prime sexual years?
Scientists can't even agree when exactly the adolescent phase evolved. Some believe teenagers were awkward balls of nerves and nose grease as early as the Homo erectus era over a million years ago, while others think it's a much more recent development. Until they find a Homo erectus skeleton holding a fossilized iPod filled with My Chemical Romance songs, we may never know for sure.
Science's Wild-Ass Guess: Some scientists argue that guys' half-decade of dorkdom is designed to force them develop traits chicks dig, like a sense of humor, artistic talent and conversational skills. Honestly though this theory sounds like the wishful thinking of scientists who don't want to face the ugly truth that their memorization of the periodic table and every Battlestar Galactica episode won't be getting them in any girl's pants ever. Plus, it's hard to buy from an evolutionary perspective. Are we seriously to believe that all the guys who didn't have awkward teen years somehow got bred out of the population? Where we went to high school, while the clumsy awkward teens were trying to discover our charming adult personalities, the cool teens were busy having sex with one another. After a few thousand years of that, shouldn't evolution dictate that we all turn into Sean Connery on our 13th birthday?
#4.
Placebo Effect
It's obvious why some placebos work. A guy says he's feeling nauseous, you give him a sugar pill and tell him it'll cure it. He stops worrying about his stomach, thus the stomach calms down. The "herbal Viagra" industry and products like ExtenZe can enhance sexual performance by making the man think he has taken something that will enhance his sexual performance. It's easy to imagine how it works. But the placebo effect goes way, way beyond that. Completely imaginary drugs have been found to help everything from warts, to heart disease, to asthma. Doctors have even gone so far as to conduct sham knee surgeries that were almost as effective as the real thing.
What the hell? Science's Wild-Ass Guess: First, there's debate over whether the placebo effect is even real at all, with some believing that most recoveries attributed to the effect can be explained by the body's natural healing abilities (as in, the patients would have gotten better even if they hadn't seen a doctor at all). On one level, that's actually pretty disturbing. Keep in mind, some studies show placebos work as well as actual medical techniques in up to 50 to 60 percent of cases. Yes, it's possible 50 to 60 percent of what the trillion dollar medical industry does could be achieved by staying home, resting and watching daytime TV. Try not to think about that one too much or you may end up on YouTube screaming something at a town hall meeting. Others have even hypothesized the placebo effect may just be us unconsciously ignoring or repressing symptoms so we please our doctors. Meaning, the patient was still in pain, but was fed up with sitting in the waiting room for an hour every week so finally said, "fuck it." Tell the doc you're all better and get him to sign a note for you to return to work.
None of those explain everything, including the extremely weird fact that the phenomenon has become more and more powerful in recent years. Again we ask, what the hell? |
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You're mixing your mythology Robbie. And yes, that is what I find most offensive about your statement.
Why don't we ask Al Gore, he'll know. After all, he invented the Internet, delayed an election he actually lost, and thinks he's Zeus, Poseidon and Mercury. And sorry if you were born with Pubic hair on your head. You'll just have to get over it.
user, it's "6 Things Your Body Does Every Day That Science Can't Explain", not 6 Things Your Body Does Every Day That Science Can't Explain and Never Will. I would thank to not use the photo avatar of our former Secretary of State while making cheap shots at Americans, especially since when you do so you are saying ALL Americans are stupid, not just the one single American who wrote this article, not just the ones who didn't graduate high school, not just the conservatives or liberals, but all Americans you racist. Also the Scientific Method is just fancy words for the process of peer review, which any knucklehead can do.
1deviousbastard, you're making the assumption that racist and funny are mutually exclusive, which is not the case.
Man, for someone on humor's side you sure sound angry.
Wow, we got some whiny b***hes. The ones shouting racism, the comparison to 10- year olds. It's measly little worms like the lot of you that need to just f**k off. It's humor. Which most of you are surely lacking. Fucking pansy-ass bastards.
Wow, we got some whiny b***hes. The ones shouting racism, the comparison to 10- year olds. It's measly little worms like the lot of you that need to just f**k off. It's humor. Which most of you are surely lacking. Fucking pansy-ass bastards.
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Science cannot YET explain. Like anyone else has ever explained anything of significance without the scientific method. Stupid Americans.
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Lamb29, hiccups are not just caused by spasmodic breathing. You have this thing called the epiglottis. It's an organic valve over your larynx that keeps food and drink from going into your lungs. Usually when you inhale a muscle holds it open. But, sometimes that muscle gets tired; and when you inhale the epiglottis gets sucked down onto the larynx. Depending on how hard you're breathing in this can happen rather forcefully, even painfully.
Come to think of it yawning and stretching are often done simultaneously, so you have to figure the behavioral impulse is the same. And, maybe someone else has already commented on this, but I think placebo effect becoming more effective over time has to do with people becoming more confident in the power of modern medicine. We expect the pills the Doctors hand us to do amazing things. Then again that expectation also means we don't stick around as long when we don't get results, which supports the people are saying "f**k it" hypothesis.
My take? Yawning is just stretching the jaw muscles. It's kind of the same feeling you get when get into a natural stretch after sitting around for awhile. It's also why it's associated with exhaustion. Your face muscles have been set under tension for awhile; and it's worse for the jaw muscles because of their range of motion. A closed mouth has your jaw muscles practically fully contracted. Only when you sleep do your muscles relax and regenerate. Blushing is sexual. The flow of blood to the capillaries telegraphs fertility in females. This has become a signal of vulnerability in both females and even males. This is because as social animals dominance and submission posturing is an important part of establishing hierarchy.
Does anyone else find the afro/pubic hair comparison offensive? My silky smooth pubes look absolutely nothing like a kinky fro.
This article is a sad commentary on the decline of morals and writing standards today. In the second sentence of this article by Nathan Birch, it says "...at worst some bulls**t he just..." This is not ok Mr. Birch! This kind of writing makes me think of a 10 year old boy in a school yard attempting to be cool. A 10 year old boy who is not clever enough to communicate without profanity. Sad. Birch is to be pitied for his pathetic attempts to act like a grown-up.
There are two things science will never explain. One is why people have faith in God. He can't be seen and those who don't believe in him think they have evidence he doesn't exist. But since animals don't worship God, evolution would not allow humans to believe in God either. But people still do. Also, why do people vote for liberals when they have messed things up so much? Yet people viote for liberals anyways. It's like being a Cubs fan. You would think the fans would realize the Cubs have as much chance to win the World Series as Bill Clinton has of becoming a raging lesbian. But I guess if I see Bill with boobs, long hair, and a voice as shrill as Hillary as he speaks out against men I might see the Cubs win the Series. But it might be a close series.
I always thought we yawned to make us less tired. I can't explain it scientifically. Vinss: I'm not sure if that's the complete truth though. We can take in a lot of air without breathing. Just act as if you are going to hold your breath for a long time, and take in as much air accordingly. Also, some people yawn when they are just bored. You don't even have to be tired to yawn.
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Yawning has been explained. When you're tired, you take in less air that it should to feed your brain, thus, your body will automatically make you breathe in alot of air in one shot; that's yawning.
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Nice one. An afro has the same texture as pubic hair. That's not racist at all.
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whenever i hold in a yawn it makes my body feel super jittery and then I do some weird body twitch for half a second.
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I think that pupic hair was developed to give us protection for our fun-bits. Like, if you have a thick, springy mass of hair, then it can deflect pressure, and thus protect you. Seriously, for those of you who don't shave, and/or have pretty thick short-and-curlies, try taking something small and light(or a quarter or penny, if you're brave), and bouncing it off your fuz. It works!
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I"m sorry to say that if any of you came here to actually learn something..........you should be stripped naked in front of a bunch of sorority girls and humiliated like the retard you are. I appreciate the fact that its mildly informative, but come on get a grip you guys. And for the guy below this comment who goes into morbidly boring detail about what yawning is....thanks for taking up 30 secs of my life that i wont get back. You explain to me what yawning is....and ill tell you what a vagina feels like.......(stolen from daniel tosh stand up)
Yawning is a physiological recruitment maneuver. Alveoli are microscopic air filled spaces lined with a thin layer of fluid (surfactant), as such they tend to collapse due to inwards pull of surface tension. Lower airway collapse creates a ventilation/perfusion mismatch and prevents efficient ciliary clearance of mucous, pre-disposing to pneumonia. A patient who is intubated and ventilated for a prolonged period requires intermittent alveolar recruitment maneuvers supported by positive end expiratory pressure (PEEP) ventilation to splint the lower airways open and reduce the risk of infection. Critical Care. 2003; 7(1): 9–10.
the pube thing is totally weird, but I was always told that hair in the underarms and pubic region attracted lice to keep us interested in that area and make sure we kept good care of it. Seems kind of regressive to me. But the Aquatic Ape Hypothesis states that our subcutaneous layer of fat, that is absent from all other land mammals, helped us adapt to an aquatic environment. I think that might explain the differences between us and our ape neighbors.
Yawning stretches your neck muscles and increases your heart rate,which increases your alertness (Moorcroft, 2003) One down, five to go. :)
Yawning stretches your neck muscles and increases your heart rate,which increases your alertness (Moorcroft, 2003) One down, five to go. :)
I'm seeing a constant theme of random racist comments towards the Japanese.
Why does the yawn section mention nothing about tiredness?
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I actually yawned right before I opened this article...and about 3 times while reading it. One thing to point out: how is it possible that scientists don't know what causes adolescence/puberty when I do??
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On adolescence: the current state of adolescence is more of a result of nurturing; the continuing infantilization of teens is causes them to be more dependent, more irrational, and less able to cope with hardships than they were 200+ years ago. In the 1700s and 1800s (and also earlier), 16-year-olds were considered adults, got married, tended land, went to war, and so on. They were treated as adults, so they acted like adults. They didn't spend time whining about their dolls, because they were learning to sew and cook, or build barns. Or whatever the hell they did back then. The rest of it is all just cosmetics, and there's always someone willing to overlook your flaws to get at your fun bits. For some people, they lose weight or get bigger boobs/junk in puberty. Also, the catch 22 for men is that their sexual virility is caused by the massive amounts of hormones...which also causes acne, greasy skin, and changes in voice.
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What on earth is everyone's problem with pubic hair?!? Studies show it increases sexual sensitivity for one thing. And since it's one of the signs that designates a post-pubescent from a pre-pubesescent human, I'd say evolutionary theory be damned. I think people who dislike pubic hair are people who haven't quite grown up emotionally enough to desire full-grown adults. And yes, the ancient Egyptians (inventors of all sorts of depilatory techniques,) also over-prized the sexual attractiveness of youth. Just like us. Personally, I've always found that men who don't like pubic hair on women are the same ones who are fine with topless beaches, but object to breastfeeding in public. These guys also tend to have temp jobs and spend a lot of time watching football and playing video games. Evolutionarily speaking, not a great catch.
The baby didn't exactly grab hold, but the hand cuffs sure did...
i just yawned several dozen times in a row. anyway, a theory i heard about dreams has it that when we're asleep, some of our neurons just kind of get bored and start randomly firing, and since the neurons that interpret sensory information don't know the difference between reality and not-reality (the just pick up signals from other neurons), dreams are the way they deal with the random firing. it also makes sense that we dream about what we've been thinking about, because the neural patterns that represent those things will be stronger and more likely to fire.
@pedgerow; "And I remember reading somewhere that the distribution of hair on bodies is to do with us evolving from things that lived underwater or something like that." Is this where the "bearded clam" came from?lol I believe that, since a woman has natural pubic hair, it's just proof that they didn't originate in Brazil.
Honestly though this theory sounds like the wishful thinking of scientists who don't want to face the ugly truth that their memorization of the periodic table and every Battlestar Galactica episode won't be getting them in any girl's pants ever. it might get you into my panties, but of course i'm an unpopular-with-the-opposite-gender nerdy overweight girl. seriously guys; of course your changes of getting laid are slim if you all go after the head cheer-leader.
My children are always grabbing my crotch. Don't think I could support their weight, though. Probably shouldn't post this, makes me sound like some kind of deviant.
The sadistic hussy left me with ingrown hairs
"Odds are you've yawned once just because you read the word "yawn" several times above." DAMN YOU!
Chris, about your theory. I submit that those areas are not sensitive and hence need to be protected, but are sensitive because they are protected. To demonstrate, feel the skin on your forearm and then the skin on your thigh. Unless you spend a lot of time in speedos or walking around outside naked, there is probably a difference. The skin on your forearm is tougher. There is a similar difference between your thigh and calf, right? Well areas like your crotch and armpits are not only protected by your clothing from the sun and elements, but are also protected by hair. Therefore, I conclude that if we did not have that hair, and were naked, hunting cave men, the skin on those areas of our body would have developed to be tougher like the exposed areas of skin. Taken from this perspective, that protection seems like a damn good idea, or else we may have the horrifying concept of leathery, weatherbeaten crotch skin. You're welcome, those of you who for some reason are looking at porn while reading this.
Chris, about your theory. I submit that those areas are not sensitive and hence need to be protected, but are sensitive because they are protected. To demonstrate, feel the skin on your forearm and then the skin on your thigh. Unless you spend a lot of time in speedos or walking around outside naked, there is probably a difference. The skin on your forearm is tougher. There is a similar difference between your thigh and calf, right? Well areas like your crotch and armpits are not only protected by your clothing from the sun and elements, but are also protected by hair. Therefore, I conclude that if we did not have that hair, and were naked, hunting cave men, the skin on those areas of our body would have developed to be tougher like the exposed areas of skin. Taken from this perspective, that protection seems like a damn good idea, or else we may have the horrifying concept of leathery, weatherbeaten crotch skin. You're welcome, those of you who for some reason are looking at porn while reading this.
the placebo thing is easy. The human mind can do anything it puts its'... mind.. to. From math, to becoming famous, to getting into outer space and wandering around. to unravelling awesome s**t, that people like gallileo and einstein, as brilliant as they were, weren'teven scratching the surface of,. Where they thought they had reality pinned down, and figured out, They were barely sniffing the edges. That s**t once seemed impossible. But people kept using their minds and got s**t done. Now we have quantam physics and the f**king 26 unseen dimensions of String Theory... and it WORKS. Hippies ruined a lot of awesome ideas (see: tim Leary, he had a thousand realistically awesome and useful insights into reality yet he's famous for inspiring drop-outs and smuggling weed in his daughters panties), and the power of positive thinking is one of them. If you think yr well, yr body will adjust, thus placebos work. You could say it's a no brainer, except for the fact it's all brain and us humans are powerful on levels we dont even realise. A Fact that Brockway will come in his pants over roughly every five minutes from now until eternity.
Yes, I did yawn. I'm still yawning. Now it'll take me forever to stop. Thank you for ruining my life.
"Try not to think about that one too much or you may end up on YouTube screaming something at a town hall meeting." *Sigh* I just cried laughing after reading that, soo funny.
Ok, I know this is a comedy website, and they do this for the laughs of course, but i have had a theory about this for a while now and never bothered to look into it. So I pose the question to the internet mindstorm for approval. You know when you shave the junk, and the next day it can get a little red and raw down there simply from walking around? You know it happens gentlemen, don't think you are alone. Parts start rubbing around, and things can get uncomfortable. Well imagine you are out in the bush, (actual foliage people, not of the female variety) and you are hunting a wild boar. Do you think you would want anything like chaffing in the "nether regions" distracting you from the kill? And do you think the cave men coming home empty handed, hungry and begging to share food are getting to bump nasties (literally) later that evening? Of course not. Same works for under your arms, and even your body hair could protect you from twigs and branches. I think it is an evolutionary characteristc that is being phased out. We no longer need this protection and thus we are losing body hair. The fact that body hair is still considered a "manly" trait by many women I think is instinctual, but too much body hair being a turn off is most likley a social influence. I'm too lazy to google this and see if anyone thought of this yet, so what do you guys think?
Ah, I find it humorous when people get all bent out of shape about Cracked's information. Everyone seems to forget rather quickly that this is a comedy site. Whatever facts they use, they've done it for the giggles.
The baby on the pubic hair f**king hurt. A lot.
The baby on the pubic hair f**king hurt. A lot.
Science also can't explain (I'm sorry, hasn't yet formed an experiment to repeatedly demonstrate the reason behind) why I feel it necessary to inform the webernet of my opinion on the reliability of a comedy article to inform me about science. My hypotheosis, however, is that I have several good half-articles saved on my hard drive but refuse to submit them until I've sufficiently degraded all other Cracked writers to the point that my articles will seem funny by comparison... except for Bocholz and DOB. Ain't no stopping that funny train.
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great job stealing from new scientist guys.
I hate it when people say "science can't explain" something. Science may not have a completely proven explanation yet, but there are always a multitude of hypotheses (what you refer to as "Wild-Ass Guesses", though scientists usually use the shorthand WAGs). That's how science works. Until somebody develops an experiment that can prove a hypothesis -- strictly and repeatedly -- it's unproven, but not "unexplained." "Unexplained" is such a tired, old effort to add a bit of drama. You might as well put a sheet over your head and yell "BOO!".
I hate it when people say "science can't explain" something. Science may not have a completely proven explanation yet, but there are always a multitude of hypotheses (what you refer to as "Wild-Ass Guesses", though scientists usually use the shorthand WAGs). That's how science works. Until somebody develops an experiment that can prove a hypothesis -- strictly and repeatedly -- it's unproven, but not "unexplained." "Unexplained" is such a tired, old effort to add a bit of drama. You might as well put a sheet over your head and yell "BOO!".
I'd like to be pedantic, and make you all hate me, by pointing out that my body doesn't do "adolescence" every day. And I remember reading somewhere that the distribution of hair on bodies is to do with us evolving from things that lived underwater or something like that. Of course, I'm probably remembering it wrong, and the place I read it was under the control of scientists anyway. By the way: I have hairy legs, ass, genitals, stomach, chest, shoulders, arms, beard region (when I don't shave), and some of my back, all at the age of just 22. Can anyone here beat that?
Your sweat does contain natural pheromones, and your body hair lets that smell linger.
what about armpit hair? wtf does that protect?
So is there 261 comments because this is a really popular article? or is it because everyone is double and triple posting?
I'll give Cracked that I yawn, dream, blush, and have pubic hair every day, but I most definitely do not go through adolescence or experience the placebo effect every day. This title needs a rethinking, but good article.
I've heard it told that yawns are contagious due to our evolutionary development as pack animals, mimicking behavior is another example of this (e.g. cringing when we see someone in pain). For a lot of animals (e.g. dogs) it makes sense as well.
I've heard it told that yawns are contagious due to our evolutionary development as pack animals, mimicking behavior is another example of this (e.g. cringing when we see someone in pain). For a lot of animals (e.g. dogs) it makes sense as well.
George Clooney's next movie: The Men who Yawn at Dogs
@ Saboo That actually makes a lot of sense. Now for sure...why are they contagious? I always thought pubic hair was less for insulation and more to relieve friction between areas that commonly rub together (hence the armpit and between the thighs.) Doesn't really explain why pubes migrate to a person's back though. .
I think cracked articles are to blame for like %95 of my yawns. Just kidding, I think most of this stuff is funny.
@ Saboo That actually makes a lot of sense. Now for sure...why are they contagious? I always thought pubic hair was less for insulation and more to relieve friction between areas that commonly rub together (hence the armpit and between the thighs.) Doesn't really explain why pubes migrate to a person's back though. .
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@ Saboo That actually makes a lot of sense. Now for sure...why are they contagious? I always thought pubic hair was less for insulation and more to relieve friction between areas that commonly rub together (hence the armpit and between the thighs.) Doesn't really explain why pubes migrate to a person's back though. .
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That is a whole lot of words to say something most people already understand: "Don't come to a comedy site looking for your education." The people that don't understand that usually end up either chugging bleach sooner or later, anyway.
please excuse the double post, no idea why it happened
It's a bit amusing to read this article, because it really doesn't try to look hard at anything. Nor think about different aspects of reasons and the why's and how's, but instead just cuts short in an attempt to be witty and funny, ending up in an incoherent mess of bulls**t that ain't fun at all. Blushing not explained? Are you f**king kidding me? People blush as an emotional responce to something, it can be anything that gets their blood flowing from shyness to anger when blood starts pumping, visualising a physical responce to an emotion. Some people do it less or perhaps not at all, because they react less. And vice versa. You can even go read about it on freaking wikipedia. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blushing Pubic hair has no evolutionary reason? What about insolation? A big bush keeps heat in and protects against the elements ever so slightly. 10/20/2009 06:06:21 AM Oh my. Where to begin. 1. You're a total waste of flesh if you came here seeking knowledge. 2. People blush for many more reasons than emotions...try rosacea for one, or simply a "fight or flight" response 3 .If you're getting your "reliable information" from Wikipedia, a site "fact checked" by any one who wanders in and posts....well i guess there's no point in insulting that. 4. I'm not sure where you're going with the "solar radiation somehow tied to pubic hair" theory, but insolation is not a reason to grow fur on your dongly bits. It would , however, be a great excuse for say, Alaska, to grow a bush. Please people, stop acting like you're just wandering particle physicists here on a random chance. When we want REAL info, we click the red links.
It's a bit amusing to read this article, because it really doesn't try to look hard at anything. Nor think about different aspects of reasons and the why's and how's, but instead just cuts short in an attempt to be witty and funny, ending up in an incoherent mess of bulls**t that ain't fun at all. Blushing not explained? Are you f**king kidding me? People blush as an emotional responce to something, it can be anything that gets their blood flowing from shyness to anger when blood starts pumping, visualising a physical responce to an emotion. Some people do it less or perhaps not at all, because they react less. And vice versa. You can even go read about it on freaking wikipedia. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blushing Pubic hair has no evolutionary reason? What about insolation? A big bush keeps heat in and protects against the elements ever so slightly. 10/20/2009 06:06:21 AM Oh my. Where to begin. 1. You're a total waste of flesh if you came here seeking knowledge. 2. People blush for many more reasons than emotions...try rosacea for one, or simply a "fight or flight" response 3 .If you're getting your "reliable information" from Wikipedia, a site "fact checked" by any one who wanders in and posts....well i guess there's no point in insulting that. 4. I'm not sure where you're going with the "solar radiation somehow tied to pubic hair" theory, but insolation is not a reason to grow fur on your dongly bits. It would , however, be a great excuse for say, Alaska, to grow a bush. Please people, stop acting like you're just wandering particle physicists here on a random chance. When we want REAL info, we click the red links.
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i once asked my doctor why i yawned he said............................ cos ur tired!!!
Yawning equalizes the air pressure between our inner ear and the outside air. the throat is connected to our ears by the Eustachian tube. when we get tired, we tend not to breathe as deeply as when we are wide awake, and the air pressure in our ears rises and falls, so our body makes us equalize that pressure by yawning. SCIENCE!! Have no idea why its contagious though.
Yawning equalizes the air pressure between our inner ear and the outside air. the throat is connected to our ears by the Eustachian tube. when we get tired, we tend not to breathe as deeply as when we are wide awake, and the air pressure in our ears rises and falls, so our body makes us equalize that pressure by yawning. SCIENCE!! Have no idea why its contagious though.
Noomz, it's a f**king comedy site..... what in god's name were you doing thinking this would be a legitimate discussion on biological science? while im half agreeing with you about the blushing, you're dead wrong about pubic hairs. if anything your hangman's noose doesn't need any help keeping warm at all. in fact many doctors will agree that in order to raise your sperm count and increase viritlity, one must cool their super soaker. abundant self heating can actually damage the pipework. pubes might've made sense back in the day when all cavemen wore was a loin cloth or prehistoric codpiece but evolution might've picked up on the fact that humans have invented wool dick cozies and petrolium jelly. so the need for don king testicles makes little to no sense now. ^----if all this seems in depth enough for you then, you're welcome. now shut up and let us enjoy the comedy without your down syndrome larry king interview of the lovely folks at Cracked.com. i mean seriously who cites wikipedia?
the title of the article isn't exactly correct: adolescence isn't something our bodies do "every day" (thank god).
It's a bit amusing to read this article, because it really doesn't try to look hard at anything. Nor think about different aspects of reasons and the why's and how's, but instead just cuts short in an attempt to be witty and funny, ending up in an incoherent mess of bulls**t that ain't fun at all. Blushing not explained? Are you f**king kidding me? People blush as an emotional responce to something, it can be anything that gets their blood flowing from shyness to anger when blood starts pumping, visualising a physical responce to an emotion. Some people do it less or perhaps not at all, because they react less. And vice versa. You can even go read about it on freaking wikipedia. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blushing Pubic hair has no evolutionary reason? What about insolation? A big bush keeps heat in and protects against the elements ever so slightly.
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@pelcurus: Sadly, evil ideologies, like scientology, national solialism or almost every other religion arent' recognizable by always being completely wrong. They are that successful because they mix a truth in there every now and then. That's what makes 'em really dangerous. Especially for you, if you think you'll know them by their wrong thoughts. Because that's what's making a person extra vulnerable for the next really intelligent scientologist who crosses their path. There are no evil ideas, only evil people.
@pelcurus: Sadly, evil ideologies, like scientology, national solialism or almost every other religion arent' recognizable by always being completely wrong. They are that successful because they mix a truth in there every now and then. That's what makes 'em really dangerous. Especially for you, if you think you'll know them by their wrong thoughts. Because that's what's making a person extra vulnerable for the next really intelligent scientologist who crosses their path. There are no evil ideas, only evil people.
Please don't say the placebo affect works without explanation. It suggests that the brain causes us to have all diseases and we can train ourselves to overcome them. That's what the Scientologists believe.
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Wait, the convulsions and blood shooting from my nose when I suppress a yawn aren't normal?
nvmsocool: "Yawning: Long breaths you take before sleeping kicking into effect." - What about when you yawn in the middle of the day when you're not even tired, or when someone else around you yawns? 'Dreaming: Random recompilation of thoughts in short term memory being transferred to long term memory." - Last night I had a dream about zombies. I don't recall being anywhere near any zombies in recent memory. The rest, I'll let you have because I'm too tired to spend that much time, these were just the most obviously flawed arguments.
A wizard did it you dumb f*ggots
This whole article is basically proof that evolution is a load of crap.
"just a theory"? Get back to Liberty University.
Yawning: Long breaths you take before sleeping kicking into effect. Adolescence: Not every species is born ready to get giggity giggity goo. Monkeys that developed later stayed with their mothers later, and learned the mothers tricks to survival, had babies like itself who developed later and learned of the arboreal lifestyle of the ape. Placebo: I don't know I'm not a doctor. I assume you aren't either. Dreaming: Random recompilation of thoughts in short term memory being transferred to long term memory. Blushing: When monkey A shows attention to monkeys B and C monkey B blushes slightly, giving an illusion of vitality and health, favorable traits. Monkey C didn't have enough flare and sleeps alone tonight. Pubic hair: Your guess is as good as mine we didn't really spend a lot of time on pubic hair in Bio-Anthropology.
I question why we have pubes in the first place. Also, that bastard below me should stop spamming.
I question why we have pubes in the first place. Also, that bastard below me should stop spamming.
Wasn't surprised you mentioned yawning. I still don't think I'll ever see the point to pubic hair. Aren't we technically the only mammals that have pubic hair? I personally think it was God's way of seeing who's dumb enough to have a bikini wax. Count me as one of them XP. I had no idea the placebo effect was so strong. I'm pissed now. I wanna know how much I've spend on placebos. I wanna know if my birth control completely a placebo or just that last week. Oh dear God! Thanks a lot, I'm paranoid now!
Yawning: Long breaths you take before sleeping kicking into effect. Adolescence: Not every species is born ready to get giggity giggity goo. Monkeys that developed later stayed with their mothers later, and learned the mothers tricks to survival, had babies like itself who developed later and learned of the arboreal lifestyle of the ape. Placebo: I don't know I'm not a doctor. I assume you aren't either. Dreaming: Random recompilation of thoughts in short term memory being transferred to long term memory. Blushing: When monkey A shows attention to monkeys B and C monkey B blushes slightly, giving an illusion of vitality and health, favorable traits. Monkey C didn't have enough flare and sleeps alone tonight. Pubic hair: Your guess is as good as mine we didn't really spend a lot of time on pubic hair in Bio-Anthropology.
Yawning: Long breaths you take before sleeping kicking into effect. Adolescence: Not every species is born ready to get giggity giggity goo. Monkeys that developed later stayed with their mothers later, and learned the mothers tricks to survival, had babies like itself who developed later and learned of the arboreal lifestyle of the ape. Placebo: I don't know I'm not a doctor. I assume you aren't either. Dreaming: Random recompilation of thoughts in short term memory being transferred to long term memory. Blushing: When monkey A shows attention to monkeys B and C monkey B blushes slightly, giving an illusion of vitality and health, favorable traits. Monkey C didn't have enough flare and sleeps alone tonight. Pubic hair: Your guess is as good as mine we didn't really spend a lot of time on pubic hair in Bio-Anthropology.
Yawning: Long breaths you take before sleeping kicking into effect. Adolescence: Not every species is born ready to get giggity giggity goo. Monkeys that developed later stayed with their mothers later, and learned the mothers tricks to survival, had babies like itself who developed later and learned of the arboreal lifestyle of the ape. Placebo: I don't know I'm not a doctor. I assume you aren't either. Dreaming: Random recompilation of thoughts in short term memory being transferred to long term memory. Blushing: When monkey A shows attention to monkeys B and C monkey B blushes slightly, giving an illusion of vitality and health, favorable traits. Monkey C didn't have enough flare and sleeps alone tonight. Pubic hair: Your guess is as good as mine we didn't really spend a lot of time on pubic hair in Bio-Anthropology.
No doubt nwbrnshdw is addicted to drugs... Adolescence is just increasing changes because of hormones. It just doens't happen all at once, Nature is slow. Early adolescents look more like children, then more and more like grownups. That's obvious. I am a God. Bow and worship me. NOW!
Much of the placebo effect can be contributed to stress reduction. I don't know why the author knew enough to attribute it to ending nausea, but not something like heart disease... You know stress is a factor in heart disease, right? Of course, it's different from actually "curing" the heart disease. A placebo can end your stomachache, but can't end a disease, just make the symptoms lessen for awhile. Also, the placebo effect isn't becoming more common... People who think they have depression is becoming more common. Yeah, depression is a real disease and people have it, but now every a*****e who's been bummed for awhile is running for a miracle "happy pill". All they need is a placebo.
recently placebos have been shown not to work all the time. in a study somewhere (cant be bothered to find the link, but it was on new scientist), they gave people a drug that neutralises the effect of painkillers and then gave them a placebo, and it didnt work.
Yawning: Long breaths you take before sleeping kicking into effect. Adolescence: Not every species is born ready to get giggity giggity goo. Monkeys that developed later stayed with their mothers later, and learned the mothers tricks to survival, had babies like itself who developed later and learned of the arboreal lifestyle of the ape. Placebo: I don't know I'm not a doctor. I assume you aren't either. Dreaming: Random recompilation of thoughts in short term memory being transferred to long term memory. Blushing: When monkey A shows attention to monkeys B and C monkey B blushes slightly, giving an illusion of vitality and health, favorable traits. Monkey C didn't have enough flare and sleeps alone tonight. Pubic hair: Your guess is as good as mine we didn't really spend a lot of time on pubic hair in Bio-Anthropology.
The mystery of yawning reminds me of some stuff I learned in highschool science about comparing human & animal behavior. 1)When people are talking to you, they want you to look at them & yawning signifies that you are bored with them, but making direct eye contact with cats is concidered a threat, so when they want to show a lack of agression, they yawn on purpose & then look away. 2)Humans like to flash their white teeth at eachohter. Showing your pearly whites at a chimp is the same as flipping him the bird & telling him to f**k off.
@HelloImNotHome: Yeah, except evolution doesn't work that way. If you cut off your pinky, then have a son and cut off his pinky, then he has a son and cuts off his pinky, and so forth, that still won't make your great-great-great-great-etc-grandchildren to be born without pinkies. Or to put it another way, the fact that you shave every day of your life doesn't make your beard stop growing, much less your son's.
Pubic hair's easy. It's a natural anti-friction medium, which is why it isn't scaled like regular hair but is smooth and waxen. If you don't believe me, ignore the lore about end zone trimming mistakes, and go to town on ole Joe Brown and the twins. You'll regret it the rest of your days... A better mens' example is the pee shakes. Seriously, it has never been conclusively determined why we often shiver after urinating, because ambient temperature doesn't seem to be a variable.
Dude, Desmond Morris covered two of these ten years ago on his "Human Animal" show. YAWNING is, like smiling, a defensive gesture. Another animal shows its teeth and you follow suit to show that you've got a set to match. BLUSHING has to do with sex. Much the way a baboon's ass get swollen when she's in heat, a woman flushes when she's aroused. Incidentally, that's also why women wear lipstick... it sends a signal to men that they are aroused.
Why you gotta show the afro and associate it with pubic hairs, Cracked? That seems a little offensive...then again, this nappy girl is always laughing through this site, so okay I guess.
Why you gotta show the afro and associate it with pubic hairs, Cracked? That seems a little offensive...then again, this nappy girl is always laughing through this site, so okay I guess.
"Some argue it developed as a sexual ornament for attracting mates, like a sad, kind of gross equivalent of a peac**k displaying its tail." heh, good line.
I think when man invented fire, he had not quite invented clothes yet.... since he was already covered with hair what would the point be? So as all the cave people huddled around a fire to keep warm during the ice age or winter or what ever... the kept their face away from alot of the heat and obviously the important bits would have been covered with their hands...after Milena of singeing off the rest of their body hair, it just stopped growing back... untill a later time when things warmed up a but and we started wearing clothes around the fire... then slowly the body hair started growing back slightly.... Seems likely to me.... i know if i didn't have any cloths on and all i had to keep warm was a fire i sure would cover my crotch to protect it from any stray amber's....
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i agree the comment section does have more information than the article
Yet more proof that we humans are f**ked up. Biologically even. Thank you, Cracked.
Hey, my daughters grabbed right on... but, apparently social services doesn't think it's appropriate. Shame...it was nice having kids before they were taken away. :-)
This article did kinda suck, I agree. I want funny, when I come to this site. I will say, however, like others that I found the comments section more informative, albeit heresay. The point to it all is that it's like space, we don't know for sure all the reasons. Sure, we dream because the brain has to remain active, but that doesn't explain why we DON'T dream, y'know? Anyways, dreams are the only one Im interested in anyways. I'm writing a book, that will never see the light of day I'm sure, about controlling dreams and having an avatar in unreality, so to speak. What I'm interested in is the content. Why do we dream the things we dream about? I have found that SOMETIMES, a random thought, something very abnormal to my everyday life, is what usually shows up in "the dreamscape". It would be so cool to truly be able to choose...i know we've all had those dreams where we are convinced it is real, and seems like days have passed, only to get that super relieved feeling when you wake up, when you realize you do not have to deal with the aftermath. Dreaming and sleepwalking, crazy stuff when combined. For that matter, wet dreams!! So real and involved that a man can get off without any touch, purely mindfookin!! Who cares why we blush; to harness dreams...if only!
I thought most (well, a large amount) of scientists thought dreams were our brains reorganizing information, forming new thought connections to better store data, almost like defragging a hard drive. Isn't that why if you read/watch/etc. something right before sleeping, you usually dream about it? And also why you can form new approaches to difficult problems while sleeping? That's what I always thought anyway.
I LOL'd at "Calm down, it was an afro"
Adolescence is difficult to the degree that a society make the transition to adulthood difficult (or at least more trying than it has to be). That being said, there's now an entire industry based on feeding it, so I don't see it going away any time soon. Feeling awkward, angry, and horny? By our Crap(tm)! Our Crap(tm)! is for cool people who aren't at all like you feel. Listen to this musician then buy Crap(tm)!
I think pubic hair really is there for debris and dirt capturing. After all, every part of the body with hair either does that, or is there for moisture capture. I think dreaming is like a "screen saver" for the brain to give us something to work on while we sleep. I've actually solved logic problems in my sleep by obsessively focusing on them.
Dude, afro-guy was cute. Give us more pictures of attractive males, for gods sake!
So, I tried out the newborn thing. But I don't have any kids, so I went out and found some. Long story short, I'm going to need someone from Cracked to show up at my court session.
comment section almost more informative than the article itself ;)
The most interesting theory on why we dream I heard is that it's basically "target practice" for our visual cortex which uses up a majority of our brain power. Essentially it's just your brain throwing up random s**t for your eyes to track. When you wake up your conscious mind creates a narrative for all these random images. Of course I'd still like to know what causes this stuff: http://bit.ly/8ardc
Whitemamba has hit the nail on the head - that's one of the main reasons for yawning. I heard that one reason it sets everyone else off iss that the pressure is now different so everyone has to compensate. The fact that it doesn't have to be is psychological - we're programmed to anyway.
It is very clear that someone without any scientific background wrote this article.
the one about dreams is a lie. Its found by psychatrist and by psycoanalist that dreams are necesary because in diferrence with other organs, the brain has to work all the time. If brain isnt active it tends to atrophia. Anyways thats why dreams are for, because brain has to be always active.
yawning and moving you jaw can help you equalize the air space in your ears and sinus cavity, so that the pressure is the same inside and outside your head. This is really useful when flying in an airplane or scuba diving. just a thought
It should be stated as well, that Margaret Mead showed that adolescence itself is a cultural phenomenon. Different cultures treat adolescence differently, and their children experience that transition differently. In Samoa, as Mead showed, the transition was smooth, and without the turbulence that American adolescents go through. Everything depends on who and what are the actors and which networks they inhabit. Looking at anything like there is only one way it can exist is folly and shortsighted. Primer: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coming_of_Age_in_Samoa
Okay, about half of those are things that the body actually does every day. One of them isn't even an action. Pubic hair is a noun, not a verb.
This article blows.
I'm not sure about 3 and 5. We know a lot about REM sleep right now. Clearly its what makes us feel rested, establishes neural connections, and helps consolidate and prioritize important information. What exactly is going on is still somewhat unknown but neuroscience is still a growing field. And about adolescence, that whole section is somewhat of an oversimplification. First of all a man's sexual prime is in the early 20s, not as soon as you hit 14. Another thing is that even if adolescents were not awkward and covered in acne, they still wouldn't be particularly attractive to women because women are in general attracted to somewhat older, assertive, well-informed men with experience because those qualities make them good providers. A suave well-built 14yo is still basically a dumbass with little knowledge of the real world and thus would make a terrible provider. After all when women derisively call a man a boy, its implying that he is inexperienced and foolish, not that hes covered in acne.
You are wrong on blushing. You blush when you are confronted, and your heart rate goes up. This is due to certain hormones (adrenaline and such) released into your bloodstream. The reason for that is to get you ready to RUN AWAY from the harmful/unpleasant situation.
Of course there's no search of the actual research literature. And the article completely f**ks up the meaning of the placebo, which could include simple effects and biases such as patients taking better care of themselves while under observation.
Must argue: I am a chick. I bone my boyfriend regularly. He has the periodic table memorized and owns all of Battle Star Galactica AND the Star Trek OS... and I find this a major turn on.
bibliophilica, hiccups are spasms in the diaphram, the muscle that make you breath. pointless, but theres your explination.
hiccups are when you get air caught in your esophagus
what, hiccups didn't make the list? i have yet to see any scientific explanation for those.
TroyAlec- It hasn't been proven at all that DMT is responsible for dreaming, just theorized.
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I think Tigger nailed it. So to speak.
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Tybalt, you're the idiot. Sweating isn't the only mechanism we have to lose heat. When our body temperature rises the blood vessels in our skin dilate. This allows more blood to cool as it moves through the skin, where the temperature is much cooler than in the body core, especially if you've been sweating. This can cause people to get red faces when they've been exercising alot and their body temperature has risen.
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Well, Cracked, I decided to go ahead and test the baby-grabbing-pubes theory. I'm currently writing this from an FBI Holding Cell.
I think blushing probably actually evolved as a -false- tell. It doesn't matter what it involuntarily gives away over trivial bulls**t, but when s**t gets serious it makes it easier to lie when others are looking for that blush tell.
Yawning= syncing of individuals to sleep at once, the yawn is seen by complex mirror neurons which later trigger same responce from others in area. Was useful when animals would hunt together to commonly sync internal clocks. Dreaming=consolidation of memory, this will not be disputed by many scientists. Google: dream consolidation and get a ton of literature placebo effect: can be explained by neuroscience. It is similar to the effects of alcohol withdrawal where your body is compensating what it will believe will come and this conscious realization leads to regulation Blushing=blood vessels in face are very superficial and therefore sympathetic response leads to dilation and visibility Pubic hair-Not my field, but i'm guessing evolutionary remnant when we had more chances of catching our dick in a tree than getting clap
I actually did yawn after I read the word "yawn"...
You know, looking at most of the dreams my friends and I usually have, I'd say the average girl dreams about tits and being batman as well.
It is a fact that we dream due to a chemical which comes from the pineal gland in the brain called Dimethyltryptamine (DMT). It makes you see weird ass stuff that doesn't actually mean anything, it's just random s**t. DMT is the most powerful hallucinogen in the world and can actually be purchased and used. DMT is found in the brains of all mammals, reptiles, and most plants, which would explain why dogs dream as well. It is also released by your brain right before you die, resulting in stories about seeing heaven or hell from people who have had near death experiences.
It is a fact that we dream due to a chemical which comes from the pineal gland in the brain called Dimethyltryptamine (DMT). It makes you see weird ass stuff that doesn't actually mean anything, it's just random s**t. DMT is the most powerful hallucinogen in the world and can actually be purchased and used. DMT is found in the brains of all mammals, reptiles, and most plants, which would explain why dogs dream as well. It is also released by your brain right before you die, resulting in stories about seeing heaven or hell from people who have had near death experiences.
makes sense Tigger
actually, regarding the pubic hair one, j*pan hates pubic hair, they just can't be bothered to convince their live action porn actors and actresses to shave, that's why they gotta draw the stuff they jerk off to.
I have a theory on adolescence, feel free to disprove, Although I think this is hardly the forum for it, But I digress none the less , As a species that is directly related to apes and hence have similar community mating habits, If a male/female was viewed to be a threat to the dominate male/silver back too early on in the maturation process, then the dominant male could effectively prune the lineage and leave only weaker or less attractive individuals and therefore ensure his reign and premiere pick of the breeding stock. Adolescence in effect serves as an active camouflage to mask desirable traits from any potential threats until the individual has grown large/strong enough to defend or challenge the dominant male and usurp the throne as it were. The model is still somewhat effective today, as it does allow for some degree of physical/social maturation so that the individual can up the ante and select a more suitable mate.
Ive always thought yawning was just the same as any other involuntary stretch' just strething the muscles of the throat and lungs, not sure why its contagious though
I would like to report on the baby-handle theory. It is false. The infant grabbed hold of the bush alright, but as I crossed the finish line of the marathon I was surprised by the distinct lack of hanging infant.
Another theory on the physiological nature of yawning: Some researchers say it is due to a decreased oxygen level in the surrounding atmosphere. The problem with this theory is why people get contagious yawns over the telephone?
Luonnos is right, blushing is pretty much explained by the fight or flight response. Also, this article wasn't funny and was poorly written, as well as ridiculously ignorant.
Ryzhaya: Derrida does rule, Lacan just rules....a bit less. But then again, how could you know that Lacan is buIIs**t when you even say you skip that section....sounds like you`re the kinda douche that has an opinion on the very subjects he knows nothing about. But you don`t sound like some mindless positivist, I mean you like Derrida, so that must count for something...Anyway, I insist, put your prejudices aside (Lacan`s prose can be vomit inducing). and you`ll probably be surprised.
Luonos, your biology teacher is either an idiot or a liar. Anger doesn't make you hotter. The only way you would gain body heat is by taking the fight or flight approach, and as for making your cheeks red? Well, that's not exactly going to dissipate heat, is it? See, we have this thing called sweating that dissipates heat, and I don't see how the changing of the colour of your face is supposed to do that. I believe the macaque monkey can change colour based on it being an alpha male or not. If it's not the macaque, then it's another type of monkey. Anyway, blushing is most likely a physical response that developed before language that's use isn't needed anymore.
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It is a fact that we dream due to a chemical which comes from the pineal gland in the brain called Dimethyltryptamine (DMT). It makes you see weird ass stuff that doesn't actually mean anything, it's just random s**t. DMT is the most powerful hallucinogen in the world and can actually be purchased and used. DMT is found in the brains of all mammals, reptiles, and most plants, which would explain why dogs dream as well. It is also released by your brain right before you die, resulting in stories about seeing heaven or hell from people who have had near death experiences.
I would like to report that the theory stating that pubes can be used as something for babies to hold on to is a success. As I type this message an infant is hanging from the pubes on my ball sack. Thx Cracked!
If there was a bullhorn at one end of a mountian range facing you, and you yelled towards it, would the echo be louder than your voice?
You know, looking at most of the dreams my friends and I usually have, I'd say the average girl dreams about tits and being batman as well.
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My dog always has nightmares, which makes me wonder if she actually understands that they're not real. I doubt they're very complicated but how would a dog know? If a lion dreams that it was getting beat up, does it go nuts on the other lions when it wakes up?
I have a theory on adolescence, feel free to disprove, Although I think this is hardly the forum for it, But I digress none the less , As a species that is directly related to apes and hence have similar community mating habits, If a male/female was viewed to be a threat to the dominate male/silver back too early on in the maturation process, then the dominant male could effectively prune the lineage and leave only weaker or less attractive individuals and therefore ensure his reign and premiere pick of the breeding stock. Adolescence in effect serves as an active camouflage to mask desirable traits from any potential threats until the individual has grown large/strong enough to defend or challenge the dominant male and usurp the throne as it were. The model is still somewhat effective today, as it does allow for some degree of physical/social maturation so that the individual can up the ante and select a more suitable mate.
Another theory on the physiological nature of yawning: Some researchers say it is due to a decreased oxygen level in the surrounding atmosphere. The problem with this theory is why people get contagious yawns over the telephone?
WitchAnarchne's comment makes some sence to me
I have a theory on adolescence, feel free to disprove, Although I think this is hardly the forum for it, But I digress none the less , As a species that is directly related to apes and hence have similar community mating habits, If a male/female was viewed to be a threat to the dominate male/silver back too early on in the maturation process, then the dominant male could effectively prune the lineage and leave only weaker or less attractive individuals and therefore ensure his reign and premiere pick of the breeding stock. Adolescence in effect serves as an active camouflage to mask desirable traits from any potential threats until the individual has grown large/strong enough to defend or challenge the dominant male and usurp the throne as it were. The model is still somewhat effective today, as it does allow for some degree of physical/social maturation so that the individual can up the ante and select a more suitable mate.
i could barely stop laughing enough after the picture for pubic hair to keep reading the article lmao
Ow....ow ow , ow, ow, ow.....
I've read that pubic hair is a sign of readiness for mating. We only get it once we've started puberty so it's a clear sign that we're old enough to reproduce.
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My friends recommended me a very interesting place __AgelessFriends.com__ It's a nice and free place for Younger Women and Older Men, or Older Women and Younger Men, to interact with each other. Age gap is not a problem there. You may wanna check it out and tell your friends.
Not quite sure how scientifically accepted this is, but my biology teacher explained that blushing was a physiological response to a perceived attack. When someone embarrasses us, we see it as a threat and go into the fight or flight response. Once we realize they aren't threating us physically, we need to dissipate the heat that we just worked up to fight them with. This is done through the blood vessels, especially near the face.
I agree with Administrator. There is a substance known as DMT (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dimethyltryptamine) which basically is said to be the stuff you produce during REM sleep (when you dream). It is also found in some plants, and is reffered to as the most powerful hallucinogen known to man. I.E you flip your s**t when you take it. Imagine 1000x Salvia Divinorum. Probably something like that. Our bodies produce tiny quantities of DMT. If the above theory is true, then basically a dream is you trippng out.. Since dreams are mostly random, crazy s**t you neither want to happen,can't happen, or would never think about, (which describes all LSD and salvia trips) then I'd say it's pretty safe to assume dreams are chemically enduced.
Oh, my. PissMaster, you win more than 2 and a half internets. You win 6 internets. In fact, you might just be the king the internet, at least 'til the next king takes your throne in about 3-14 minutes or so.
Maybe dreaming is caused by your brain producing hallucinogens. If that's true then I shotgun the pharmaceutical name "Dreamine"
I agree with PissMaster. Fraternities are the gayest thing since jizzed bread.
dreams are caused by the pinneal gland. its a pinecone shaped gland that releases the most intense hallucinagenic substance ever recorded, DMT. come on cracked, in your reign of hypocriticaly written articles you mentioned dmt several times. you're good for researching some subjects that i never would have found anywhere else though.
Thank You too Kindahuge. I hope I gave ya'll a little insight into the world of testosterone-fueled pissing sex for the day.
Another theory about yawning: Notice how you don't just yawn when you're tired, but also when you wake up, after you first start exercising, when you sit down before class, etc? Some researchers have come to think that you yawn when you are making a "state change" from active to less active states, or vice versa. Making a show of yawning would have evolved to promote group cohesiveness by encouraging state changes together, or by making a show of changing states together to make you feel more like you're part of the group. As far as dreaming goes, it isn't entirely clear why we even need to SLEEP, so discussing the importance of dreaming is kind of superfluous in that light.
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PissMaster wins the day, Toad loses. Just the facts, don't get mad at me Toad.
PissMaster wins the day, Toad loses. Just the facts, don't get mad at me Toad.
Omg, i'm picturing it. XD I'm laughing and gagging at the same time = EPIC WIN!
Toad- I'm a little confused by today's standards of what makes someone a q***r. Back in the day, it was a little more cut and dry. You either liked John Wayne or you don't. Now you have the MTV and whatnot, turning kids into bi-curious wimps at an exponential rate that all of these youngsters are starting to look like b***hes to me. Wearing pink polo shirts and blasting Beyonce's greatest hits from their yellow H3 Hummer, putting more time in front of the mirror than a woman. It's hard to tell nowadays unless you see them finger-banging their female cousins and going to sucky-f**ky message parlors with their Chuck E. Cheese money. As for my college misadventures, I think I speak for the rest of us when I say that fraternity guys are one orgasm away from becoming full-fledged c**k swallowers if it means being the member of something special. In order to belong, you must accept the fact that every dude has a little f*ggot in him, and the initiation process is to purge the gay out of you before you move on to classic male past-times such as Guys Night Out, spending all day with the NFL Sunday Ticket and ignoring your responsibilities to your wife and kids, and tons of threesomes with a buddy and a she-male prostitute from the Philippines. I also believe that strapping on a dildo over your own c**k and f**king your straight friends in their ass doesn't count as gay, because the there is no skin-on-skin contact, and both of you are married to chicks. Just a couple of wealthy businessmen making out in sleazy motel room and blowing off some steam, like all guys do in Las Vegas after a lot of cocaine and liquor. Plus, it doesn't count if you blacked out and recorded the whole thing on your Blackberry.
So maybe dreams are a method of keeping people asleep longer. Your brain cooks up a bunch of hallucinogens and lets them free, and you're sitting there paralyzed and dreaming while your body performs repairs on itself.
the afro kid's picture in the end made me laugh sooo hardd (puns intended)
PissMaster: Your comments made me laugh so f**king hard I almost had an asthma attack. And I don't even have asthma. You win 2 and a half internets and an imaginary cookie.
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i tested the infant evolutionary pube grabbing theory and yes, they all grabbed towards my crotch. i dont have a kid of my own though so i just hung around the nursery.
PissMaster, you post about fraternities made me vomit. And your last post wasn't insightful or funny.
Hee, yeah WetKant, you're right, I always kind of skim the reading in that section of my Lit Theory classes cause I think Lacan is bulls**t. But I am overjoyed that someone wants to get into a comment section flame war over psychoanalysis and critical theory! DERRIDA RULES, LACAN DROOLS, SUCKA!!!
Whoa PissMaster, sorry you didn't get a bid to the fraternity you wanted to join so badly but there's no call for that c*m-laden novella you wrote. I haven't seen that much senseless sodomy (not that sodomy is ever sensible) since I walked in on DOB and Bucholz giving each other Cleveland Steamers. It's okay, try again next semester. Maybe they just didn't get enough time to know you. Or maybe they were a little disturbed by how breezily you speak of urinating and sticking tableware in anuses..anus..s..ani? I'm sure that there was some feud between you and someone else about frats or hazing or how to control your bi-curiosity earlier down the comment board but I'm still trying to get the taste of retarded out of my mouth from your last post so I'll just be blissfully ignorant.
I'm not entirely sure, but I think that Five and Four are cultural and psychological rather than biological. They resulted from human sapience, and don't necessarily have rational biological functions.
You should read "The Case Against Adolescence" by Robert Epstein. It's very interesting. It's about how adolescence isn't natural. It's something society recently started putting onto teenagers to try to make them be children longer.
My boyfriend has an interesting dream talent, he can wake up and go back to sleep and continue whatever he was dreaming about. Like a TV show. I woke him up this morning and he was like "Lemme sleep a little more, it was a murder mystery and I have to find out who it was!" So in a half hour I woke him again and he said "Well we were interviewing some suspects, but then we called a wizard and summoned a crab, I think it got mixed in with Harry Potter." lol
Let me pick a celebrity with a big bush and make a joke about it. Uhmmm.... Lemme see... A-HAH! Meg Ryan p***y is so hairy that.... nah, that's not gonna work. How about Harvey Keitel..... Nah! Well, there's always Juliette Lewis in that cowboy flick about the hallucinogens. But her bush was really a wig or a merkin of some sort, so it doesn't count. I got one. Madonna's muff is so hairy, it takes a team of hoodrats just to braid her hair. When she wears panty hose, it looks like Joaquin Phoenix robbing a liquor store. It looks like she has Fidel Castro in a head lock.
I buy into the theory that pubes are for replacing lost hair. Seriously, bald guys have more pubes. It's a FACT.
Another thing I'm told scientists really can't explain is laughter. Why we do it, and how the body determines what we as individuals find funny. Not sure if there's a humorous way to write an article on that, though.
but if babies really held onto pubes, wouldn't they be gone by now? and i thought cavemen had loin cloths anyway.
TheShat- I think you have your gay standards all wrong, buddy. Obviously, you never went to college and joined a Fraternity. According to the Encyclopedia of Male Fraternity Pledges; spitting, c*mming, and urinating in each other's asses doesn't count as gay. Neither does simultaneously jerking off 2 dudes as long as you wear latex gloves and none of the c*m touches your skin, but it's okay if it lands on your penis for some reason. My fraternity brothers also said it's not gay if you all have a circle jerk while watching Vin Diesel movies, since he always nails a chick in each one. Everyone beat off into a bag of Ruffles, then they tie up the naked new guy and force him to eat the sperm off the potato chips while they take turns manhandling his nutsack. Then they try to see how much plastic silverware they can shove up his anus while he does a keg stand, and we all spend the next few months eating TV dinners with those same spoons, forks, and knives until they run out. It kind of sucks until the next rookie steps up to the plate, then we squeeze his balls and sodomize him with the new utensils. I'm telling ya, it's not at all gay to use a public shower and fist-f**k the man next to you. I hear it happens in every prison, every jail, even the drunk tank at the local police station dudes are getting reamed. And the cops just sit there and watch while they rub some vaseline on their billy club and eventually get in on the action. The only thing gay about the stuff I just mentioned is when someone reads it, or reads anything for that matter. Reading and learning stuff is for FAGS!!! But College fraternities shape you into the manly men who go off to become multi-millionares and the CEO's of major corporations. You can't go wrong with fist-f**king.
The placebo effect will get stronger because of all the hypochondriacs nowadays. 50 years ago how many people went to the doctor for a cold. How many people used to take days off for stress? It's all attention seeking.
Ryzhaya, you think "The Gaze" is an important lacanian concept? that`s the kinda notion only usamerican film students know, not a very important one. But you wouldn`t know that. So go read a book, a*****e.
Phenomenons? Really? Who wrote this, mans or mouses?
The thing about dreams is that they only use what you have seen before. If you have never in your life seen a certain person, how can you dream him or her? And, dreams are influenced by outside stuff- have you ever dreamt that a fire drill is happening and its only your alarm clock?
@plessis204 yeah good point buuuut, when you repress a yawn (a natural one) you dont get breathless (as the article says). also wouldnt a normal intake of breath fufil the same function? what i want to know is why your eustatian tubes expand during a yawn.
I did it!!!! It works!!! unfortunately I don't have a baby so I stole my neighbors, but it still works.
rofl thx for the band name lol i loved this article
yeah, well, i just wanted to elaborate on the bush thing: doesn't work. my 3 year old is presently running around the house laughing and rejoycing with a fistfull of pubic hair, which he proudly shows to everyone he encounters. i tried to take it from him, but instead he ripped another fistfull right off. now i'm just aplying ice and talc*m powder to my crotch hoping he'll fall sleep in a few hours and forget everything. oh s**t! he's gonna dream about it!!
plessis204: I think you might have your medical terms mixed up. I'm no doc, but isn't the pleura (pleural cavity, whatever) just the sac your lungs are in? I thought it was the alveoli that filled with air. Also, PissMaster, say what you will about piss fetishes, but pretty much any guy presented with a scenario where a guy is having his face ejaculated on would respond with, "That's pretty f**kin' gay, dude." Very few males would consider that not gay.
rofl thx for the band name lol i loved this article
"As for the bush, it servers as a cushion for the ïmpact caused by sex. No mystery there. " Jesus Christ, silverpills, how rought do you like it?
OH GOD WHY WON'T THEY LET GO AND WHOSE BABIES ARE THESE ANYWAY
One widely accepted reason for pubic hair is the same as why we have facial and body hair, as well as prominent breasts that don't appear until puberty. They are called secondary sexual characteristics. They serve the purpose of letting other people know when you have become fertile. I think that might have been what you were referencing when you mentioned the peac**k feathers, but you missed the mark. It's pretty much been proven, and the fact that all of those characteristics develop when a person becomes sexually viable is kind of hard to pass off as just a coincidence. On a related note, most of the issues stemming with puberty are the result of hormonal changes that the endocrine system unleashes on you in the process of becoming fertile.
When you yawn, you strech your face muscles. That will have two effects, one it will stimulate your lacrimal glands, relaxing your eyes and the other just relax yor face altogether. As for the bush, it servers as a cushion for the ïmpact caused by sex. No mystery there.
I wonder if science can explain what would possess a perfectly normal human being to become an extremist piss drinker such as myself. I started off as a promising kid from a loving, educated, upper middle class family, raised in the suburbs of Long Island. There was never a lack of anything in our household, and my mother and father were the greatest parents any kid can hope for, generous and proud hard-working americans who just wanted their children to have the best this country can offer. And they gave it in spades, both to their sons and to various charity groups. Then I went to Yale on a scholarship and all hell broke loose. I joined up with the Skull & Bones fraternity and we engaged in tons of h**oerotic piss-drinking antics that resulted in my ungodly fetish. I mean, its not gay as long as dick aren't touching, right? Allowing your fraternity brothers to piss into your open mouth is something every college kid goes through. Afterall, this was the same illustrious club that housed 3 generations of the rotten Bush family at one point or another. I'm sure they had to lay in an open casket while other members pissed and ejaculated all over them too. How's that for success stories, Two of them became Presidents and one of them sponsored Hitler and the Third Reich. I made $200K from panhandling this year. Drink some piss.
Hey, whites arent the only humans that blush. The asians do too
Haha, good article, really loved the pics.
yawning is the intake of air to stretch out your lungs. The lungs are filled with little sacs called pleura, and when you get tired your pleura will collapse on themselves like little suction cups. filling up with air, similar to a balloon, stretches the lungs and pleura out to maximize air intake. It's an involuntary reaction to being tired.
WetKant: No, it's just that Lacanian psychologists aren't cool. Oooo, "the Gaze" . . . losers.
Another theory regarding blushing, which I think seems pretty reasonable, explains blushing as a way of telling that members of a group are being genuine. If you can tell when someone is lying, it makes them more trustworthy and more likely to stay in a tribe or make the sorts of pack relationships necessary for survival. In contrast, not blushing, or being very good at lying, is only valuable or advantageous for someone in a group or context where veracity is expected to be coupled with some type of signal or giveaway.
"none of the cool psychologists still follow Freud these days" Really? Clearly Nathan Birch hasn`t heard of Lacanian psychoanalysis
I think this article was great. I especially liked the text under the pictures. Also, it is true: I've been studying Psychology for htree years now and whenever someone asks me something I don't know, I make s**t up from the top of my head. And yeah, Freud is wayyy uncool nowadays.
Chix_Digg, it's a humor website, meaning it was a joke. Maybe you should consider, you know, taking it as such instead of flipping the f**k out in the comments section. The article was pretty good, and informative at the same time, though I don't think I'm going to try that suggestion at the end...
My theory about the placebo effect is that we are slowly developing into a super-race with the ability to heal ourselves using just our minds. Hopefully it will be followed by the ability to explode things using the same methods. This astounding mental progress is also noticeable through the massive popularity of Twilight, the Jonas Brothers, and Glenn Beck.
"Think of pubes as a 'stache for your dong." Hahaha. That's an awesome theory. Nice one Caulker!
There's a dude in my school who's face is constantly red. I fell on top of him in a Gaelic football match and the teacher's thought that circulation had been cut off to his face. People have even written a son about him beginning with "Kevin, the red-faced student".
My apologies: Ignorant*
I was so inspired by this article that I finally registered after about a year of lurking. Firstly, this article was a tremendous let-down in the humour department. One wonders if Mr. Birch realizes that this is a humour website. Secondly, way to indirectly equate the body hair of an oft-maligned group of humans with something that most people consider disgusting. Silly ignornant a*****e.
Yes, my body is unbelievalby fascinating and so on and so forth.
Seriously, people are grossed out by a girl shaving her pubes? This is totally the opposite from what I expected - rather that half the comment-section would be fawning over her with a few people screaming for pics. Personally I'd be more grossed out if she described why Signe would NOT shave and left her curly's dangling in the wind. As an FYI, I shave everything below and clip everything above the privates. I would also like to add that I have evolved beyond blushing and it's no longer visible on my face. My cheeks are always red, naturally. They merely turn purple when I've been out in the sun too long...
my eyes water ev everytime i yawn, this is awful during assembly-time as they're always talking out dying children or some bullys**t, sooo i yawn and people think im getting emotional when my eyes water from it o_0
my eyes water when i yawn. i asked the optometrist about it and he mumbled something about that being normal. LIAR.
What about the pee shivers? Anyone?
I'm never going to try that last one again, that's for sure
Yep, I yawned halfway through the first paragraph. Shit, I just yawned again. Bizarre.
I bet Signe won the comment for this. I can see Cracked's response in the round-up now... "That's because your body is f**ked up, Signe, and you are an abomination against nature" Oh, like the Cracked Staff WOULDN'T do that!
Crazy Pube Theory: Maybe they're there to prove sexual maturity... not being attracted to pubes is from our culture (read: pedophilia). Think of pubes as a 'stache for your dong.
HA! Sheepe2004, I salute you, sir. Also yes, mothermagna, yawning is awesome
Other weird things about my body at least... Sometimes when I really have to pee my gums itch. And when I was a child, everytime I cried, I got nosebleed. Yes, the tears before the blood.
On dreams: http://d1002391.mydomainwebhost.com/JOT/Articles/6-6/Zhang.pdf
my nose runs when i yawn. every single time.
I know that singers tend to yawn as they warm up. By raising the soft pallet, you can reach higher pitches more comfortably. Also, has anyone thought that maybe we yawn because it feels good? Does anyone not like yawning?
thought: maybe there is no placebo effect. maybe sugar pills are just badass cure-alls.
Tried the last one, but the kids were too smart.
There's another item for this list that I'm surprised nobody at Cracked thought of: breasts. The real mystery is nulliparous breasts, to use the scientific term. In most animals breasts don't develop until maternity, and often go away after their offspring are weaned. (The tissue is there, but the fat that gives them shape isn't.) In humans they develop with the onset of sexual maturity, so women have fully-developed breasts even if they've never been pregnant.
@Silk_sik Well just briefly, males have nipples because believe it all not every fetus was a female for around the first 2 weeks of conception. The nipples remain as a sign of that even after the sex chromosomes kick in to determine the gender. This is just the gist of it so perhaps, if you're interested, you can ask your biology teacher about it.
The article about a link between geomagnetic activity and dreams was published at 00:01 on the 1st of April.
I must admit that the other week I did actually have a dream inspired by a Cracked Article. It was that one about the time travel machine, written by Brockway, but in my dream, the time machine was a sowing machine, and me and my friend had used it to travel about 20 miles, and without moving to a different time.
You forgot male nipples.
Afro = pubes? Guess with photoshop you can make anything look like anything.
Holy s**t, its true, i yawned after reading and seeing pictures of others yawning.
some attribute the placebo effect to the fact that our brains are themselves little drug factories. In principle the reason and real drug works is because our cells have a receptor for that drug, and the cells have evolved that receptor because the brain itself is capable of producing that chemical stimulant (or a similar one with the same effect). So a placebo works by stimulating the brain to produce its own drugs. The only problem is that the effect dies off earlier than with real drugs (this has been shown in studies where the placebo is actually MORE effective than the real drug at first, but it loses action faster than the real drug). Imagine the potential we have, right there in our own brains, its like a little pharmacy!
Man that's no fair! I have to stop shaving to try the last one.
Someone's probably already mentioned it, but...Japan has an even bigger problem with pubic hair than most of the world. At least, judging by a lot of their porn.
Male nipples and male pubic hair exist because it makes sense for women to have them- they still exist because it's not a detriment to survival for a man to have them- thus they were never selected out. One must keep in mind that both male and female are made from the same genetic blueprints, and are differentiated rather late in the developmental process. Because it is so important for women to have pubic hair (regardless of what is in fashion today- the hair does help to keep out debris and dirt- like eye-lashes) and nipples, everyone gets them.
I'd suspect the contagious yawn is a psychosomatic thing with humans, but that doesn't explain the dogs. Fun things to do in traffic: When you're stopped at a red light with cars behind you, crack your neck. If you watch in the mirror you can see the neck-cracking domino effect go all the way down the line.
I don't know about other people, since I haven't asked, but when I'm running long distance or doing any aerobic I start yawning. That also may be true of other people, though I don't think that's a strong enough fact to support the oxygen over the brain theory or vica versa.
what if its all connected somehow.... like some big human conspiracy.... or were robots in some big experiment done by a race of aliens, to understand how not understanding the seemingly understandable manifests itself on the internets.
what if its all connected somehow.... like some big human conspiracy.... or were robots in some big experiment done by a race of aliens, to understand how not understanding the seemingly understandable manifests itself on the internets.
Yet another pubic hair theory (read: a wild-ass guess). Perhaps it's sort of like armpit hair in that it reduces friction.
what if its all connected somehow.... like some big human conspiracy.... or were robots in some big experiment done by a race of aliens, to understand how not understanding the seemingly understandable manifests itself on the internets.
Well I tried the experiment but my baby grabbed a hold of something else. The police are at my door and social services just took my child away. Thanks a*****es.
also, i think yawning is to rush more blood to the head cuz ur always more awake after a yawn than before even if its for a second. and my eyes always water when i do it, so there is that. for instance, ive never yawned on say, cocaine, or something like that, or when ive had an erection, so clearly blood has something to do with it
Not a very good article. There were a few parts I laughed at, like the Sean Connery picture, but other than that I just read a very quickly done article. There are seriously tons of published and unpublished reports and studies done on yawning alone, including a few (not mentioned here at all) from a teamwork of pulmonologists, neurologist, and pathologists. I know another leading thought was that of carbon dioxide and other gas expulsion from the body triggered by a ion channel in the CNS. As for Placebo effect, the same is true with the studies. Really, the body can produce many enzymes and proteins to do work that drug companies produce, but because of certain mechanisms, the body takes time to create and recycle them. Some are released responses from the brain, others are direct responses from positive/negative interaction, others are from the metabolism of xenobiotics. However, many times certain proteins are mutated or not even formed because of the difference in genetics of the individual. There are many more aspects to consider when talking about this topic.
i did a test for u guys, and in fact that theory in number one is false. infants will not grab ur pubic hair to hang on, which we can only thank god for. clearly he isnt that much of a prankster, and the fact that babies dont do this really can only be taken as evidence that there is a somewhat compassionate god. and i was always under the impression that pubic hair is to keep our region there warm. cuz if the balls are too cold the sperm will die or some s**t. which would also explain the shrinkage factor, which the existence of kinda goes against what i said up there about god. so i have to re-examine my theory on god.
Wow, I guess science just cant do it all on its own! RT www.anonymous.ua.tc
I guess science cant do everything on its own now can it! Jess www.anonymous.ua.tc
I had heard that yawning was a way for hunters to regulate themselves in a group. Normal yawning occurs when we change states, from restful to awake and vice versa. So they theorized that when a group of hunters went out at sunrise, in order for the entire group to be in the same wakeful state they would yawn and having it be contagious would get everyone on the same page.
There are so many theories about the pubes and I believe they are all true.. 1) The warmth. This is the primary funktion of the pubic hair. Mankind didn't use underwear for a very long time so there needed to be some other way of heating the body before that. 2) Protection against impacts. 3) The feromones thoery is there, but I've also heard that no real proof of human feromones have yet found.. Although feromones are very common on almost all mammals (and many other animals) so that suggests that humans might have a similar system. 4) Visual indicator of sexual maturity. Back in the old days it wasn't uncommon that a 13 or 15 year-old would start having a children of their own. And pibic hair was a quite handy hint to other people that you can have babies with that person.
Damn, my baby won't let get"
im still yawning
Test 1: Child screamed and cried for next 6 hours. Chased away by parents and currently under house arrest. Text 2: Child ripped all my "curlies" off. Still in pain. Side note, anyone know where to dispose of a 6 year old body?
I saw 1 or 2 comments on dreams, and the rest on pubic hair. Notice my total lack of surprise, lol.
why? cause you couldn't understand it?
I always figured pubic hair was to trap heat. We have thick hair in the three places that release the most heat from our bodies: top of our heads, our underarms, and between our legs.
Latest hypotheses say that dreams are a simulated reality, mixing random stuff from your memories to create training environments. Some scientists theorize that we wouldn't exist now, if it weren't for nightmares. http://www.examiner.com/x-9615-LA-Dream-Interpretation-Examiner~y2009m6d1-The-role-of-dreams "human dreaming has clear cognitive and behavioral ramifications because during sleep the mind continues to work. The dreamer is sent into various types of worlds or environments in which he/she can essentially practice and develop as a social being."
I guess science just cant do it all on its own! LOL RT www.anonymous.ua.tc
This article was f**king retarded.
Oh come on gents; surely some of you shave off your curlies? I find that when my rat and it's two friends 'lefty' and 'bigger' are nekkid they stick to eachother like the Olsen Twins to a crack-cocaine clad syphillitic penis. Less chafing; that's what the hair is there for. I haven't tried this out while naked though; but I'm sure rigorous testing by the average male Cracked.com reader (i.e., the Cracked.com reader) will reveal the secret purpose of the lower neck-beard.
Thats a good point. If you shave your armpits it gets all sweaty n clammy under there. I assume its the same for shaving the crotch. Not that Ive tried, honest...
hamsterjelly: Ehm... What you said. Yeah I'm smart too.
Note- Child did not grab on, and I'm no longer permitted to baby sit for my friends.
I always kind of figured that pubes and armpit hair stuck around in because those areas are high-friction and the hair cuts down on chafing. Before t-shirts came along, your armpits didn't have anything other than hair to keep the sweaty skin from rubbing against itself. And there's no shortage of wet skin rubbing among crotches. At least not my crotch. Probably you guys don't see much of that action.
*Hint hint* If pubic hair makes sense in women and no sense in men, then it works the same way as nipples. Our Y chromosomes start working after some weeks, during our first days of development in the womb only the X chromosomes are actives.
The theory I've heard most commonly (biologist here) is that pubes and armpit hair are there to catch pheromones so that they're more concentrated in a specific area. Pheromones are more concentrated in the armpits and crotch area, so it makes sense. It may seem smelly to you, but unconsciously, your brain's going wild. It also depends on who it is you're actually smelling. If you've ever noticed that some girls and guys smell gross but others smell intoxicating, it means that the gross ones have similar immune systems to you and your body's telling you not to mate with them to make the gene pool more diverse. Psychologists today think most of Freud's s**t was bunk. But he was right on a couple things: 1) Childhood is important for psychological development. 2) Dreams can be important. 3) Sex in relationships is important. And that's about it. Seriously. But you, CRACKED, also said in another article mentioning dreams that dreams are often about what you just experienced during the day and that it's a consolidation of all your memories for that day. Stop contradicting yourself!
The evolution of adolecence is less to do with it being an evolutionary advantage and more to do with the fact that we live for like 80 years each and so we have a longer developmental period. Galapagos tortoise's live for like 100-150 years and they only reach sexual maturity at like 25 years old.
Oh god, the s**t about youtube and screaming at town hall meetings is so true. These conspiracists who are all like "Medicine and big pharma are just out to make money and they want you dead!" are so retarded. They obviously thought about that too much when they should have realized the 50-60% of things people go to see doctors for are really stupid things like indigestion, sprained ankles, colds, flus, and insomnia. You know, stuff they can't really do s**t about other than tell you to "take an antacid, stay home, drink lots of fluids, and just go to sleep" respectively.
I thought pubes were like an 'X marks the spot'. Dudes have a ring around theirs and girls have an arrow pointing down. Put that in there and buy me a car. Obviously, durr
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Goddamn, I yawned repeatedly just looking at the picture at the top of the page. I'm even yawning right now. Fuck.
Most of my dreams scare the f**k out of me so I don't know what the hell.
Man, I love grossing people out... And it's so easy! Anyone want to hear the story of my vaginal discharges during ovulation? Nah, just playing with ya :P
Regarding dreaming, I find the few dreams that I remember have to do with things that I'd thought about and experiences I've had. Sure they morph into a horrible trippy mish-mash of random imageries, but wouldn't that be simply a case of the same thought patterns we have every waking hour, without the consciousness to organise it properly? Add a sprinkle of airy-fairy imagination, and it seems pretty sensible. As for pubes, the best explanation I can come up with is that they compensate for the lack of hair elsewhere, which would normally function as a thermoregulator. Simply, a hairy animal wouldn't need to cover up its nads with hair cos it could warm it generally with the rest of its body, whereas us, with our naked bodies unable to trap any warmth, needed to evolve a more direct way to keep our organs warm, esp if you recall things like the testes need to be kept at certain temperatures.
I'm with sinshin. way tmi, signe. wow.
Shanewire: I am not into pubes I am into biology... Or something. And I'm into the lack of pubes, but only for hygiene reasons. And esthetic reasons.
Okay, show of hands: Who had to yawn when reading #6
I'm with sinshin. way tmi, signe. wow.
I don't know about other people, since I haven't asked, but when I'm running long distance or doing any aerobic I start yawning. That also may be true of other people, though I don't think that's a strong enough fact to support the oxygen over the brain theory or vica versa.
Top notch article. I imagine the placebo effect is similar to that freaky s**t where girls can convince themselves they're pregnant and get all the symptoms bar the actual infant. Like the brain going "oh s**t, dude in hte white coat said it so it must be true, better get my s**t together and help these drugs do their thang". Or something. Singe is WAY into pubes isn't she?
sinshin: You didn't hear about them, you only read about them, so it's OK.
Placebo effect is no mystery, it is telepathic healing and the only real form of "magic" that the human mind is capable of (if telekinesis was real, the world would end). If your mind gets tricked into believing something is true about its body, and it can regulate the processes of that thing, then the mind will perform the known (essential part of the placebo effect, if you don't know what the drug does beyond "cure depression" your brain won't know to regulate neurons/chemicals/etc) processes necessary to make the effect true with varying levels of success. Its getting "stronger" because humans are getting weaker and medicine isn't working as effectively for the usual sicknesses we get, and thus the placebo effect is relied on more heavily. The kicker is it is a completely subconscious ability and the moment your brain finds out the whole thing was fake, you've got a 1/10 shot that you won't immediately relapse.
Placebo effect is real, and you can even emulate it yourself. If you convince your body that, say, you were suddenly feeling cold, you can make it happen.
Oh boy, another "X things that science can't explain (but actually can, you idiot)" article.
okay, Signe. nobody, and i mean NOBODY wants to hear about your pubes. EVER.
this is such bulls**t, i think u will find trhat none of these are mysteries apart from dreaming maybe i suggest you find better s**t to copy n paste, kindly refrain from submiting anymore til u get ur s**t together
VERY good article, which I really liked reading! About pubic hair, it's interesting, people say that it's good for women to have, because it keeps your from getting yeast infections when you're wearing tight panties, but really if you wear tight panties and have pubes, the panties will just press the pubes against your genitals (yes it's very itchy and can be painful), personally I prefer wide panties or no panties for that reason. I find that my body feels much better when I shave completely down there (no need to go eww, I'm a twenty year old girl and damn you if you don't think I'm pretty) as pubic hair tends to tangle itself (you can go eww now) all inbetween the c**t, inner labia, outer labia and hymen, which itches and hurts a whole lot! Supposedly though: Pubic hair is kinda like eyelashes or eyebrows or ear hair or nosehair, an ever-so-slight protection if someone would start throwing huge amounts of sand on you while you're naked... Or something like that. Sure, you would get lots in your eyes and in your c****r, but a FEW grains of sand might stick in your lashes and pubes so you can just brush them off! Personally, I vote for shaving it all off so we don't have to see those long curly pubic hairs laying in our undies!
My kid grabs on to my armpit hair, does that count?
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There is also the theory that pubic hair was used as a indicator of sexual maturity as well as protection against friction during mating. That still doesn't explain why people have pubes and chimps don't.
I don't know about all races, but Native Americans, Hispanics, and blacks all blush. What can I say, work is fun
Will I hell let a wean grab me by the curly wurlys.
Only pathetic metrosexuals fear pubic hair. Also, why do we have hairy armpits?
i agree with deathbunny. that was a mean way to end the article
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