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High school is done… now what?
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Millions of new high school graduates will soon be heading to college. Here are five tips for the summer ahead. Cue the Pomp and Circumstance.For most high school seniors, it's that time of year – the time when funny hats are thrown into the air to signal the end of sheltered bubbles and parental control, and the beginning of the path to expanded horizons. But if you were like me, the standard graduation song that everyone hears takes a back seat to your soon-to-be fight song that makes you distinct. Before you can step foot onto the college campus of your choice, however, you must spend three months in educational limbo. Sure, you'll be working, possibly taking a summer class or two and enjoying your weekends (be careful, kids), but through ...
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bio_man |
6 years ago |
Why do humans have chins?
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What sets Homo sapiens apart from other animals? Among other things, our chins do. That piece of bone sticking out from your jaw is somewhat of a mystery - one that's inspired a diversity of wild theories to explain its purpose, according to a paper published this month in Evolutionary Anthropology. The author of the paper dismisses a number of these explanations, such as the possibility that the chin serves as a sexual signal (such traits usually only appear in one sex - like the mane of a male lion). Another proposal is that the chin acts to protect your throat - an idea the paper's author also shoots down, because for this to be a substantial advantage, humans would have to be constantly punching each other in the face. So the mystery rem ...
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duddy |
8 years ago |
Watch how the human face develops in the womb
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Here's an astonishing video of the face as it forms in the womb and how all the pieces eventually come together to create a recognizable human face, taken from scans of a real baby developing.
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duddy |
8 years ago |
Some people simply get away with more because of their look
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Which of these faces looks more trustworthy to you? Science says that some people just get away with more stuff, because they have more trustworthy looking faces. A trustworthy face, as psychologists have determined over years of research in this area, has two major characteristics: The eyebrows are slightly lifted, so that together, they form a kind of upside-down V shape; likewise, the corners of the mouth are also lifted slightly. An untrustworthy face, on the other hand, is the opposite: The eyebrows point slightly downward, forming a V shape, and the corners of the mouth are turned down a bit, too. Source: http://nymag.com/scienceofus/2015/01/some-faces-just-get-away-with-stuff.html ...
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duddy |
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