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It’s important to mess with the spiritual structure of the world — the architecture of ideas, institutions, identities and even the structure of filmmaking. Only by doing this can the ludicrous nature of the game be revealed. Maybe one day we will overcome our repulsion toward weakness and admit our fragility on a daily basis. On that day Tim and Eric will no longer be unsettling, but until then, in a very twisted way, they’re helping us get there.
Tim and Eric’s Comedy of Repulsion - Salon.com
March 2nd!!!!!
What was more interesting was how no one else we spoke to, even people within Barça who had watched him grow up, seemed to have any personal anecdotes about him either. We kept trying to get at the person off the pitch, only to find that there really wasn’t one. So dominant was Messi’s single-minded dedication to his sport that it was, quite literally, all anyone could talk about.
100 million cooties! I say no thanks.
From my book The Science of Kissing! Have questions? Message me and I’ll choose some to answer here…
1. Human lips are different from those of all other animals because they are everted, meaning that they purse outward.
2. But we are not the only species to engage in kissing-like behaviors. Great apes press their lips together to express excitement, affection, or reconciliation.
3. Being close enough to kiss helps our noses assess compatibility. In a landmark study in Switzerland it was reported that women prefer the scents of men whose immunity-coding genes are different from their own. Mixing genes that way may produce offspring with a stronger immune system.
4. Dopamine, a neurotransmitter associated with feelings of desire and reward, spikes in response to novel experiences, which explains why a kiss with someone new can feel so special.
5. In some people, a jolt of dopamine can cause a loss of appetite and an inability to sleep, symptoms commonly associated with falling in love.
6. Dopamine is produced in the ventral tegmental area of the brain, the same region affected by addictive drugs like cocaine.
7. In men, a passionate kiss can also promote the hormone oxytocin, which fosters bonding and attachment.
8. The exchange of saliva could provide a reproductive advantage for males. During an open-mouthed kiss, a man passes a bit of testosterone to his partner. Over weeks, and months, repeated kissing could enhance a females libido, making her more receptive to sex.
9. Evolutionary-psychologists have discovered that men are far more likely to prefer sloppy tongue kisses than women.
10. One milliliter of saliva contains about a 100 million bacteria.
ha, my mom always makes fun of me cause my urdu sounds like that. Not that I’m saying that kind of stuff to my mom. but yeah, my urdu sucks.
These would make awesome letter openers, if I still got letters. I do want to start a gang and call it the skeleton club. Whose in? Even got some sweet gang signs to adopt on page 228.
Great. I read this right as I’m applying to biomedical PhD programs.
My only new year’s resolution is to learn this dance. That includes fitting in them skinny jeans.
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