Not to eat!
But that annoying stuff you’re using Q-tips
to remove serves the important purpose of lubricating, cleaning,
and protecting your ears from infection.
It’s as much as 50 percent fat, coating the ear and catching dust and debris—
keeping your ears healthy, even if it looks gross.
While many animals produce tears as lubricants for their eyes,
humans are the only ones who cry as an emotional response.
Dr. Thomas Dixon, director of the Centre for the History of Emotions
at Queen Mary, University of London, suggested
that tears serve a social purpose for humans and that,
“Even for those who think they really are just weeping for nobody apart from themselves,
it’s still a sort of performance.
You’re showing yourself things have really got bad, or whatever it might be.
While there is some debate about which of your muscles is the strongest,
your gluteus maximus happens to be your largest.
These muscles, which help keep your body upright
and move your hips and thighs have to work against gravity
when you’re walking uphill or up stairs—
and provide comfortable padding when you sit.
The pinkie seems unassuming, but it’s crucial for your hand strength—
helping the thumb to pinch and giving more power to the ring, middle, and index fingers. Laurie Rogers, hand therapist at National Rehabilitation Hospital in Washington,
told the New York Times that losing your pinkie would mean,
“You’d lose 50 percent of your hand strength, easily.”
Potentially many more, actually. While we have sight, smell, touch, taste, and hearing,
humans also have “proprioception” (sense of space)
and “nociception” (sense of pain).
There’s also “equilibrioception” (sense of balance),
“thermoception” (sense of temperature in and around the body),
“temporal perception” (sense of time), and more, depending on who you ask.
So The Sixth Sense might need a new title.
Researchers have found that sitting and looking downward
will make it easier to recall negative memories
while sitting upright and looking upward makes it easier
to recall positive, empowering memories.
And for some great ways to stay positive,
here are the 25 Best Instant Mood Boosters!