todayilearned 内の Art_Vandelay94 によるリンク TIL the "cheerleader effect", the theory that girls look more attractive in groups has been scientifically proven

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The theories of what we're wired for that don't make any modern sense are legion. Evolution is a very sloppy cook.

You remember when you used to jerk yourself awake with an arm flail? Latent instinct to catch yourself from falling out of a tree.

Ever snap your head up when a shadow passed over you? We used to get hunted by giant eagles.

That shit spent millions of years getting ingrained into our instincts and doesn't go away just because we learned about cows and lettuce.

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Give 'em a break, it was the '40s. The hyphen was, like, brand-new.

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Don't feed the trolls!

todayilearned 内の Art_Vandelay94 によるリンク TIL the "cheerleader effect", the theory that girls look more attractive in groups has been scientifically proven

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It's pretty impossible to explain the "why" of any brain thing (technical term), but one theory I liked is when we were tiny monkey men and we wandered into an unfamiliar area, it was pretty important to be like, "fuck, FOCUS! There could be tigers/poison/cliffs."

So our brain still treats any border or boundary, like doorways, as a mind-wipe.

And I love that theory because it works either as the most elegantly lovely theory or the most batshit nonsense theory.

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I think you are seeing pinfeathers. Feathers don't grow in like hair. They are protected by a sheath until they are fully grown. Then the bird has to chew them open, or get a friend to.

worldnews 内の anand460 によるリンク Pilot flying into Heathrow airport says 'drone hit plane'

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Because nitpicking about whether or not you insulted someone is silly. Just be a nice person, for pity's sake.

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It pleases me that we disagree. Be more civil in the future, please.

todayilearned 内の Art_Vandelay94 によるリンク TIL the "cheerleader effect", the theory that girls look more attractive in groups has been scientifically proven

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My favorite "it's actually been proven" study was the fact that we're actually wired biologically to forget what we came into a room for. It even works in simulated rooms on a computer screen.

interestingasfuck 内の mike_pants によるリンク The burial site of the world's first nuclear reactor

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These was a radiolab about this as well.

Doesn't look like the article touches on their best idea.

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