Science, the new frontier: to boldly state the bleeding obvious!
Scientists have discovered why we have eyebrows:
The researchers said the effect of eyebrow position was suggestive of a social function for the hairy tufts, and helped explain the ‘eyebrow flash’ – the convention for people to raise their eyebrows at each other from a distance in a gesture of acknowledgement.
“It may make the eye gaze direction of the sender briefly visible to the receiver. Since that eye gaze direction is at the receiver, it results in the receiver being given a brief ‘I am looking at you signal’, which would communicate recognition,” they said.
Isn’t it nice that science can give us all these clever answers to so many of life’s great mysteries? So, now we finally know: human beings developed eyebrows, so they could raise them when confronted with other humans.
Who’d have thought?! For raising, huh?
Let’s not wait for next year’s Nobel prizes. No, don’t be shy, you wonderful geniuses: you deserve it! So, here’s, from all of us, a heartfelt thanks and an admiring
A 108-year-old woman has been told she must wait at least 18 months before she receives a new hearing aid.
Mrs Beal, a former piano teacher who was involved in the suffragette movement, would be 110 by the time she gets her new hearing aid. “I could be dead by then,” she said yesterday.
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