 1778-1783 ii.jpg)
Did it make you yawn?
We'll take a tally.
- Log in to post comments
More like this
It's been a pretty long stressful week around here, and not just because of Pepsipocalypse and the resulting fallout. But, well, I'm back, and I have an awesome paper to tell you about. When I saw it I just KNEW it had to be blogged.
Mythbuster Adam Savage sets the yawning in motion in Mythbusters…
Tonight's mystery is a straight-up Name That Bug:
From central Florida, the mystery insect
One point for picking the order, two points for family, five points for genus, and five points for species. [added in edit- you've got to be first in any one category].
And guess what? We've finally decided…
Births
1850 - Woldemar Voigt, German physicist
1853 - Wilhelm Ostwald, German chemist and Nobel laureate
1877 - Frederick Soddy, British chemist and Nobel laureate
Deaths
1764 - Nathaniel Bliss, English Astronomer Royal
1832 - Franz Xaver, Baron Von Zach, Austrian astronomer
2004 - Joan Oró,…
Dogs may be known for their skills at catching sticks, but new research shows that are just as adept at catching our yawns. The result probably comes as no surprise to dog-owners but it's the first time that it's ever been demonstrated under experimental conditions.
Yawning is famously contagious…
Nope, but that's weird because I'll sometimes READ the word yawn and I'll feel the urge to stretch out my arms and open wide.
Yes.
me, no. My wife, yes.
yep, and almost instantly
No - I thought he was yelling.
Nope, I thought he was screaming too.
Nope, I saw it as screaming.
When you _wrote_ that it was a yawn, I could feel a proto-yawn forming. Easily surpressed, but more than the sculpture did.
No. I didn't realize it was supposed to be a yawn until I read the caption (a similar response as that described by Stephen).
For me even after I knew it was supposed to be a yawn it looked a bit more like a scream.
Odd. I felt an incipient desire to yawn and unconsciously grabbed the cold cup of coffee sitting next to the keyboard. Tasted good, but there was something solid and small in it. I thought it might be a crumb of cookie or donut or something, but I hadn't had any with this cup. Turned out to be a drowned housefly. Never did get around to the yawn, what with all those interrupts.
Nope, I knew it was a yawn and didn't yawn.
It is to artsy for me to register as a human being that is yawning. So no I did not yawn. However yes, I do yawn if other people yawn. I think because he is bald that it doesn't do if for me either. Oh and the swarthy complexion.
Exactly what Stephen said
not at first - i saw it as a scream - but reading "yawn" made me
Yep.
=============================
Total Lunar Eclipse, from my Altadena Garden
=============================
.
.
.
UNDER THE ORANGE
GARDEN, ORANGE TREE, ECLIPSE
ORANGE MOON: CRICKETS!
.
.
.
.
.
4:00 A.M.
28 Aug 2007
Yep.
Yes. It's early, and I'm tired though.
Yes - as mentioned by others, I thought he was screaming at first, but once I read the caption, looking at him made me yawn. interesting.
nope.
Didn't make me yawn. Even though I'm kinda sleepy right now. Until I read the caption I thought it was part of some weird new chess set.
Nope.
FWIW: I didn't even feel the urge to yawn until I read your question: "Did it make you yawn?"
(In fact, at first glance I thought the person was yelling, then I noticed the eyes were closed)
Nope. Thought he was screaming, realized it was yawn, still no yawn even after lots and lots of thinking about it and even writing 'yawn' several times.
Didn't I read recently (New Scientist?) that yawning is induced by warm brains/heads? No explanation why it's communicable.
Tom
http://wow-really.blogspot.com
Nope, and strangely so. I've been up for 26 hours...
It gave me the urge, but then I had to force it to completion.
No. I thought it was a scream.
The action represented by the bust, that is.
Not that it wasn't funny.
Much the above: thought it was a scream, read that it was a yawn and started to yawn. Weird!
No. Reading about yawning made me want to yawn, but I still haven't yawned. Perhaps if I'd read this in the evening I would have been more inclined to yawn. I definitely yawn when my husband yawns. Perhaps a screen image of a piece of sculpture requires too much interpretation, and our minds are preoccupied with deciphering what's happening, or evaluating the quality of the sculpting, or wondering who this is, or why anyone would sculpt a yawn, or why we're all sitting here spending time scratching our heads over this picture of a sculpture.
Must clean house now.
"Oh here I go again," I said to myself when the page opened and I saw the upper half of the statue's mouth, "I'm gonna...[yawn]!"
No.
dude, it totally did. HA!
i scrolled down past the picture and was yawning as i did, before i read the caption...ha!
no. I thought he was yelling, but after I read the subtext, I had a sudden urge to yawn.
Amazing article, thank You !!