Another attempt to explain the mystery of why people yawn: “A thermal window for yawning in humans: Yawning as a brain cooling mechanism,” Jorg J.M. Massen [pictured here], Kim Dusch, Omar Tonsi Eldakar, Andrew C. Gallup, Physiology & Behavior, epub 2014. (Thanks to @ThatNeilMartin for bringing this to our attention.) The authors, at the University […]
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British tortoise-yawn-contagion researcher discusses prize
The BBC reports: Is yawning among tortoises contagious? A Nobel prize may be the most sought after gong in the scientific world, but a lecturer from the University of Lincoln has picked up the next best thing. Dr Anna Wilkinson has won an Ig Nobel prize, to honour achievements that first make people laugh and then […]