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Sunday, April 12, 2020

Twitter Thread: The Human Body's Evolutionary Leftovers

Awesome, our bodies are like natural history museums. Apparently, we're brimming with evolutionary leftovers, and Dorsa Amir mapped out a way to play around with some of these in a fun Twitter thread.

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Text - Dorsa Amir @DorsaAmir · 1d Did you know the human body is full of evolutionary leftovers that no longer serve a purpose? These are called vestigial structures and they're fascinating. (1/8) O 512 2721K 48.8K

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Text - Dorsa Amir @DorsaAmir · 1d Replying to @DorsaAmir Put your hand flat on a surface and touch your pinky to your thumb. Do you see a raised band in your wrist? That there's a vestigial muscle called the palmaris longus. It used to help you move around the trees. About 14% of us don't even have this muscle anymore. (2/8) present absent

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Wildlife - Dorsa Amir @DorsaAmir · 1d Replying to @DorsaAmir Check out your ear. Do you see this little bump? That's called Darwin's tubercle. It used to help you move your ears around. Now that we have super-flexible necks, we don't need these anymore. (3/8)

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Joint - Dorsa Amir @DorsaAmir · 1d Replying to @DorsaAmir Here's a more obvious one: the tailbone. This is the ghostly remainder of our lost tails, which were useful for balance & movement in trees. We still grow tails as embryos, but then attack and destroy them in the following weeks. Not the most efficient system. (4/8)

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Eye - Dorsa Amir @DorsaAmir · 1d Replying to @DorsaAmir Ever wonder what this little pink thing in your eye is? This is the plica semilunaris. It used to be a third eyelid that would blink horizontally. You can see this in action in the eyes of many other animals. (5/8) plica semilunaris

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Text - Dorsa Amir @DorsaAmir · 1d Replying to @DorsaAmir Oh, and you know how you sometimes get goosebumps when you're cold or scared? That's a vestigial reflex that used to raise body hair to make you appear bigger or trap an extra layer of heat for warmth. Some people can actually do this on purpose. (6/8)

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Text - Dorsa Amir @DorsaAmir · 1d Replying to @DorsaAmir Another cool reflex is the palmar grasp reflex. If you place your finger on an infant's palm (or feet!), they will try to grasp it. Ancestral primate babies would have used this to grasp on to their parents for transport. (7/8)

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Text - Dorsa Amir @DorsaAmir · 1d Replying to @DorsaAmir These are just a few pieces of evolutionary baggage handed down to you from your primate ancestors, among others. Your body is basically a natural history museum! (8/8)

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Neighbors Ruin Family's Fence, Dad Installs Concrete Fence, Cars Get Wrecked

Dad took the kind of pro revenge that goes down history, and really deserves a spot in the hall of fame for pro revenges. Sounds like the neighbors were being troublemakers, so dad decided to install a concrete fence. That's a rock hard revenge if we've ever seen one.

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Text - r/ProRevenge + JOIN u/MihaM12 · 1y 1 1 3 2 Neighbors ran over our fence. Dad installed concrete fence that wrecked 8 of their cars. I saw your crazy neighbor stories and now I bring you my father's that stuck in my memory. English is not my first language and I hope I didn't make many spelling mistakes. TI;dr at bottom

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Text - We live in a small private neighborhood, the neighbors are related to us more or less (distant relatives). Everybody here is a complete nutjob. They were constantly arguing over decades before me or my brother were even born. Our property line is kinda like a square and it is surrounded by road from two sides. Keep in mind that on one part of the road we let our neughbors use 1 square meter of the land so they could use the road safer and not damage our property This is cruicial informati

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Text - The truck driver runs over our fence. Nobody wanted to pay for the damage. Our fence is made out of multiple bushes, trees and a little bit of metal fence too. These plants were now completely destroyed and a part of metal fence completely bent. We had to replant these plants and place a new metal fence. My father told me this was not the first time this happend but actually third. I couldn't believe it when I heard this. So this is where the revenge begins. My father is a police officer

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Text - He dug up the property line marker and placed plastic barrels filled with rocks on our property. In the next 6 hours 3 of our neighbors came knocking on the door because they hit our plastic barrels filled with rocks. They were angry and wanted to call the cops. But they never did. Because everybody knew that little part of land was still our property. One neighbor in particular treathened my dad that he will throw a fucking pickaxe at my father's back. Over the period of 1 year these nei

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Text - My dad was furious and he changed his petty revenge into a prorevenge. He cut some wood to use it as a mold. He bought cement, sand and metal poles. One peaceful afternoon my father and I cemented that whole part of the land and placed some lovely flovers on top. So when they hit the concrete they can smell our flowers of victory/defeat. As we expected. 5 neighbors in total wrecked their cars on the new fence and nobody came knocking on the door. Tl:dr Neighbors ran over our fence. Did no

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Garbage Moments that Belong on Trash Island

Trashy, selfish and antisocial behavior can come from anywhere. A boss, a landlord, a neighbor or even a loved one can engage in trashy behavior for almost no reason. Here are people who needlessly made life worse for the people around them. These are trashy moments that belong on garbage island.

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Text - Confessions from UC Berkeley ... 1882. I'm financially not the same as my boyfriend, and it's beginning to bother me. My family makes triple his family, my MOM is a position six ranks higher at the same company as his DAD, I'm coming here to Cal on OOS tuition, he's at the state school getting financial aid. We own seven properties, his family has two. And that's just our families. I work and make quite a bit of money, so l've been able to buy him upscale gifts, but he only bought me a $3

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Face - Missouri Walmart Coronavirus Licker Charged With "Terrorist Threat' by Doyle Murphy on Mar 24, 2020 14:55 PM I'm a nasty moths fucker!!!

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Skin - Anyone knows how to remove this thing? Pay

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Text - ITHE STARK News · Canada 'We're hustlers': Amid coronavirus fears, this couple has made more than $100,00o reselling Lysol wipes By DOUGLAS QUAN VANCOUVER BUREAU Thu., March 12, 2020 II

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Supermarket - Mollback Rolback 74 Unbeatable $1 50 78

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Font - Couple are furious when told they're not allowed to buy 552 CANS of Mountain Dew due to coronavirus rationing at Kroger store in Kentucky By Adry Torres For Dailymail.com Updated at 2:08 AM on 21 March 2020 +6 5.2k 599 commentS shares • A couple visiting a supermarket in Louisville, Kentucky, on Tuesday attempted to purchase 23 cases of Mountain Dew

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Telephone booth - Porta-Potty Peeper .. Luke Chrisco was arrested after he hid in the tank of a portable toilet to perve on female yoga enthusiasts. Source: The Daily Telegraph

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Architecture - 1 hr · O "Goodwill is closed because of a pandemic? But what do I do with my stuff?" Just leave it in your closet for a few weeks, woooow ReusoRa 2 Comments 7 Shares

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Room - Florida has the greatest church food banks, we have gone to four a week for 15 months. We have enough food, paper goods and the most awesome new food pantry. Enough food for five people to last two years. Compleats ANWICH mps ANS TO CESTA +4 16 57 Comments

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Text - March 10, 2020 We are monitoring the cameras hourly to see who is coming into this restroom and smearing ketchup all around the toilets if you are caught you will face consequences.

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Transport - Pennsylvania grocery store out more than $35,000 after woman intentionally coughs on food by Jarrod Clay AA Wednesday, March 25th 2020 VIEW ALL PHOTOS A grocery store in Hanover Township, Pa. says a woman, who the police know to be a chronic problem in the community, purposely coughed on fresh produce and a small section of its bakery, meat case and grocery section. (Gerrity's Supermarkets) Organic

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Supermarket - Reeses THE MEMORY Ang ENICKERS Kek MUNCH Pess ENICKERS 13 MikyWa Save money. Live bet

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Text - 1 hr • 0 Just answered the door to the dominoes guy who as if I was someone called Gemma ]! So I said yeah and bagged myself a free pizza ! Happy days ! *** admin edit*** We only allowed this post so the original purchaser or the pizza could be found. They are now in contact with dominos. 49 88 comments • 2 shares Emma This was was mine.. £30 down 45 m Like Reply View 17 more replies... PM'd

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Car - Smashing People's Androids, Then Giving Them iPhones

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Face - O NATIONAL POST Ontario teacher's licence suspended for two months after telling student to 'lick me where I fart'

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Human - Daily Mail Daily Mail 4 h. 0 'I tested positive for Coronavirus' DAILY MAIL Influencer who filmed himself licking toilet bowl says he's now in hospital with coronavirus O Gosto Comentar A Partilhar 11,3 m

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Sky - So I ordered a so called N95 mask about a week back with "guaranteed 48 hour delivery" not only did the order come late which is completely understandable considering the current situation but they sent me bra cups attached with elastic which are stapled on and call it a N 95 mask which should be called as a N34 Mask. I am laughing at it now but I was furious initially. Prate

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Textile - NEWGATE Tarmerrwe A #SUPERMARKETS Fury as stockpilers throw away mountains of food bought in panic-buyer supermarket frenzy OVIS HOVIS SENSATIC Soft W

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Owner Responds To Absurd Review Of His Auto Shop

There's just no pleasing some people.

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Text - Local Guide 14 reviews 2 photos *a year ago Be Aware!! I recently changed the starter here. They told me $780 first, as a student couldn't afford that. It's 1/5 value of my car. They brought it down to $700 with an $30 oil change value which I initially appreciated it as I borrowed some money from my friend and couldn't come up with more. I thought that was a good deal as they helped" me, I made some phone calls after I agreed to change and guess what was quoted $580 at express oil change

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Text - We got your car in immediately ahead of all appointments. We diagnosed the starter issue and had a discussion with you. You wanted a new starter (not remanufactured) and it needed to be done as fast as possible because you had to get back on the road to Texas by 3:00 PM. I offered a remanufactured unit and a new unit, you still opted for the new unit at the higher price point. After we had started the disassembly. you came back to me and asked us to stop because you weren't able to get th

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Text - I am not sure what I could have done better for you in this situation. Your actual requirements were: 1) the highest quality part available 2) as fast as possible 3) the cheapest price in town. In nearly all cases, it is impossible to accomplish all of this. Interestingly enough, we DID do it for you. Let's not forget, I accepted a payment option that I have no idea how I am going to get the funds out of, I left the shop in my personal car to pick-up your starter because there was an acci

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Tumblr Thread Says Movies Fuel Unrealistic Physical Standards

This Tumblr thread called out the impacts of movies in terms of fueling unrealistic physical standards, when it comes to fitness. It addresses how bodybuilding culture can manifest in convincing people that they should look a certain way (or that it'd be nice to), when in fact those very images are of folks that are sometimes severely dehydrated.

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Product - The actor has joined the debate about objectification in TV and film, saying bo genders are judged equally on looks Source G the-critical-feminist My god I love her.

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Text - cruxofargon I know people are gonna get salty af about this but by God she's RIGHT. When Brad Pitt did Fight Club, he was cutting weight for every single scene to maintain his physique at 155. I've you've ever cut weight, you know how horrible that must have been. He did it because they needed a "look". Changing Tatum said his Magic Mike body doesn't last for more than five days. He starved down and dehydrated his already fit physique for a "look". The male soldiers on Spartacus: Blood an

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Text - eldritchgentleman You want proof? Just check out that scene in Captain America: First Avenger where Cap just transformed into that beautiful beefcake of a man. Agent Carter's actress just HAD to touch them muscles, it was completely unscripted. eric-coldfire Chris Evans had to wear shirts so small they physically hurt, and he dislocated a shoulder during the helicopter scene in Civil War. But who cares, girls got to wet their panties watching Captain America flex. guyveranimefan87 If we a

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Human - Yeah, he is ripped, isn't he? Well, it is true, but to get that kind of definition, he went through 36 hour period of dehydration, which caused him to temporarily lose 10 pounds of "water weight".

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Text - Thus during the fight scene he was filming, he was a hair breadth from blacking out whole time, just to look unrealistically muscular. As he said during interview with Steven Colbert, "If You go three days without water, You will die. Then, when You are halfway there they shout 'Roll it!" It's the same with professional bodybuilders who get into periods of extreme fasting and dehydration to lower their fat-to-muscle ratio to inhuman levels, all in hopes of making their muscle definition a

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Bodybuilding - . But only when he partakes in competitions, since it is not humanly possible to live with such low fat percentage of one's body for longer periods of time. I mean, yeah, he keeps a draconian training regime, as well as a very strict diet even off-season, but looks much more human then..

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Bodybuilding - There are documented cases of incredibly fit and muscular bodybuilders fainting on the stage in the middle of their flexing routines, as well as several who outright died, because of cardiac arrest caused by their blood becoming too thick, due to long dehydration.. And let's not forget about Muscle Dysmorphia, colloquially known as "Megarexia" or "Bigarexia". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muscle dysmorphia Yeah, it's a thing, but it's barely talked about, since it's apparently not

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Text - fierceawakening I had no idea that most people who looked like this are dehydrated until I read posts like this. brunhiddensmusings dehydrated to the point theyre about a day away from actual organ failure okay so chris hemsworth is a absolute god of a man, but hollywood says 'thats not good enough' and for the thor movie he has to spend several days having the juice squeezed from his body untill he looses about a gallon of whats supposed to be him so that he can do 2 days of shooting sce

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Text - wodneswynn Man, when I was like 16 I got so sick of being made fun of for being the fat kid that I took an axe down inna woods, chopped down a tree, and started doing log-lifts all the time. I got strong as fuck, but I didn't lose no weight. I actually got bigger. Same thing happened when I got into fighting. I got even stronger, and I got *fast", man, and nimble, like a cat. Still chubby. Body-builiding culture is a bunch of crap, my dude. Functional muscle is not necessarily toned or le

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Text - systlin You know, I train with (martial arts) a bunch of dudes, and a few bodybuilders have showed up over the years. And every damn one of those huge shredded motherfuckers has the endurance of a fucking newbom puppy. Fifteen minutes into warmups and they're panting for air like like they're about to die. I've sparred them and every one of them telegraphs their moves about two weeks in advance, and are slower than my dead grandpa because their huge useless muscles get in the damn way. No

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Arm - No abs to speak of, a bit of a tummy, and those motherfuckers can pick up one of the weightlifters and throw them. And they're fast. Like, unfair fast. Bodybuilding culture is bullshit. Embrace your status as a giant barbarian and if anyone gives you crap throw them off a mountain. glitterandgoo i love and support all strong, fat people

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