Those of us who have dogs may have noticed how they will yawn in the
middle of their excitement if we talk to them before putting down their
food bowl.

People also yawn if we delay them in some way, for example if their
story is delayed while we laboriously recount our own.

Well, sparrows do the same! When I feed the sparrows I first tap the
window, when they usually fly closer. If I delay too long and wave at
them, and shake the bread before throwing it, they yawn at me!
... in reflection upon these novel observations, I suspect that the
wealth of knowledge in anecdote and personal observation vastly exceeds
the sum of knowledge of the integrated texts of science.

"J Jones" aol.com> wrote in message
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Naturally. No one in the sparrow kingdom has to live up to intellectual
expectations. The intellect is, by nature, a searching entity. It is futile
to try to direct it to the source of its own existence.

On Apr 3, 5:15 pm, J Jones aol.com> wrote:

why the distain towards "science"? you just recorded some of your own
scientific like findings.

"science" defends you more so than any religion. because you dislike
some aspects shouldn't lead you to pushing the whole notion away.
trying living in some hard line religious culture.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8KPwCD8IObY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-407WdYB2go

etc..

On Apr 3, 5:15 pm, J Jones aol.com> wrote:

Ok i think i misunderstood what you were saying. Yes i agree to some
degree. Although the texts build upon the texts so really more
knowledge is produced by each generation looking to the previously
recorded findings.

On Apr 3, 2:15 pm, J Jones aol.com> wrote:

Yawning releases tension. Believe it or not, yawning can help you
relax by stretching the muscles in your face, and increasing oxygen
intake. Yawn loudly and stretch your arms several times a day.

Feel irritable and tired, yawn a lot or swallow without real need.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=YE5xmFAcW-U

All animals yawn (see animalyawns.com) and in humans yawning seems to
be contagious. Seeing another person yawn, or even just reading about
yawning can make you yawn. (We talk about unconscious immitation in
chapter 10 of the book). James Anderson from the University of
Stirling gave a lecture in Sheffield last week about yawning - in the
introduction he told us that when he lectures on yawning lots of
people in the audience, well, yawn. But his talk was only yawn-
inducing in the social-contaigon sense.

Yawning, it seems to me, may provide us with paradigm case of an
automatic behaviour that, moving along the phylogenetic scale, has
become co-opted into a quasi-voluntary social signal...

...Another possible function for yawning amoung primates - including
ourselves - is that it forfils a social coordination role. A way for a
group to signal to itself something like "time for bed" or "we're
bored, let's do something else now". It's not clear, however, why
yawning would take on this role, nor, indeed, is it certain that a
group of monkeys should all sleep at the same time.

http://www.mindhacks.com/blog/2004/12/the_social_yawn.html

Immortalist wrote:

On Apr 4, 11:28 am, J Jones aol.com> wrote:

turtoni wrote: