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You would think this wouldn't be too hard, that we would simply have the ability to take this fundamental information that we're learning about how it is that basic biology teaches us about the causes of disease and build a bridge across this yawning gap between what we've learned about basic science and its application, a bridge that would look maybe something like this, where you'd have to put together a nice shiny way to get from one side to the other.
This phenomenon is known as contagious yawning.
Our first physiological hypothesis states that contagious yawning is triggered by a specific stimulus, an initial yawn.
Scientists discovered this empathetic response to yawning while testing the first hypothesis we mentioned, fixed action pattern.
Following this research, other studies on humans and primates have also shown that contagious yawning occurs more frequently among friends than strangers.
In fact, contagious yawning starts occurring when we are about four or five years old, at the point when children develop the ability to identify others' emotions properly.
Still, while newer scientific studies aim to prove that contagious yawning is based on this capacity for empathy, more research is needed to shed light on what exactly is going on.
And are you yawning right now?
All of this brings us to the yawning archway of the altar wall, where we see Michelangelo's Last Judgment, painted in 1534 after the world had changed again.
What if I was to tell you that in the 12th century, some troubadours didn't see yawning as caused by tiredness or boredom like we do today, but thought it a symbol of the deepest love?
guessing the password for an email account) AND yawning uncontrollably (thought I must have misread the 1hr 50min running time as it seemed to drag on for 3 hours 50 minutes).
It's not the worst western ever made, but prepare for some serious yawning.
The Spanish-speaking audience around me was yawning and rapidly losing patience, and some of the commentaries I overheard was whether the members of the Spanish Academy had taken drugs before choosing the film for the Oscar contest.
The truth to the matters (the mystery as to who's doing the killing) is learned too soon, leaving only the family unknowing and the viewer yawning during the unexciting finale (featuring a discovery in a basement and running around the house), like if this made-for-TV thing suddenly remembered it was supposed to be a horror film.
Yes, I couldn't stop yawning, nor could my partner.
You may find yourself looking at a screen filled with intensity that you do not fathom... and yawning, wonder what all the excitement is about.
When he is yawning or grunting when he is fighting you hear the actor's voice.
I sat glued to the screen, riveted, yawning, yet keeping an attentive eye.
It was very tiring and unbelievable and at a certain point I found myself sighing and yawning all the time.
Total rubbish!! Five people watched this movie at the same time and there wasn't one single laugh to be heard, lots of yawning though.
During the projection there was yawning all around the cinema which just corroborates my short review.
After about half an hour I began sighing, yawning, rolling my eyes, cursing the reviewer at the radio station, and hoping that it would be over soon.
the part where he falls down the mountain had me yawning.
Since I was over the shock of Jerry Springer's show a long time ago, I had the same reaction I had to Andrew Dice Clay's obscene nursery rhymes; not laughter, just yawning.
the movie is far more sophisticated and intelligent is its exploration of sexual tension than such American attempts as 9 and a half weeks...the courtroom scene itself...with the couple copulating in the cage while the heroine pleads for their orgasm...is amazing...I have not seen this movie in 20 years...but it made indelible pictures in my mind...it is rich in texture and successful in creating a world where sex is the engine for all activity, and at its bottom is the yawning angst that lives in us all....the plot is European, and it meanders a bit, but so does life...especially when you are 17 and have a constant hard on....
Kept me yawning through the first two thirds.
Well, I was born in Belfast in 1960 and lived there till 1982, and I can tell you that when you were yawning at the news about people being murdered, tortured, kidnapped, beaten, burned out of their homes, intimidated and imprisoned without trial, the people I lived among were going through it.
Scare elements left me yawning (literally).
I found myself yawning and looking at the clock.
Broken English completely failed to grab my attention as by the middle of the film, I was actually yawning and counting the number of tiles on the ceiling.
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