viernes, 25 de junio de 2010

Paris, City of Yawn


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The first international conference on Yawning just opened yesterday in Paris. Is it a symbol, the symptom of a sleeping city ? We didn't assist the speeches in order to stay safe from boredom but some of the content looked actually quite interesting :
The Theory of the Hidden Sexuality of the Yawn and the Future of Chasmology, by Wolter Seuntjens.
Punishment-induced fear modifies the daily course of yawning in rats, by Alejandro Moyaho.
Yawning and Menstrual cycle, by Shah Sweni.
And last by not least: Phenomenology of Yawning, by Olivier Walusinski and Pierre Ansay.

It is said that in 1508, Erasmus wrote: "One man's yawning makes another yawn." The French proverbialized the idea to "Un bon bâilleur en fait bâiller sept." Sometimes we wish good ideas could be as contagious...

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