Microblog Memes

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A place to share screenshots of Microblog posts, whether from Mastodon, tumblr, ~~Twitter~~ X, KBin, Threads or elsewhere.

Created as an evolution of White People Twitter and other tweet-capture subreddits.

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Please put at least one word relevant to the post in the post title.
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submitted 4 months ago by BonesOfTheMoon to c/microblogmemes

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3534187/#:~:text=By%20lowering%20brain%20temperature%20and,and%20attention%2C%20thereby%20antagonizing%20sleep.

By lowering brain temperature and maintaining thermal homeostasis, the thermoregulatory theory suggests that instead of prompting sleep, yawning actually serves to maintain focus and attention, thereby antagonizing sleep.

So not concrete but it is one of the prevailing theories for one of the reasons we yawn