Blinking is a reflex. It happens involuntarily, but you can also make yourself blink. It takes the average person 400 milliseconds to blink, Pagan-Duran said. Most people blink somewhere between 10 and 20 times per minute, usually around 15 or 16 times, she added. However, there are some circumstances that make people blink more or less often.
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Why…by MwsR
It can hurt,
It’s unbearable for sure
The heartbreak one individual has to endure.
Sudden it can come
The very thing we find ourselves running to escape
That part of life becomes our fate.
Turning a corner
In search of relief for just a while or two
If you don’t find it soon it will tear you into.
Putting faith in things that don’t matter
Things that are useless and void
Instead of being smart and unmoved, we let ourselves stay annoyed.
Why must we let our own selves down
When we don’t need to, ever.
We can’t live like this forever.
Copyright@MwsR2020
If you think your cat is expressing her love for you when she licks you, you’re likely right. “Cats that have a relationship with one another—be it mother and child, siblings, or just friends—will groom each other as a sign of affection,” she says. “The same [is true] when your cat licks you.”
Cats groom one another. House cats’ wild relatives groom each other so that they don’t attract predators, while house cats have a maternal instinct and want to teach their kittens how to keep themselves clean. “To a cat, it doesn’t matter that you are human,” Ochoa says, and “once they have come to care for you, they will treat you the same way as any member of its group.” That includes grooming you and—in their minds, at least—teaching you how to groom yourself.
We all know—some from unfortunate experience—that male cats will spray urine to mark their territory. “But by licking you, they are also marking you as their territory,” says Ochoa. Why? “It’s a way of letting other cats know they care about you, and you belong to them,” she says.
Cats can be very empathetic. And “if your cat senses you are stressed or sick, it may lick to help calm you down or make you feel better, just like it would another cat in the wild,” says Ochoa. It’s a behavior your cat likely learned from her mother who did it to her. “By licking or rubbing their head against you, they really are showing you how much they care about you,” Ochoa says.
They say,
In time you’re going to forget about it
But,
You find you can’t
They say,
If you are having a bad day, turn it around
But,
All you feel is down
They say,
Smile so others feel better
But,
What if you are the one needing to.
They say,
Live and let live
But,
Everything that’s done impacts one another in some fashion.
They say,
If the shoe fits, wear it
But,
They don’t understand that all shoes aren’t created equal.
They say,
Who are the “they” anyway?
But,
Why do we listen if we don’t know it to be the truth?
I say
Every situation varies, every person is different
Because
That is something that I know.
By MwsR
Why…by MwsR
It can hurt,
It’s unbearable for sure
The heartbreak one individual has to endure.
Sudden it can come
The very thing we find ourselves running to escape
That part of life that becomes our fate.
Turning a corner
In search of relief for just a while or two
If you don’t find it soon it will tear you into.
Putting faith in things that don’t matter
Things that are useless and void
Instead of being smart and unmoved we let ourselves stay annoyed.
Why must we let our own selves down
When we don’t need to, ever.
We can’t live like this forever.
In leu of it being National Suicide Awareness Day…
Jake Rossen
© iStock.com/tomasworks The Reason Why We Pour Milk Over Cereal
Sometimes, if a movie or television show wants to communicate how unusual a character is, they’ll depict them pouring a box of cereal into a bowl and then adding some kind of disgusting liquid—orange juice, water, coffee, possibly alcohol. This is an easy way to illustrate someone’s eccentricity because everyone knows only milk goes in cold cereal. With no exceptions. Even warm milk, which a small number of individuals enjoy, has to be more palatable than the alternatives.
But is milk the acceptable choice for cereal because it’s the best, or because of something else? Is there a reason we don’t simply drown Frosted Flakes in water and call it a day?
The state of our cereal bowls can be traced to the origins of cereal itself. Back in the mid-1800s, Americans were enjoying very hearty breakfasts of bacon, eggs, meat, and other foods that could easily show up on their dinner plates. Many complained of gastrointestinal upset, a condition that health experts (many of them self-appointed) began to refer to as dyspepsia. This ill-defined malady was thought to be the result of consuming massive meals in the morning. Advocates argued that breakfast should be lighter and healthier, comprised of what they considered simple and easily digestible foods.
One such proselytizer was James Caleb Jackson, a vegetarian who ran a sanitarium called Our Home on the Hillside in Dansville, New York. At the time, sanitariums for health were considered retreats and a way to adopt healthier eating and exercise habits. Jackson was a follower of Reverend Sylvester Graham, the inventor of graham crackers and a man who believed the crackers could help curb sexual appetites that flamed in the meat-eating population. In the 1870s, Jackson began to market a product he called granula—graham flour that was baked, crumbled, and baked a second time. The tiny pebbles of flour were hearty and filling.
There’s some debate over whether it was Jackson or his mother, Lucretia, who actually came up with granula. In her son’s newsletters dating back to 1867, Lucretia published recipes for what amounted to the same thing. But whichever Jackson came up with it, there was a problem: Eaten dry, the granula was like trying to swallow construction rubble. In the newsletter, Lucretia cautioned that the cereal had to be soaked in milk or warm water, presumably to make it palatable. Other accounts of granula have consumers soaking it in milk overnight in order to make it chewable. People sometimes referred to it as “wheat rocks.”
Granula developed a following, but it wasn’t until another sanitarium owner named John Harvey Kellogg mimicked the recipe that it truly caught on. Kellogg, who owned the Battle Creek Sanitarium in Battle Creek, Michigan, offered granula for its purported health benefits but referred to it as granola to avoid any legal entanglements with Jackson. By 1889, Kellogg was selling two tons of granola a week. By 1903, more than 100 cereal companies were operating out of Battle Creek. Kellogg, of course, became famous for his far more appealing Corn Flakes (which he invented because he thought they would curb masturbation).
Even as cereal became more processed and softer, the tendency to soak it in milk never left the public consciousness. Milk was the perfect way to add moisture to the dry food without turning it into a completely soggy mess. Like cereal, milk was also synonymous with health, full of vitamins and calcium. In a 1922 newspaper ad for Corn Flakes, Kellogg’s exhorted the wonders of the combination, offering that:
“With cold milk and luscious fresh fruit, Kellogg’s are extra delightful—so crisp, and appetizing.”
One scientific study published in the Journal of Food Science in 2011 even found that the fat in milk attached itself to the surface of cereal, helping to ward off moisture and keep cereal crunchier for longer than if it were immersed in water.
Of course, milk is no longer required to soften the bricks Lucretia and John Jackson were peddling. Culturally, we’re still predisposed to keeping milk and cereal part of a two-hand breakfast option. Had Lucretia advocated for coffee, orange juice, or something else, things might have turned out differently. And much soggier.
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