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Are you just being polite?

Are you just being polite?  Evolutionary psychologists say finely tuned expressions may derive from our early ancestors’ need to communicate quickly, wordlessly. A grimace might say, “Run! There’s a dangerous creature here!”A nose wrinkled in disgust would signal, “Don’t eat this. It’s rotten!” [When anthropologists] found that people in different ethnic groups all identified photographs

How You Know You’ve Been On A Seabird Island For Too Long:

The researchers on Stratton gather up all the jettisoned balls found along the beach and created “ball buddies” to send out to the other interns on each of the Project Puffin seabird islands. The seven islands monitored by Project Puffin are scattered from Casco Bay to the Penobscot Bay. Interns rotate between islands in order